How To Blog: Why Hosting Matters And When Free Is Not Good Enough

Recently I made the decision to build a website to help promote my business. This meant that I had to find a hosting company. At the time I had no idea how to choose one but I ultimately went with HostGator. This has proved to be a very good decision and I am completely satisfied with the service they have provided.

After purchasing the new account, you will receive access to a "WHM Accelerated" Control Panel. It is from here that you will be able to set up your sub accounts. I set up five different sub accounts. Each of these has their own cPanel log in, disk space quota, and bandwidth limit. I used the installation guides provided by HostGator to set up the various accounts. It was a bit of a pain to set up, but at the end I had cPanel accounts to give to each of my prospective webmasters.



First things first, if your website has a Cpanel you can access it by going to your website and then /cpanel. You will then see a log-in screen and will need to put in the user-name and password that your hosting provider gave you for your website. Once you have done this you will come to a screen with a whole lot of icons. The newest version of Cpanel has a tutorial and I would suggest using it if it is your first time using Cpanel. Between the tutorial and this guide you should end up with a good idea of the many many features you can use to enhance your website.

Hostgator had what I wanted with support and they only charge about US$9.95 per month which is super affordable with the great features they had in the plan!

This will open the Fantastico Home. On the left sidebar, there will be a list of scripts that Fantastico can install. We want to select WordPress. It will be under the "Blogs" section.



It would require a rather lengthly article to provide all the details of the differences between the 2 services. Plus, folks would need to familiarize themselves with terms like: cpanel hosting, web hosts, blog, email hosting, shared hosting, reseller hosting, domain hosting, dedicated servers, dedicated hosting, ftp hosting, domain name hosting, hosting PHP, eCommerce hosting etc. I would suggest familiarizing yourself with these terms to gain a better understanding of the web and blog hosting environments.

Now it's finally time to create your blog. This is the moment we all have been waiting for. So pay attention this may be the most difficult part of this step by step how to guide.

With website so few points, you can tell that HostGator is a great company and a trusted one as well. If you're on the fence about it, then give it a try first and when you're satisfied, only then do you sign up for a long term contract.