What's a Good Blog-Hosting Site For a Beginner?

Don't go by recommendation alone.

Good tech support - does this mean you want 24/7 phone access? There is a key for you to look for.

How many domains are you planning to host?

How much space and bandwidth do you think you'll need for the first year?

Is the host you pick easy to move out of should you need to move in a year from now?

What is your actual budget?

Is it just wordpress? Some hosts are actually optimized for this - but it's not necessarily the deciding factor.

How much time have you spent on hosting review type sites and actual forums that discuss hosting as their specialty?

You can try Luminate. They used to be called "Yahoo Webhosting". It's what i use. I love them and their tech support is amazing.

The last shared hosting I used was hostgator from years ago, it was decent at the time

I have just moved back to hostgator after some bad experiences with other hosts... so far so good..no issues.

Hostgator is popular among people and the feedback of its user is nice.

Okay; I am now towards choosing Site Ground as my webhoster, if no one has any outstanding objections on why I shouldn't use them.

For now, I am trying to host only one domain, noitartst.com, for starters, and while i hear that I'll want to trade up if I start getting more than 10,000 visitors a month, or something like that, it's good for a beginner, I hear, and it costs under $50 for a full year's package.

I couldn't find any email on SiteGround, but I could find it number, and the answered, quick enogh, though i was no hold, briefly, They off er year plans, against hostGator's three-year ones. for my savings, at under $2,000, I think I'll take Site Ground, with its smaller price, and time, commitment.

Prides itself for being good with Wordpress, too. 24/7 phone access, and in the event of transferring to another host, they say I can either do it myself downloading files, or I else can have the other company do it for me.

Seems pretty user-friendly, all-around; with reasonable diligence done, I'll order their services, on the morrow.

Thanks for your input.

Hostgator is good . you can use coupons which are available online . better not to change hosting often!

People generally recommend hostgator and for beginners i would rather prefer ipage for a few reasons.


1. I've found the quality to be as good as hostgator
2. The cost of getting started with ipage is very low compared to hostgator with them often running promos and discounts more than 80%.
3. I even get extra goodies in marketing and security that i need to be paying for in services like godaddy.

As a newbie, it involves a lot of learning, doing and re-doing, for that reason, i would prefer keeping the cost low as much as possible without compromising on the quality if possible and if given an option i would go for the one which gives me most benefits for the lowest price.

Hm...iPage, vs. SiteGround. $3.75 a month, v. $3.95. Ipage may be slightly cheaper, but at this point, I think I've done enough research,

I called up iPage, and was disconnected. I've called SiteGround three, of four times, nothing like that has happened to me. HostGator is the site-hosting bellwether, and it takes advantage of that by granting use of its commodity to a higher fee. SiteGround has a good reputation for customer service, and is cheaper, with my personal experience with them, excellent, as well.

Paralysis by analysis, no more.

SiteGround, it is.

Hm. Offers Hack Alert monitoring for the site, some twelve more dollars a year, for the service--is it worth it?

I've been using ehost for a while, of course they are not my first ones, but I like them anyway...

Blog-friendly hosting is available from a2hosting.com and ifastnet.com, plans are full of useful resources and uptime is high and SSD technology makes load speed fast.

Hey Noitartst,

I can say that I have very good experience with hostgator I do not have any problems with them then I am also using a2hosting which is too extremely good.

I moved to a2hosting from godaddy what I can say with them it is a love story if i compare my experience with godaddy.

Hostgator was also good for me. But i'm hearing bad things about them lately. I can't say for sure coz i use VPS hosting now. There's no one to call though I do everything!

Hostgator, Mochahost, Godaddy

*** Mochahost

I have used both Hostgator and Bluehost in the past. I now have 3 hosting accounts with Hostgator so...

Well, so you know,my sites not up yet, so I can't modify it, but I'm still a-rarin' to. I'm killin' time by observin', and trying to anticipate my next moves.

i've used both Host gator and AIOP - I like both , but AIOP is more personal with support

Hostgator or Bluehost all these are under Endurance International Group, Inc. (EIG), which has its technical support base center in India ( Manglore ). So you switch to any company under their brands the support will be same. Here are many of the companies which are under the Endurance brand

All Endurance International Web Hosting Brands

i love site5 and stablehost but stay away from hostgator...

You will find many good options in the offers and reviews section of webhostingtalk.com

Checkout Bluehost. Read the customer reviews.

Almost 48 hours later, after having pointed my server at my domain, I can see that my site is still not up...

So you know, it is here: My Blog

Wait a minute--did I forget the www. in the domain? If so, that would explain a lot.

Thirty-six hours later--my blog is up, after having had multiple conversations with SiteGround, and GoDaddy, with SiteGround being apparently prime in this. Finally, I called Site Ground up, and it was straightened out--should've been sooner, but oh, well.

Slow time twixt pointing server at domain, and it registering, for SiteGround--remember that.

I see you made a choice, but if you are ever in the market again, check out Nexcess. They are a great shared hosting provider for WordPress. They cost a few more dollars a month than the huge EIG companies, but you get what you pay for with great service and support. Which G

In case you are still researching, I recommend HawkHost. I have been using them since 2011 without any problems. Their support is excellent. You can get started with their hosting for around 3 or 4 bucks a month for their most basic hosting.

Namecheap also offers excellent hosting as well, aside from domain registration.

I would recommend Blue host which is sister site to host gator but the support and overall experience is much better

So far I have no issue with godaddy

Just you know, everyone, I've picked SiteGround, and they're working out, well.

If you are planning to use WordPress for your site, then i'd recommend Siteground's Managed WordPress
Hosting. They've good support and service. in case of any technical issue, they respond quickly and solve the issue.
I've been using their service for a couple of years now, and they've always provided services on time and effectively.

Highly recommendable....

I use this tmdhosting.com

I've been using cloud hosting $5 a month only :p can you believe that haha and it's fully managed with SSL certificates and advanced caching features like varnish NGNIX etc.... Don't know much about tech stuff either that is why I occur them, and they are 24 hours on even on Christmas :p search on google cloud hosting, and you will find them on the first page as well "Cloudways"

With over 1 million sites hosted on their platform, eHost.com is one of the most popular choices when it comes to hosting and managing a personal or small business website. The interface is simple and natural, allowing even the beginner site owners to put together their pages quickly and efficiently.