In this post we are going to analyze the keys to choosing a good hosting, because your future blogger depends on it.
By choosing the hosting we can improve or worsen such decisive factors for your blog as SEO, loading speed, availability and errors, not to mention other more complicated ones that affect compatibility. I am going to talk about hosting from experience, I have been making websites, e-commerce, blogs for more than 11 years of which I am the webmaster, I have tried hosting with many companies and I have done many experiments from which I have learned by fright. One of the clearest conclusions that I have drawn is that many projects have worked poorly or have not given everything they should have been because of the hosting, leading to losses. Besides, a bad hosting generates more work and stress since you are going to have to solve things yourself that in a slightly better hosting they do for you with all the diligence in the world.
If you need to know more about this: what is hosting or types of hosting in this post you will find all the necessary information. In this post I talk in depth about what hosting is and the different types of hosting that exist in the market, especially those dedicated to blogging and WordPress. Unfortunately, hosting is something that is not given enough attention, we are usually influenced by the price of an offer or recommendations from people who are not dedicated to web maintenance or have a simple HTML website that hardly consumes server resources. If what you want is to install WordPress
with plugins, premium template, you may put a store or forum you need a higher quality web hosting with a minimum of specific features, although I will dedicate its own article to WordPress hosting, it seems important to clarify this issue.
Not all needs are the same when hiring accommodation
If you are going to install many plugins you need to find the best possible hosting for your blog because you need better response from the server, a slow server is an enemy against your blog. Just as you should think about whether you are going to include more or less images to know the space you are going to have and the bandwidth you can consume.
It makes no sense to hire a hosting with too many features , if you are going to place the Twenty Twelve template with 3 plugins and one image per post, on the other hand, if you are as beastly as I am, then you are going to have to find a good hosting package.
How you should choose the best hosting in the world for your blog.
Sincerely, with your hand on your heart and far from your wallet, discard free hosting if you want a fast blog, have thought about optimizing to monetize or do not want to have maintenance problems, free solutions will not help you much. Low-budget options seem very average when it comes to space and features, so the reality is different.
Be clear about these two concepts of the utmost importance when choosing your web hosting:
Disk capacity: it is the space that your website can occupy on the server’s disk , this space refers to images, text, the website itself, templates, obsolete templates, email accounts…
This means that if you do not want pay more you should optimize your blog being cleaner than «mar Propper» eliminate everything you do not use and by the way you will help improve the loading speed: Consider that the email accounts you have created consume space and it is usually enough if you send images, you receive texts etc. The transfer volume: It is the amount of traffic that the server can support per month
, if by chance one day you pass by, nothing happens but if you do it more often it is possible that they recommend you change or subtly cap the traffic which is a chore.
Traffic is not just measuring visits, you can have 60 visits that consume more traffic than 500, imagine that those 60 visits download photos, view several pages, download a freebie… etc. Those visits can consume more traffic than 500 visitors. of hello and goodbye: they enter, read and leave. Think that the more you interact with your blog, the better because you will lower the bounce rate and engage the reader more, so you should monitor this parameter when hiring a suitable hosting for your blog.
It is a mistake to think of going to the hosting that gives you the most quantity, the best hosting is the one that provides the most quality, I value other services more than a space that I may need in 2022 because the blogs are still small and a transfer that I can control.
That it is a well-known hosting company is not the same as a good service.
Not all well-known hosting companies offer good quality hosting, often what they give are good prices, offers or simply advertised everywhere, but the quality of the hosting leaves much to be desired. When you compare prices between quality hosting you will see that the economic difference is quite considerable, many companies invest a lot in renewing and improving their machines (servers) and in their maintenance.
Be clear about what you are going to need, if it is WordPress, you need these minimum requirements:
The best hosting for WordPress if you are only going to need an installation (a blog) can be a specialized hosting in which installers are already configured with the correct values so that it works correctly, if they support it with a thousand times better customer service.
PHP: Version 5.2 or higher. WordPress is an application developed in php, php is a server-side programming language that has the particularity of consuming a lot of resources and working with many processes, we are going to be very powerful and need much more power than html or CSS.
MySQL: Database, you need to be able to make and access the databases They are normally managed by php My Admin and they are the places where your entries, comments, modifications are saved. Here comes the tip to rule out hosting WordPress in some hosting: The memory for the execution of php applications, there are providers that only give you 32 M, WordPress with some minimal plugins, a premium template and normal traffic with that memory could fall into a medium traffic peak, beware without having Woo commerce installed or anything. The recommended minimum is 64M or 128M if you don’t want to see my great friend the white screen of death. Access to your files through FTP, it is very important to be able to do it, many errors must be
Tips to choose the best hosting for your blog without messing it up.
Be clear about what you want to do with your blog, if you are going to set up a shop, forum, get an idea of the “size your project can reach”, sometimes we go overboard or do not meet the requirements we need. The most important thing is not the disk space but the monthly transfer capacity , but if they give you both better still, think that it may take years until you fill the disk and have to expand your hosting. If they offer you the possibility and you are a bit of a pro , always choose Linux servers , you will have better performance than with Windows servers , although they do not usually give you a choice many times. Regarding the capacity, if they offer you an SSD disk, do not think about it for them!, even if the space is a little smaller than on a normal disk, you will take better advantage of performance and speed. Choose a reliable hosting, a trick is to host it in the same company as someone you know who change of the subject in case you need a hand ask.
When thinking about your comfort choose a simple administration panel , C Panel is easier and more intuitive than Plesk, but you can find companies that have their own or other more complex ones, if you are starting better choose cPanel that there are many on it tutorials, manuals etc. Look for a host that provides customer service, especially telephone service : “iwi the unicorn speaking”, haha, I say this because it is a service that is disappearing from large companies and replaced by forms, and for asking that the service of technical attention is in your language, because honestly it is horrible to have to explain a problem of something that you do not understand that has happened with you do not know what that is called to someone who does not understand you. The forms are very competent and effective if you control enough of the subject , you also get a written response, which is very useful, but if you do not control or do not know what is really happening and you cannot explain yourself well with all the necessary terminology, you can end up with your patience and the solution may take more time.
Avoid gifts or obligations with hosting providers, a free year if etc. Try to have as much autonomy as possible in case you decide to migrate to another company. opt for companies that take care of the migration , in theory almost all of them do it, but when it comes down to it, poi. That it has Auto installer, it can be done by hand, and mayonnaise too, wash clothes you have to benefit from the progress. If you are going to work on a project that is for Spain and Europe, look for a Spanish IP to be provided because it will help you a lot to improve speed and positioning.
Other things to keep in mind when hiring the best hosting for a blog:
Being able to make subdomains or folders: Many cheap hosting service providers do not allow you the option of creating subdomains, in the case of blogs made in several languages you may need a subdomain per language or if you decide to have a subdomain for each theme it can be one task that they do not allow it, so before contracting the hosting service, be clear about what the structure of your blog will be.
Databases:
There are hosting companies that only give you the option of a database , there are times that we may need several since it is not advisable to create many tables, but it is better to create several databases than one giant.
Mail accounts: Here everyone’s nightmare, there are many companies that only let you make an account, or that have other types of limitations.
Auto installer: It is the application to install the applications in one click , in the past you had to do a series of quite cumbersome processes to install WordPress, sometimes I still do them for security reasons, but where is the wizard to install it with a stroke of the pen. Backups and security copies
I hope you do not lie brown when choosing the hosting of your blog
I hope you can choose a good hosting, although I am realistic almost everyone looks at the pocket more than sometimes the service, I am very stubborn and I think it takes me a lot of work to write so that the holster plays tricks on me.
For my projects I look for what works best for me and now I am very happy with the company that I hired a VPS to host all my websites and blogs (this one is hosted there) they give me quality, Spanish IP, they answer the phone for any questions, they made me a migration from another huge blog and it’s very well priced, if you want to take a look at it to compare it with other companies it’s Alarmed.
