February 8, 2011

The Top Three

When you want to put up a blog you have two basic choices for how you want to host it, the first is a blogging service website that will set up everything for you for free and host for free. The other choice is getting your own domain, or URL, and signing up with a hosting company. There are pros and cons to each of these but let's talk about some of the better hosting sites that fall into the second option.

These are rankings based on the Consumer Rankings website.

1) Justhost.com: This company charges only $3.95 per month for hosting packages and offers a free for life option on your domain. Customer rankings on this site are all 4.5 and 5 on a scale of 5 and this is a very well known company for web hosting. Their technical support normally responds in less than an hour via email.

2) Fatcow: This company charges $5.50 a month for their hosting services and they also have a free domain registration service however it is not free for life. They use an icon-based interface in their very easy to use and learn control panel and have earned very high rankings with their customers.

3) Inmotion Hosting: The monthly charge for their services is $6.95 and they offer free domain registration services as well. This company was awarded the "Top Web Hosting Provider" by CNET and they host over 30,000 websites at the time of these ranking. The control panel used here is the very popular cPanel system, which is used by many hosting companies.

No matter what company you choose to go with when hosting your own blog you will need to download and install the blogging software yourself. Some of these hosts will offer this as a service that comes with the package so you may want to check that out as well.

The advantages to having your own domain and host includes a customized URL and you will not have to run any ads from the service provider at all, unless you want to. This means less clutter on the site for you and your readers.

Mark

PS
I did not include us in the top 3 as I will let you make your own mind up on that one :)

Posted by Mark at February 8, 2011 9:08 PM

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