Nowaday, Blogging is widely increasing in popularity. A lot of webmasters write blogs for either personal interests or business reasons. Also blogs(as the most popular WordPress) offer users more easier and intuitive interface and now it is very easy for everyone withi basic computer knowledges to have a BLOG. And considering the important of a reliable hosting to the success of your blog, it’s very very important to take some time to find out what hosting is the best for it.
Server Type
The most popular and powerful blog software is WordPress, an open source application developed by php and running against MySQL database. So, from techinical viewpoint, Linux web hosting solution is the best choice for your blog, and it’s relatively cheaper than a Windows one as well. Also WordPress has very intuitive and user-friendly interface. There are a lot of FREE plugins, themes. In the internet there are a lot of advices about properly webmastering!
So as conclusion, please make sure it supports php(4+) and MySQL(4+).
Disk Space
Blog software itself won’t use a lot of space (less than 10MB for WordPress). And most of the disk space are used for the post you have written, and the image or video used by your blog. Let’s plan for 2 year first, think about how many posts you can write per day, and the average size of them. After it, you can make a calculation to know the disk spaces you will need.
I checked out your website and I found it very interesting, very useful. Cheers!
Hi there, awesome site. I thought the topics you posted on were very interesting. I tried to add your RSS to my feed reader and it a few. take a look at it, hopefully I can add you and follow.
Hi Lisa,
Our rss is working correctly. We have tested also as we have created our first official widget - RSS Reader - and it uses our RSS feed as default(of course you can specify your own) - more information in our blog or in WordPress Extend Plugin