Imhosted - An Affordable And Reliable Web Hosting Service

Out of anything you can think of dealing with your website, the single most important part of it is the actual web hosting you use. In offline terms, web hosting can be thought of as the building your customers enter when they visit your store. Your webpages are the aisles that showcase each product, but the web hosting company is the actual structure where everything is contained.

At this time I realised that I had to find new ways. To move into another direction than all the others webmasters did. To go beyond, to dig deeper. Innovation meant new ways to cut my costs and gain more clients. But how do you move into another direction if all the online services are meant for the main-stream? How do you get a domain name for 2$ if no company on the web goes below 4$?



Now that you've decided on your domain name, and which hosting service you're going to use, it is time to call HostGator and start the process. In case you're wondering, your website does not reside on your computer, instead it is located at HostGator. The support people at HostGator will walk you through the steps necessary to set up your website. They will take all necessary information, name, address, etc. and then ask for your domain name. They will then ask you what platform you want to use. Again, we strongly suggest you use WordPress.

HostGator will set everything up for you in thirty minutes or less. If you're concerned about the cost, don't be. A dreamhost ftp access domain name costs roughly $10 a year, and your hosting service is approximately $5 a year. That's it. I would however recommend that you upgrade to a private registration for a small additional fee. And that's it.

We recommend using HostGator for your web-host. We have been pleased with their support and their team is there for you 24/7. They are very professional, patient, and they act as though there is no such thing as a dumb question. There are other web hosts as well, such as BlueHost, DreamHost, and MediaTemple, and all of them have solid reputations.



There are alternatives. You could buy a domain and have it redirect to your sub-domain. It's an easy to remember address you can list in directories and tell your friends, it also is much more memorable. Again, disadvantages: as people will link to your redirecting .com address, you lose out any search engine ranking you could have gained by them linking to your actual address (the sub-domain).

Either way you go, remember that unlimited space shouldn't be the only draw when you pick a host or platform. Larger sites may cost a couple of dollars more per month, but their capacity and stability may be larger as well. If your blog has a sudden increase in traffic, the last thing you want is for your website to crash because your web host's servers are too slow to keep up. Either way you go, make sure you create an enjoyable, quality blog in the end.