Making The Right WordPress Hosting Decision

If you are running your website using the massively popular WordPress software, then you are not alone - many thousands of other website owners are doing the same. When it comes to hosting for your WordPress site though, can you be sure that your web hosting company is the right one?

Just because the technology is widespread does not mean every hosting service can deal effectively with it. Whilst you can operate a free blog with WordPress hosting it, if you want a WordPress site that has your own personal domain without “WordPress” in it, then you are going to need to find someone to host it.  A priority for most website owners will be preserving the security of the site.

The downside, of course, of popular technologies is that they can attract unwanted attention; once a hacker has resolved how to get past the basic layer, they have thousands of sites at their mercy.  You need to be sure that your hosting company has this in hand, to avoid both the serious (such as malicious denial of service attacks) and the annoying (such as comments boxes full of badly spelled spam).

Hosting services also need to be able to adjust for continuous upgrading and a variety of plugins and add-ons to the basic application without any downtime.  Look for expertise with PHP plus MySQL databases to enable you to use the latest themes and plugins, as well as ease of use and, last but not least, approachable technical support that will assist efficiently should you have any problems!