Blog Hosting

Blog hosting should be easy to find, in fact all hosting accounts will support wordpress blogs but there is one thing you need to be aware of.

Will you be using custom permalinks?

If you choose to use anything other than the standard wordpress permalinks you will need to find a hosting company that supports mod rewrite.

Personally i like to use this permalink

/%postname%.html

what is does it makes the URL a search engine friendly URL which makes indexing the blog easier and improves SERP's as the URL is keyword related.

This is what you would need to put in your .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Wordpress blogs are the most commonly used, When you have your blog hosting account set up you will find wordpress very easy to install, you just upload the files, create an empty database and then edit one configuration file and run the install and its all done.

Alternatively if your blog hosting account has cpanel with fantastico you can install wordpress in a few seconds through the admin panel, just login into your cpanel account, click on the fantastico link, then wordpress, and follow the step by step instructions.

Hostgator supports mod rewrite and has cpanel as standard, they are also one of the cheapest hosts available.

Use the link below if you want to sign up for a hostgator account.