What is Wordpress hosting-Advanced Features Compatibility List Plan Components and Benefits

The WordPress tool is very logical and can be used by virtually anyone who can use a word processor. All you have to do is to login, add a new article, write an url, and either write the blog text right in WordPress, or copy and paste it from your favorite word processor. That’s basically it. That’s how simple it is to use WordPress.

Importantly Blogging is widely increasing in popularity, used by millions to deliver stories, messages and news to its readers, WordPress has become the blogging tool to use. However, WordPress hosting is not for every web hosting service out there it is because WordPress requires high standards from the web hosting provider.

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For your better understanding here we have made a list of top wordpress hosting service with comparison chart.

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Word Press Hosting Company Comparison Chart
Sl.No.	Company	Plan Name	Disk Space	Bandwidth GB/ month	Domain Name	Price	Score / 10
[1].	Lunar Pages*	Basic 1 year Deluxe	1,500 GB	15,000	Free	$7.95	9.62
[2].	Hostgator	Baby monthly	600 GB	6,000	$15	$7.95	9.1
[3].	Dreamhost	1 Year	500 GB	5,000	Free	$6.86	9.0
[4].	Bluehost	1 Year	600 GB	6,000	Free	$7.95	9.0
[5].	GoDaddy	Linux 1 Year	100 GB	1,000	$1.99	$6.29	8.2

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Special Offer:Sign-up for WordPress hosting using one of the links on this page, Online Jobs Mentor will install, setup and configure a WordPress blog for you, for free! (After you sign-up for hosting, use Free Blog Setup Service form to order your blog installation.)

Hint: Most people spend a lot more time than necessary finding the “perfect” hosting company. The truth is most reputable companies (like those listed above) are all very similar when it comes to overall quality. If you search the web you will find complements and complaints for all of them.

* The amount of disk space and bandwidth offered by Lunar Pages is extremely high. Even a very popular blog would not come close to these limits on a monthly basis. We recommend you to signing up with Lunar Pages

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WordPress Hosting Plan Components

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A standard hosting environment for Word press blog hosting software will include the following components.

[1]. Apache web server, which is found on almost 100% of Linux hosting services.
[2]. SQL server – usually MySQL which will manage the WordPress blog database.
[3]. A mail host, which allows your WordPress site to send email notifications for things like comments, password resets and administrator functions.
[4]. Fantastico web hosting allows easy installation of WordPress and many other popular website management tools: Drupal (themes), Moveable Type.
[5]. PHP blog hosting. WordPress runs best on the latest version of php 5.x

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WordPress Hosting Benefits

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Getting your WordPress site hosting setup on your own domain name, can have many benefits over using free blog hosting services like WordPress.com or Blogger.

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[1]. Custom WordPress themes. You visit any of the many WordPress themes download sites and modify it or have a designer modify it to perfectly represent your topic or business blog.
[2]. WordPress plug-ins perform an almost unlimited number of creative services that make creating a blog easier.
[3]. Multiple sites. With a web hosting reseller unlimited account, or even many shared hosting plans, you can host 20 or more WordPress blogs on one hosting provider plan.

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WordPress Hosting Advanced Features

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There are many blog hosting elements that will not affect the novice or low traffic blogger searching for reliable and affordable WordPress hosting. However once your WordPress blog begins to earn decent money or you experience bandwidth limits or process throttling, you may want to upgrade to a more advanced WordPress host.

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[A]. Server virtualization allows your WordPress blog to run unaffected by other sites on the same server. You are protected from downtime that could result from other sites’ traffic spikes or errors.
[B]. Dual processor servers or even quad processor servers provide extra speed and power for high traffic or processor intensive sites. For example lots of AJAX or many database calls for each page that is served. WordPress hosting will sometime benefit if your site has a lot of traffic.

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WordPress Web Host Cautions

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These are the primary things should be known when looking for WordPress blog hosting:

[1]. Windows hosting – WordPress will run on Windows servers, but it can be a hassle and some features like the very important search engine friendly links (permalinks) can be almost impossible. Avoid Windows for WordPress hosting.
[2]. Customer Support – Before signing up for any WordPress hosting, check their customer support.
[3]. Cheap hosting – look for blog hosting experts. Sure going with a $2 a month plan will be probably be fine when things are running smoothly, but when your site receives lot of visitors and suddenly your server crashes, you won’t want to wait 18 hours for a response to your service ticket.

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Fortunately our Free Blog Setup Service allows you to get a fully featured WordPress blog setup and ready to blogging for free, just by signing up for your WordPress hosting services from any of the links on this page.

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WordPress WebHost Compatibility List

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This wordpress Compatibility list is taken from (codex.wordpress.org). Here are a list of hosts that have been tested with Core Update feature that becomes available with Version 2.7.

Hosting Company, no issues

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (A to D)

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A2 Hosting
A Small Orange (PHP 5.2.6 or PHP 4.4.9, MySQL 4.1.22, Apache)
Acens
Agile Hosting
allincl (running PHP 5, mySQL 5)
AN Hosting [midPhase]
Aruba.it Linux (defining the right permissions in wp-config)
Arvixe
AxisHOST
Binero
BlueFur
Bluehost (running PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.45)
Canadian Web Hosting
Cyberneticos (PHP5, MySQL5 & Apache2)
D9 Hosting
DirecNic (PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.51, Apache)
Dotster (PHP 5.2.5 MySQL 4.1.21 Apache)
Dreamhost
dream-hosting.co.uk (PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.51a)

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (E to H)

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Eleven2 (running PHP 5.2.4, MySQL 5.0.51a-community)
EZ Web Hosting (PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 4.1.22-standard)
GoDaddy (using Linux Hosting Configuration 2.0 and PHP 5. See this to use PHP 5 with WordPress)
Gradwell (PHP 5)
Fasthosts
Ferca Network
Heart Internet
Helder Hosting.nl
Holdfire Network
Hostalia Internet
HostGator
HostMds (.com)
HostMonster (running PHP 5.2.6, MySQL 5.0.45)
Hosting Matters
HostNexus
HostPapa
Home.pl

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (I to L)

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ICDSoft – (Linux, MySQL 5.0.45, PHP 5.2.6)
Infomaniak
iPower – (Debian, MySQL 5.0.45, PHP 5.2.2)
IPowerWeb
IXIY Hosting
IXWebhosting (.com)
JaguarPC.com
Jumba.com.au
Joyent.com
Laughing Squid
LiquidWeb
LunarPages

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (M to P)

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Masterweb (Indonesia)
Medba.net (Argentina – Php5, MySQL5 Apache2)
MediaTemple
MediaLayer
midPhase
Mindnet (Brazil)
MomWebs.com
Mosso.com
Netsons (Italy)
Network Solutions (working fine)
NSDesign (United Kingdom)
OVH (running PHP5, MySQL5 and Apache 2)
ProISP.no
Pair.com (using php-cgiwrap, more here)
Nearly Free Speech – (Proper permissions required – http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/07/04/how-to-get-wordpress-working-under-php-safe_mode-on-nearlyfreespeechnet/)

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (Q to T)

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ReadySetConnect.com
ReliableWebs.com
RockStarComm.com
Sezam Hosting (Serbia)
Site5
SITECLARO.COM.BR (BRAZIL)
Siteground
Strato
SUPERHOSTING.BG
Tophost.it (Italy)

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (U to Z)

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UKHost4U – Linux based server, not tested on Windows based server
UK Web.Solutions Direct
Valcato Hosting
WampServer2 on Vista
Web.com Linux and Windows Accounts + Including WordPress MU
Webol
Weblogs.us
Web Hosting Buzz
Webperte (italy)
WPWebHost
XAMPP installation on Windows
XAMPP installation on Linux

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Hosting Company, Works with caveats

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (0 to 9)

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1and1 (fails running PHP 4, but works with PHP 5. Add AddType x-mapp-php5 .php to .htaccess to enable PHP 5. This also appears to not only affect Core updates but some Plugin updates as well.)

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (A to D)

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Aplus.net – Does not work with Akismet due to requirements asking for permission for all outbound http requests to provide port number, IP address or hostname and reason for request.
Aruba.it (Italy) – Automatic upgrade doesn’t work, unless you put in wp-config.php the following variables:
define(‘FS_CHMOD_FILE’,0755);
define(‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’,0755);
After you have done this, all settings (should) work perfectly.

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Note: This refers to the Linux version hosting; Windows hosting does not support WordPress correctly and Aruba does not give support for it on this platform.

Cedant – Does not work with Akismet due to requirements asking for permission for all outbound http requests to provide port number, IP address or hostname and reason for request.

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Hosting Company Name Starts From (E to Z)

one.com (memory issues)
Servage (works on new clusters with PHP 5 and doesn’t work on old clusters with PHP 4)
World4You (Firewall restriction, works only on a special server)

Hosting Company, Doesn’t Work

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hostbot.com (SAFE MODE Restriction in effect)
free.fr (SAFE MODE Restriction in effect)
Lycos Europe – allow access to dashboard but does not display blog. Error message says that the Webpage has a redirect loop, and is caused by a server configuration issue.
InMotion Hosting – Details here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/222794?replies=1
Online.net [FR] : not working yet (feb. 09) but may work (with caveats ?) after next internal php upgrade. Stay tuned!
Servage (only on old clusters with PHP 4, works on new)
TotalChoiceHosting (they say they are waiting on WP…)

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1. Kirk Brown says:

   2009/04/11 at 10:09 am

   This is good information. I’m glad I found it. Thank you for providing this. I provide professional web design services and solutions and can relate.