Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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5 Points to Include When Planning Your WordPress-Hosting Website
Choosing services for WordPress hosting is sometimes confusing. Moreover, there are so many providers all around the world. Their offers may be really tempting so that the decision can be more difficult. Most of the providers or companies promise 99% uptime, unlimited resources, and numerous supports. Unfortunately, not all of them are able to keep the promise. So, the best thing to do is make some plans first with some points to include. What are those points? Check them out.
Price
Price is undeniably one of the most important factors to see for the first time. That’s good for sure since the money to spend must be compatible with products and benefits to get. However, the price should not be the only determination. If you are seeing a company that provides a really cheap product, you must know the old saying; you will get what you pay. It means; you are choosing a WordPress Hosting product at a really cheap price, it is possible that the quality is low.
Specialization
In fact, not all hosting providers can provide what customers really need. It is even for WordPress Hosting. As you know, WordPress Hosting is well-known for its flexibility to be used in many types of websites. However, to create a certain website, additional plug-in are needed to provide also. This is the problem anyway since not all providers are able to provide those additional plug-ins.
Specifications
Each hosting provider or company must provide some packages especially used for WordPress Hosting. The packages are different based on some indicators. The indicators themselves are various starting from the features to the type of website to build up. So, you must choose one of the packages that are really in line with what you need. If you want to have a website with rich content, you should not choose the cheapest package. Sure, the RAM and disk may not be enough to fulfill all your needs.
Technical Support
The next thing to consider in planning WordPress Hosting is about technical support. Sometimes, your blog or website may have problems. However, you probably cannot fix it well. So, you need technical support to help you to fix the problem. Choose a hosting provider that gives services of 24/7 via phone, email, live chat, and others. Make sure all of them work well and they are always ready to help you every time.
Features or Add-ons
The next important point to include in your WordPress Hosting plan is the feature or add-ons. Yes, there are standard or premium features that have been provided officially by WordPress. However, it is much better if the provider also has its own features to support the website’s performance. Some features are even related to the provider itself, not specifically for WordPress Hosting. For example, they are the data center, energy-saving tools, data backup, anti-virus, and more.
A hosting company is basically more than just a server. If you are seeing a company offers you more things than what you need, it can be a clue to include it in your WordPress Hosting plans.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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