Blog hosting overview

You probably already know why you need a blog hosting specially. There're over 100,000,000 Blogs for personal and enterprise in the world and the number is uprising every minute! Blogs are being more and more important for people's interaction and enterprise products marketing. So choosing a good blog hosting provider is an essential thing before you put your blog site online.

Popular Blog softwares

WordPress(WP) is the most popular Blog software and over 12% used by top 1000,000 websites. No matter if you want to start personal blog or build enterprise website, wordpress is the best and ease to use software. wordpress hosting is supported by all web hosting providers.

Movable Type(MT) is another nice blog & CMS system based on perl language and it's the only blog system which is compatible with many database engines. Many fans love it for the clean design and powerful plugins, it has everything you can expect for blog design.

b2evolution is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website. It has all the features of traditional blog tools and extended them with evolved features such as file & photo management, versatile skins, multiple blogs, detailed user permissions.

Above are popular open sourced blog softwares based PHP/mysql. there're also some popular asp.net blog platforms, but since they're mainly used by developers and only works under windows server, we're not going to introduce a lot. We'll mainly focus on php/mysql scripts as it's completely open sourced and used by most people. Furthermore, 99% php blog softwares are compatible with both windows/linux hosting servers.

Blog Hosting requirement

Since the "LAMP" environment is being used more and more for better performance & price comparing to windows, Almost all open source blog systems are PHP Mysql based. Linux hosting is a MUST if you like to start a blog, how do you determine which hosting provider is the best for your blog site? they should meet the following minimum requirement for start user and long term use consideration:

• Apache/Litespeed web server
• Muleiple mysql database supported
• Sufficient disk storage
• Unmetered monthly bandwidth
• Free domain registrartion
• Free installer in hosting control panel
• Tech support and resource center
• At least 30 days money back guarantee

The "unlimited space" is not a must since you don't really need it, however you should try to find this offer in case your blog site need more space in future, specially when you use it for photo album. As for now, the following webhosts are recommended by us and other webmasters for blog purpose.

 Webhostinghub – Super fast blog hosting and affordable blog hosting provider, trusted by half million world wide websites. Webhostinghub is well known for it's fast and super stable hosting servers. Whub is offering leading 90 days money back guarantee. With only $3.95/mo you get unlimited disk space and unlimited websites hosting plus a free domain name.

 Ipage – The best cheap blog hosting provider! Green and very affordable hosting for only $1.99/mo. If you want to play wtih wordpress with lest paying, ipage is best choice. With $1.99 price you get free auto installer for over 150 php mysql scripts!

WordPress vs MT vs B2evolution

They're all popular blog platforms that serve millions users but which should we choose? MovableType and B2evolution are earliest blog systems that has been stable & powerful, they're started for developer purpose and little complex for start users. The admin side is more like a CMS system. On the other hand, wordpress is pretty clean and easy to use no matter if you're developer or new user. All needed functions are designed via few links navigation. If you want to start a blog, wordpress will be TOP choice with no doubt. Actually, most blog sites are now powered by wordpress for it's great themes and plugins resources. No matter if you want to use wordpress as blog or other website purpose such as ecommerce site or even FORUM, wordpress can do it with no problem!

WordPress official site: www.wordpress.org