• Bluehost Web Hosting Uptime – July, 2012
• HostGator Web Hosting Uptime – July, 2012
• InMotion Uptime – July, 2012
• Web Hosting Hub Uptime – July, 2012
• Site5 Web Hosting Uptime – July, 2012

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Once you have started blogging, there is an overwhelming enjoyment that you simply cannot satisfy. You feel that you have unlimited topics to write about and share with your readers. The problem is where are your readers?

We can say that the quickest approaches to get readers, followers, or subscribers for your blog aren’t always the most effective ways to maintain them as a consistent audience. While considering the fast ways of getting readers to your blog, you should also think about the strategy on how to maintain them.

Here are some ideas to help you get started on how to find readers for your blog fast (if you totally new to the blogging world, make sure you read our previous blogging tips articles for some helpful tips on getting your blog started).

• Tips to Start Successful Blog
• 2012 Best WordPress Plugins
• The Best SEO Hosting for WordPress

5 Fastest Ways to Find Blog Readers

1. Social Networking

If you have a blog, you most probably have a Facebook or Twitter account. These two sites maybe are the best places to start gathering readers for your blog. For starters, what you need to do is try promoting your blog on your wall or tweet about it. Who else is more interested to read the articles you write than your friends and family? The good compliments they are going to give will not hurt either as you fine tune your writing voice and skill.

If you have hundreds of Facebook and Twitter friends, well you just have found a potential readership for your blog. Furthermore, since we are talking about your friends and loved ones, “maintaining” this audience is relatively easy.

2. Forums & Other Blogs

Let’s say you want other readers other than your friends and family to read your blog. The next thing you need to do is let them know your blog exists.

The best way to do this is by actively participating or posting on forums and commenting on other sites, especially those that have the same niche as your blog. When doing this, make sure you include a link to your blog. This can be a fast way to get new readers because people who get interested in your comments will surely take a look at your blog once they read your comment. So make sure you leave useful and interesting posts and comments in forums and blogs that are already popular.

Take the web hosting industry for example, WebHostingTalk.com is a pretty good forum to start with.

3. Aesthetical Value

People today have become attracted with visual blog posts which means you need to take full advantage of this form of content. Attract them to your blog by making it aesthetically pleasing. A blog with nothing but text, text, and more text is completely uninteresting so make sure you include attractive photos inside your blog content that will attract reader’s attention (ADVANCED TIP: once you get popular, pretty photos are not that important…as a matter of fact, once you are the “expert” in your respective field, people will only really care about the “words”).

Besides that, if you want your blog to have a simple yet attractive and professional feel, you must organize your sidebar. Heavy, cluttered sidebars with ads or unrelated widget will make your blog look unprofessional. Make sure you keep your blog design and layout clean because a clustered sidebar will drive your visitors away.

A nice font is also something that attracts audience. Make your font large and easy to read. Because easy to read text with good font selection will encourage people to read more and more of your posts.

4. Interact With Your Audience

When you leave comments, usually you will hope that the blog admin reply you. Same here, when you readers leave comments, you should take your time to reply to it. Simple replies like “Thanks You” or “Come Back” can go a long way in the digital world. Isn’t it just appalling when a blog owner does not respond to e-mails and comments? Hence, you should never take the comments and e-mails of your audience for granted and make them think you don’t care…after all..isn’t that why you build the site in the first place??!!.

Respond to comments that are worth responding to. Negative comments should be handled with care. You do not want people to think that you do not accept criticism. Always respond with respect, sincerity, and passion to cultivate good interaction with your audience. This way, your personality will attract readers. Most probably, they will also promote your blog to their friends.

Another good way of interacting with your audience is by making polls or surveys. Encouraging people to voice out their opinion on your blog will definitely help you earn readers.

5. Search Engine Optimization

Probably the most effective and fastest way to get readers is by optimizing your blog and posts for search engines like Google and Bing. Millions of people search about countless things using search engines every day. These people, of course, read the first interesting thing that the search engine comes up with. Therefore, you must increase your chances of being found through search engines or better yet be on the first page when a search about your niche is made.

You can do this by using keywords on your posts with a certain density, making powerful headlines for your post titles, writing short yet informative descriptions for your post, and more (feel free to browse our older articles for some great tips on SEO).

The main key to success in blogging world is be clear on what you are doing and keep building good relationships with other bloggers. Remember that you are dealing with REAL people out there…not just “visitors,” and your blogging business will be off to a GREAT start.

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• Bluehost Web Hosting Uptime – June, 2012
• HostGator Web Hosting Uptime – June, 2012
• InMotion Uptime – June, 2012
• Web Hosting Hub Uptime – June, 2012
• Site5 Web Hosting Uptime – June, 2012

Our all-around favorite company continues to be Bluehost (especially if you are going to be using WordPress to run your site hosted with Bluehost). Check out Bluehost here for more information and signup today!

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VPS hosting can make your life a lot easier, but it is not always necessary. So the first thing you must do is evaluate the need. Secondly, you must shop around for the best value. Thirdly, you must see what others are saying about the level of service and the quality of the product.

If you still don’t have the idea what is VPS Hosting, make sure you read this article about VPS web hosting and check our recommendations for the best budget web hosting plus our favorite business web host .

In this article we want to highlight some of the important points that you must consider before opting in for any VPS hosting (and why we think Site5 is a great choice to consider).

How To Select The Best VPS Server Hosting

Determine Your Need - Not all companies will need to use VPS web hosting. Some companies are too small, and their growth plans are not as aggressive as others. If you are doing just fine with shared hosting, then you may want to stick with that hosting plan for maximum cost efficiency. But if you want more control (and you know what to do with that control), then you will want to contract with a dedicated hosting provider who can make sure that you are fully equipped for the work, customization, and skill levels involved.

Shop Around for The Best Value - There are hundreds and hundreds of VPS or dedicated hosting providers out there. Not all of them are created equally. While you may find several worthy candidates, ultimately there is just one that can win your business, so it is important not to have your head turned by the cheapest out there. Instead focus on which web hosting company can give you the best value. The only way that you are going to be able to do that is to examine and cross-compare the features that each has along with the price for what you get. Once you know what your needs are, it should be easy to determine the features that matter.

What Others are Saying - With millions and millions of websites out there, it is easy to find someone similar to you who can recommend (or warn you about) VPS hosting providers. Find a site that is similar to yours and ask the owners about what their experiences are. The more market research that you do early in the game, the better your overall experience will be throughout the life and the demands your business places upon you.

We trust dedicated hosting services from Site5 web hosting. For our money, they provide the best dedicated server and VPS hosting service. Below is a brief overview of Site5 web hosting.

Site5 VPS – One of The Best VPS Hosting Companies

Site5 is a highly acclaimed web host based in San Ramon, California. The company was founded in 1999 by Matt Lightner and Rod Armstrong, and has been serving webmasters for almost a decade. Site5’s philosophy is “web hosting should be easy, fun, accessible, reliable and generally not painful to use.” With over 200 VPSs and nearly 200,000 domains hosted, Site5 knows how to bring their vision to life.

With Site5 XenServer VPS hosting plans, you receive 100% dedicated protected resources. The nodes that host Site5 virtual server products contain at least 8 cores and 24 GB of RAM. As each virtual server receives dedicated resources, you can rest assured knowing you and only you have access to your disk space, RAM, and CPU core allotment.

With its dedicated server hosting you no longer have to deal with a neighbor who uses more than their fair share of resources. Each client on the XenServer VPS hosting servers has access to only their fair share of the resources they purchase. This means you have a much more stable hosting environment at Site5. You get the power of a dedicated hosting setup with the support and low-cost of a shared web hosting platform.

Site5 is proud of not having overloaded and oversold servers, and they also guarantee monitoring every day to make sure reliability is kept in check.

From our early Site5 research/review and taking into consideration the customer reviews, the majority of customers are very satisfied with Site5 and highly recommend this web hosting company to others.

VPS hosting maintains a good balance with the low cost of shared hosting and much of the power of dedicated hosting. It offers most all the features of dedicated hosting at a very low price. Make sure you check out Site5 VPS Hosting.

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The number of plugins available is endless, and you should always do some research for more information about certain plugins that you want to use for your blog.

In this article about the Most Popular WordPress Plugins of All Time, we want to highlight 10 of the most popular WordPress plugin that are being (and have been) downloaded through the WordPress plugin directory. These are some of the best and most popular plugins that you will want to consider adding to your site. The list of plugins that we come out in this article is basically based on the number of total downloads for the plugin.

10 Most Popular WordPress Plugins of All Time

Before we go to the main topic make sure you check out our previous articles. We have talk about the Best SEO Plugins for WordPress where we have mentioned the best WordPress SEO plugins that you can use to optimize your website.

All in One SEO Pack - Downloads: 11,044,858

All in One SEO Pack WordPress plugin is a WordPress SEO plugin to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines. This plugin is one of the best SEO plugin that being used by many and the one that recently reached the 10 million downloads milestone.

Akismet - Downloads: 10,901,988

This is one of the most used plugin, which comes as a default plugin installed for new WordPress installation. To use this plugin what you need to do is get your own unique API Key. Akismet checks every comment and sends the comment to the spam box if it is suspicious or has been already marked as spam by you. There is a free and paid option available, depending on the need, like personal blogs can use the API key and Akismet services for free but businesses and commercial sites can pay to get more out of it. For your information this plugin also just hit the 10 million downloads milestone.

Google XML Sitemaps - Downloads: 7,764,246

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. We highly recommended that you install this plugin because this plugin don’t have any complicated set-up that you need to do, usually you install, activate and set the .xml sitemap and the plugin will do the rest.

Contact Form 7 - Downloads: 7,077,046

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

NextGen Gallery - Downloads: 5,254,536

The NextGen plugin is basic from an operational standpoint but it offers a lot of features for you to take advantage of. Create an RSS stream from your uploaded images, add watermarks to photos and create slideshows. NextGen supports multiple themes and CSS customization for complete integration with your existing WordPress blog.

WPtouch - Downloads: 3,450,224

This plugin transforms your website into an application-like theme that makes for easier viewing on mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets. The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to touch mobile visitors, without modifying single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.

WordPress.com Stats - Downloads: 2,956,655

There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and you cannot view all the related stats that you need in the admin panel. This plugin has been developed with simplicity in mind where it highlight all your blog statistics with no additional load on your server. All the statistics details are accessible via your WordPress admin panel. Installing this plugin become easier when it has now been incorporated into the Jetpack plugin.

WP Super Cache - Downloads: 3,282,480

A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. But many used Super Cache because of the best balance of complexity and features. More over Super Cache plugin works well on multisite, and is so far working well on nginx too.

Google Analytics for WordPress - Downloads: 3,154,760

Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and page views. This plugin work basically to track all your website performance but remember that you cannot install other analytics plugin if you already installed this plugin because it will break this plugin tracking ability.

WP PageNavi - Downloads: 2,634,711

If you’re not familiar with the WP-PageNavi WordPress plugin, it allows you to replace normal previous/next navigation with a more advanced, numbered paging navigation. If you want to use this plugin make sure your host is running PHP 5 or higher. Looking for WordPress web hosting, make sure you check out Web Hosting Hub WordPress Hosting packages.

There you have it, our list of 10 Most Popular WordPress Plugins of All Time. Hopefully you can get benefits from it, remember to check it out.Do you know any other popular WordPress plugins that you feel should have been included here? Your opinion and feedback are appreciated, make sure share your thought below.

Before we end this this article, make sure you check out our Best WordPress Plugins 2012 articles series. There are more to come and we hope you will get benefits from it.

Related: If you are looking for some great Free Templates for WordPress check out this site. For a huge WordPress bundle of free and premium products/services check out this site. If you are looking for some of the nicest looking Responsive Templates for WordPress check out this article as it’s updated often.

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• Bluehost Web Hosting Uptime – May, 2012
• HostGator Web Hosting Uptime – May, 2012
• InMotion Uptime – May, 2012
• Web Hosting Hub Uptime – May, 2012
• Site5 Web Hosting Uptime – May, 2012

We were incredibly close to having full 100% uptime from ALL of our recommended hosts (a first). InMotion had a few minutes of downtime on the 30th and 31st of the month to keep that from happening, but it was still a near perfect month for all of our recommended provider. This goes to show the quality of the companies we recommend is at the top of the pack, and you have our commitment in continuing to provide you with the absolute best web hosting providers on the market today.

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• Bluehost Web Hosting Uptime – April, 2012
• HostGator Web Hosting Uptime – April, 2012
• InMotion Uptime – April, 2012
• Web Hosting Hub Uptime – April, 2012

Only HostGator had 100% uptime for us in the month of April, however each of the other 3 web hosts we recommend were close behind at 99.9%. Feel free to check out the reports above to learn more about the hosting reliability of Bluehost, HostGator, InMotion, and Web Hosting Hub.

Stay tuned this month as we add reliability reports for a few new hosting companies as well.

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Lately blogging is becoming huge! Some of these people start a blog because they know what they are doing but some start blogging just to follow everyone else. Following what others do may not be a smart way for you because you will not know what to write about, what your goals will be, and what you want to achieve. The path to blogging success…after all…is laced with pitfalls and obstacles.

But not to worry…that’s what BestWebsiteHosts.com is here for. In this article we will provide 7 tips to start a successful blog so you can be on your way (the right way).

Tip 1 – Choose a Niche For Your Blog

Deciding on the main niche or topic of your website is the first thing you must consider before you create any website or blog. Your website or blog should reflect your interests, passions, and knowledge on the subject. Identify whether or not you will be able to consistently post about the subject and stay focused on the niche as this is important to make your blog stand out from the crowd in a world of never ending site after site after site. Choosing a good niche will ensure your success in long term, and a good niche will also help you stay focused on creating good content for your site.

Some topics that have good demand and that never really die out are technology related blogs, product or service related sites, and money making blogs. These niches always have news to write about and you can serve fresh content to your readers each time they come to your blog. In addition there are many of issues to discuss on as these are very broad topics. You would be best served to pick a targeted part of a larger niche. For instance, instead of just writing about “weight loss” or “fat burning” you could focus exclusively on something like abs.

If you just want to start, make sure you have a clear subject or niche that you want to write about. If you have knowledge in web hosting, you can create a site related to web hosting where you can give opinions, write a web hosting review, and guide other people on the subject.

Make sure you build a blog for the long term and not something just to spam the search engines. Short term successes are everywhere in blogging, and you will want to treat your new blogging venture as you would a new business.

Tip 2 – Choose a Good Domain Name

The first step to build a successful website is start with a good domain name. The domain name is basically what your website is called. Domains are the URL that people type into their browser to get to your website. Choosing a good domain name sometimes may be challenging because all the “good domains” are already being used. This is where you need to get creative. Do some brainstorming or you can use a domain name suggestion tool such as domain.nr or nametumbler.com to start searching for your own unique domain.

Domain Name Tip – Find a domain name that is easy to remember and spell. You can use domains ending with .com, .net, .org, or .info – but remember to get creative!

We recommend you to check out AtoZWeb for the some of the best prices in domain names (or you can choose to register the domain with your hosting company – sometimes for free).

Tip 3 – Choose a Web Host

You now have your topic of interest to write about (niche) and a good domain name to represent your business online. The next important step is to choose a good web host to host all your content. Making a decision on which web hosting company to choose can be tough. With all the companies out there each promising to have 99% uptime, unlimited resources, and knowledgeable support, there has to be a way to cut through the jargon and make an informed decision, right?

Below are a few of our must read articles on how to choose the best web hosting company. Make sure you read through each of them.

• 10 Point Checklist When Choosing a Web Host
• Web Hosting 101 – Basic Web Hosting Concept
• How to Choose Best Web Hosting Company
• Read all of our Best Web Hosting Guide

A successful blog begins with a good web host! When your web hosting is doing their best to serve you, you will be able to focus on creating a good blog, posting high quality content, and do your best to create value for your readers.

Tip 4 – Choose a Beautiful Designed Theme

In the blogging world, first impressions count. Visitor first impression start with your blog design which usually means you have to pick a good Theme for your site if you are using something like WordPress to run your site (and you should be). All these things play an important roles to start a successful blog. When you use WordPress as your blogging platform then you are on the right track because there are many benefits of using WordPress.

People use WordPress for many reasons. It’s easy to use, it manages content in a easy way that you cannot do with other blogging platforms, and it is easy to customize with free or premium WordPress Themes. But that’s not all.

WordPress blogs also are built with search engines in mind where you can optimize your blog further with hundred of free SEO Plugins for WordPress. With WordPress you can achieve just about any sort of functionality with little effort.

When it come to choosing a beautiful theme for your site make sure that the theme meet your needs. Good WordPress Themes usually will meet several criteria in terms of design, speed, clean code, user navigation and SEO friendliness. Make sure you choose good WordPress theme from top rated WordPress Theme resource like ElegantThemes.com, WooThemes.com, or NThemes.net.

Tip 5 – Posting High Quality Content

Posting quality content consistently keeps your readers engaged as well as attracting new visitors. This is the most important factor in creating a successful blog. You have to provide some value to your readers for them to want to read your blog and come back for more. Make sure that you are providing value by posting high quality content on your blog. For example if your blog is about WordPress Themes Review, make sure you provide a good, unbiased review that can help your reader.

When you create something that has value to your reader, they will look to you as a good source for that particular topic, recommending your site to their family and friends. Just put yourself in your reader’s shoes. What would YOU want to hear that would make you come back? This is the type of focus we take with BestWebsiteHosts.com. Yes we are a hosting site, but we also like to write content like this that goes far beyond just “hosting” as there is SO much more to running a successful site than just picking a good web host (although that is very important).

But if your website is all about your business, make sure you keep your visitors updated about your services and products. Visitors want to know what you’re all about. Therefore, you focus should be to write content about your theme or subject matter or you can also hire someone to write for your website. You need to present a professional and good first impression when people arrive at your website, especially if you are offering products and services.

Tip 6 – Use Social Networking For Blog Marketing

Once you have filled up your blog with good content, its time to tell the world that your blog exists. The challenge is – ‘How do you tell the world that your blog has what they are looking for?’ To start you can start commenting on other blogs that have same niche with you – build a network with sites that have a similar interest. After all, visitors to a “competitors” site will also be interested in your site if you are in the same niche.

But the best way for blog marketing is by using Social networking sites like StumbleUpon, Reddit, Facebook or Twitter. That is the best place for you to start finding prospective customers and readers. Many say that building a network using these social media is a time consuming and never ending task, but if you do the right way you will get never ending benefits.

For us the best way to use social networking for blog marketing is by actively participating in discussions and providing valuable comments. Doing this the right way will let others know that your site exist, and if they like what you are doing, they will share it with other.

Sharing here is the viral process that provides free promotion for you. See how successful blogs out there are doing their blog marketing, and see if you can get some ideas from guys who already have a big following.

Tip 7 – Monetizing The Right Way

A lot of people think that starting a blog can earn money easily and almost immediately. That is not true, and you need to avoid this wrong mindset. Earning money through blogs is not as easy as it seems because it takes time, lot of work, and a clear objective on what you want to achieve with your blog.

If you need some help in this department, follow these helpful tips. You can start monetizing your blog when:

• Your blog is at least 3 months old.
• Your blog is active and with an average potential traffic.
• Your blog is attracting a targeted audience for targeted advertising (depends on your blog’s niche).

Monetizing the right way means you can monetize your site with different ad and display networks but you must make sure that you don’t scare off your reader with all pop up advertising and paid to click program that keep distracting them from why they came to your site in the first place (it wasn’t to see annoying advertisements, trust me).

Final Thought

As you can see, starting a blog takes time and lots of energy. But if you do it the right way, it will totally pay off. The best way to create a successful blog is to start implementing all the tips you found on the internet (and especially this article).

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Blogging is extremely popular these days. Many businesses and personal sites use it to communicate with their customers or visitors. Some people even use blogging software as a CMS or content management system. There are several blogging platforms available, many for free — but easily the most popular and most used is WordPress.

When we talk about WordPress Web Hosting, not all web hosting companies can provide you with good features and services that can accommodate your blogging needs. The purpose of this post is to guide the new bloggers and website owners how to find a good WordPress web hosting company. We will highlight more on WordPress Hosting with Web Hosting Hub, so make sure you read this article through if you are looking for information on hosting your WordPress-powered site.

Web Hosting Hub WordPress Hosting

WordPress and Web Hosting Hub is a combination you should definitely consider. Whether you are beginner, expert user, already making money online or just trying to put up your own website, Web Hosting Hub is a great budget host provider. You need to understand why it is so powerful and what are the benefits of using Web Hosting Hub WordPress Hosting.

Web Hosting Hub began offering their services in 2009 and this company has grown considerably since, recognized as on of the top best web hosting companies. Their aim is to provide highest quality technical support, customer satisfaction and top quality web hosting services at an affordable price. With their easy to use Website Builder and One Click Installer script, customers can build very fast a professional looking websites. Web Hosting Hub is a top WordPress hosting company because of the extra features they offer.

Web Hosting Hub: The WordPress Hosting Experts?

One of the main reasons why you should choose Web Hosting Hub WordPress hosting is simply because they are one of the best WordPress hosting experts available and trusted by thousands of users all over the world. Below are two main features that make Web Hosting Hub a true WordPress Hosting expert.

Firstly, Web Hosting Hub’s servers are optimally configured to run WordPress. Their servers run suPHP, which allows for a much higher level of security. The servers also run with the latest and most stable versions of MySQL 5 & PHP 5. Utilizing the use of PHP Caching and maximizing available server RAM to make any WordPress blog hosted on their server loads as fast as possible, this is just one of the main benefits you will get if you host your WordPress site with Web Hosting Hub.

Besides that, they currently host thousands of WordPress-based sites and blogs. The support technicians are expertly trained and part of the WordPress community – in fact, most of their staff use WordPress for their personal sites.

If you are wondering why WordPress and Web Hosting Hub could be the right combo to you, let’s look at a few of the benefits with hosting with Web Hosting Hub.

The Benefits of Using Web Hosting Hub WordPress Hosting

1. Unlimited Resources: Unlimited bandwidth and disk space for all of your websites hosted on their servers. This applies to WordPress sites/blogs also. Web Hosting Hub is dedicated to provide value to their customers.

Unlimited resources provided by them is a move taken to provide the best WordPress hosting experience to their customers. You can also create an unlimited number of FTP accounts, POP3 emails, sub-domains, MySQL databases, auto responders, mailing lists, and mail forwards.

2. Easy to Use: Web Hosting Hub provides tools to install your WordPress blog with a single click (1-clicks install). You do not need to be technically sound to set up your own WordPress site. This is true with other features offered by them. You will find an intuitive control panel to manage your WordPress sites.

They offer CPanel administrative access to all of their customers. With Web Hosting Hub, you can also install just about any other open-source scripts with just one click. You can get the job done quickly and easily, even if you do not know about its technical details.

3. 1000’s of Free WordPress Themes: If you are new to blogging, choosing the right WordPress Theme is the first step in marketing your blog online. Those who have taken the time to choose a WordPress theme for their blog know firsthand that it can get frustrating. But if you actively search, you will find some great Free Themes out there (we especially like FreePremiumThemes.com).

You can easily personalize your blog by choosing from thousands of themes developed specifically for WordPress. Finding and changing themes is easy with Web Hosting Hub – you can search for themes and install the ones you like directly from the admin interface. Because WordPress supports an active developer community, there are thousands of themes available for free.

WordPress Tips – Add more functionality to your WordPress blog by installing the Best SEO Plugin for WordPress. Check out our recommendation.

4. Affordable and Flexible Hosting Plans: There are many hosting options for you to choose. Web Hosting Hub supports hosting for more than one blog or website. If you have no plans to host more than one blog, you can go with a simple hosting plan. You can always upgrade your plan if you want to host more than one site/blog later.

In terms of value, you’ll find that Web Hosting Hub offers a cheap web hosting plan. The most obvious is their pricing. Right now, they offer their unlimited hosting plans for just $3.95 per month, though you’ll have to sign up for several years to get it at this significantly discounted price. Of course, the “unlimited” nature of their hosting plans is also one of the best values here. You’ll find unlimited disk space, as well as unlimited bandwidth.

"Unlimited" Features

5. Free Support: You can directly contact Web Hosting Hub by phone, email, or live chat support if you need help. If you prefer to do things on your own, Web Hosting Hub also offers a very good FAQ section, as well as video tutorials that can help you learn how to achieve different goals or troubleshoot a site. This makes it a leader in WordPress hosting services.

Should You Opt for WordPress Hosting with WebHostinbHub.com?

The ease of use of WordPress coupled with the reliable hosting of Web Hosting Hub will make a huge difference. When you decide to go with hosting at Hub, you will have a powerful platform for your blog our website. This can help you to get everything you need from a reliable web hosting company.

Web Hosting Hub is a good solution for those seeking a budget host with a decent number of features. They provide great support, and are very easy to use. While more advanced users and those with needs that are not met by basic hosting might do better elsewhere, there are a lot of benefits to be gained with this host.

Check out Web Hosting Hub for a list of full features and set up your account in minutes!

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InMotion has been providing website hosting services since 2001 and they continue to grow as a best web hosting company. The hosting company offers a wide range of web hosting services including shared, VPS, and dedicated server hosting. The company is currently based in both California and Virginia.

InMotion is well recognized among business hosting customers and has been awarded numerous hosting awards in the “Business Host” category. InMotion is still less known in the cheaper shared hosting category, but they are one of the few web hosting company that offer the full range of web hosting packages while maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction across all offerings.

In this InMotion hosting review, we will highlight more on InMotion hosting key features and give our thought on InMotion compared to others.

InMotion Hosting Key Features

Currently InMotion offers 4 main types of hosting with 3 offering per plan. They operate two data centers, one on each coast of the United States. In addition to operating their own data centers they allow customers to choose which data center they want their website to reside in. We highlight this as a key feature because not many web hosting companies give customers an option to choose which data centers they want to be in. Besides that, they guarantee 99.9% uptime and have excellent customer service with 24/7 phone and chat support.

By hosting your website at the nearest data center, your website will run up to 6x faster than before – which in turn, increases work efficiency and improve website user experience. Known as the Max Speed Zone Option, this feature is available for all InMotion VPS and Business Plan customers.

Hosting Options

InMotion hosting provides real value with each and every hosting account that they come with starting with entry level accounts all the way up to the strong quad core dedicated hosting servers. Whats great about the InMotion hosting plan is that they offer very cheap web hosting plans that start at just a few dollars per month. The price tags make InMotion one of the best values for your money, especially for beginners that just want to create their first website.

Although, they offer cheap web hosting options, InMotions real strength is the Business Class Hosting and VPS Hosting they provide. InMotion Business Class Hosting is offered in three different hosting packages: the cheapest package (called ‘Launch’ package) comes for just $5.95 per month. The other 2 called Power and Pro packages are $7.95 and $13.95.

With InMotion Business Class Hosting you can choose your data center that keep your website fast, include critical data backup features, and get unlimited disk space plus have a 90-day money back guarantee to test it all out.

A huge benefit of their vast range of packages is the ability to upgrade or downgrade your hosting plan according to your need. You can start small and then move to a suitable hosting plan when your website grows. They can effortlessly move your account to another hosting plan on their servers with no down time and you don’t have to worry about the hassle when upgrading.

Web Hosting Tips – Make sure you choose the best web hosting plan for your site if you want to make money online with your blog. Website downtime can cause you a lot of problem – visitor, customers and traffic will surely drop.

Reliability and Network

InMotion owns and operate the data centers themselves, which mean they have full control over the data centers. To maintain the 99.9% uptime is not a problem for InMotion because they have better access and support to the data centers. They advertise 24/7/365 on-site system administrators in their facilities. They make it a point that YOU know they are on top of their service.

But that’s not all. One of the best features that we found is the backups feature by InMotion. The backups will be taken by InMotion every 36 hours, and we think this feature is absolutely beneficial to their customers. You don’t have to worry about data loses because all backups will be done for you.

Check out InMotion reliability report for more information on the uptime we’ve seen from running our test hosting account with InMotion.

Customer Support

InMotion Hosting has received several awards and this includes an award for customer support. In fact this award is the one that gives you a lot of confidence in the services of InMotion Hosting. Their commitment towards customer support is also reflected in their own statement about their services.

One of the best things is availability of the live chat option. If you use a dialup internet connection, you don’t have to disconnect your line in order to phone customer support…you can do it online through live chat. So, user guides, phone support and live chat – all options are available. With 24/7 customer support, InMotion Hosting is suited to everyone irrespective of their location on the globe.

Control Panel

Like most hosts, cPanel is the included in all web hosting plans but incase you don’t have experiences with cPanel, InMotion Hosting offers a good FAQ section about on how to use the various features. You can use this FAQ section as a reference and easily guide you all the way.

InMotion Hosting Review – Overall Rating

InMotion Hosting is one of the best in this business and has earned many awards for their top services, especially for businesses and business oriented websites.

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