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Choosing a host is very difficult, because you have to weigh in the cost of the hosting with the profile of the host, their reliability and credibility. After all, you don’t want them to vanish overnight, do you?

For hosting your own personal blog, you should choose a big host, which has a reputation and has been around for a few years, so that you know your data is safe. Pay a little more if you have to, it’s worth it to find a reliable host. IW2B is hosted with HostGator because they have been around for about 5 years, and their massive.

It’s worth shopping around, and finding a host that fits your exact needs. For a blog, there aren’t many needs - you need a mysql database, FTP access and PHP running on the server and about 100mb space, as a minimum. This allows you to host your blog, theme and have a fair few posts before you run out of space.
If you’re running a blog where you’ll be uploading photos, you’ll want more space. Don’t compromise.

You shouldn’t trust the host reviews websites (apart from webhostingstuff.com) because they tend to big up the companies that pay the best to them for referring you, rather than the company that is actually the best.

I reccomend HostGator completely - it’s cheap, reliable and very fast. What else do you need? You can also use the coupon code “Wordpress” to get the first month on one of the plans for a cent.

HostGator isn’t good for everyone though. Browse the websites of places like DreamHost, HostNine, Fasthosts and suchlike (Google them) and find what’s best for you.

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