In recent yeas WordPress has become a platform of choice to many bloggers. Worpress not only alows you to create or update your website in minutes, it also offers you great opportunity to utilize RSS to syndicate your site’s feed. All of that without any programing knowledge what so ever.
How to find good Web Host for your WordPress site?
Before you look for a place to host your WordPress site you should know that a web hosting provider needs to support PHP and MySQL in order to be able to host your WordPress site. WordPress utilizes both PHP and MySQL to create dynamic sites that you may have seen before. Without PHP and MySQL you will not be able to run your WordPress site.
If you already have a web hosting provider use following steps to find out whether or not your hosting plan supports PHP:
- With you favorite text editor like Notepad create a file named “anyname.phpâ€. Make sure that the file ends with .php .
- In the first line of your text file write following code:Â < ?php phpinfo(); ?>
- Save your file and upload it to the root of your website. For example url for your file should like something like http://www.yoursiteurl.com/anyname.php
- Now open this url with your browser. Your browser should display a page that will look like the image below:
What you have just done is you have created your very first php and called on your system to give you info of supported PHP.
If your web hosting plan does not support PHP you either will get error trying to open the file or just get blank page.
If you web hosting plan supports PHP you are ready to install your WordPress site. Just follow the instruction of installing your WordPress.
The installation should be easy and you should have your site running 20 minutes from now. Before you do that inquire from your hosting provider whether you can install your WordPress via Fantastico Installer. If so, we highly recommend to do so. It will save you more time (installation takes less than a minute). The benefit of using web hosting provider that offers Fantastico is that will ease the process of setting up custom permalinks, and you most likely will have no need to modify .htaccess file.
Following hosts support PHP and MySQL:
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