On of the most frequent questions we receive from the visitors to our website is in regards to hosting WordPress on variety of web histing providers featured on our website.
Today we would like to help those of our visitors who are looking to host their WordPress site with IX WebHosting. But some of our suggestions apply to many web hosting providers.
Before choosing a web hosting plan for your WordPress website, you will need to make sure that your web hosting plan offers support for both PHP and MySQL. These are two essential features needed in your webhosting plan in order for WordPress to operate.
Currently IX WebHosting offers support for PHP and MySQL in all their hosting plans. So the your choice should be focused on the amount of space and monthly bandwidth you think your future site will require. For the beginners we highly recommend their “Expert Plan†which comes at only $3.95 per month. This plan allows you to have 2 domain one of which comes with the plan. It also gives you 200 GB of hosting space along with 2,000 GB of monthly bandwidth.
While many webhosting providers offer so called Fantastico installation scripts winch include an installation script for WordPress. With IX WebHosting you need to do the installation yourself. For complete documentation along with the latest version of WordPress visit http://www.wordpress.org.
Important: You will need to configure MySQL database before installing your WordPress, please read carefully all the Installation Instructions.
