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After having made up my mind for the domain name, my next step was looking for a hosting provider so I could register my domain and host it as well. But choosing the right hosting provider is not as easy as you think, especially when there are thousands of web hosting companies offer almost same hosting packages. I’ve been browsed around and found some warning about things you should be aware of before selecting a web hosting company that made me do even more research about choosing a web hosting.So the results that I got for choosing the right web hosting company are :

1. Do not fall for the cheap price they offer. The cheapest you’ll get, the more you should be aware of. Don’t pay cheap, cause you get what you pay and then face a lot of down time. You will lose credibility and thus lose your readers.
2. Choose a host with less downtime, cause you want the maximum exposure to your site and avoid it being unavailable to your readers.
3. Find a host which provide the 24/7 customer support, cause if you have problems technically at any time, you know that you will always have support from your web hosting service.
4. Choose a host that provide Fantastico, an auto-installation for software scripts like Wordpress. With Fantastico, it only takes a few quick steps and your blog is installed.
5. You shouldn’t be charged for the set up fee. In fact, they should be happy to do it for you cause you had choose to do business with them.
6. Choose a host that offers FTP access which allows you to upload files to your site or updating your information. Cause you will need this when you have changes or addition to make.
7. It is very important to back up files and it’s good if you can find host that does this as well.

After reading some posts in Sueblimely, Gather Success, Blogging4Cash and some other more, I decided to have Hostgator as my hosting provider. This is my final decission since there are many bloggers recommended it, and has all the criteria that mentioned above as well.

With my knowledge about hosting that almost zero, their live support and their contact support by email had been very helpful for me until I could get this far. And so far, I haven’t experienced downtime, and hopefully never. And I choosed Baby Package, their favorite plan. This package allows me to host unlimited domains and with the disk space and bandwith provided, I could host more than one site. Who knows I want to start other site in the future?

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