So, you’ve decided to go self-hosted. Now what?

Written by Elizabeth on July 26, 2008 – 11:26 pm -

My dear friend Tresha has a blog on Wordpress.com, and she has grown frustrated with her inability to make her site look just the way she wants. Ah, I was once in her shoes. I went from Blogger to Wordpress.com, but with the encouragement of a good blog friend who runs a blog design company, and a boost of courage from attending BlogHer ‘06, I took the plunge and bought my own domain. I chose my host, Bluehost, on my friend’s recommmendation, but if I had wanted to do some research first, I could have used a site like Web Hosting Geeks to read web hosting reviews. They review and rate web hosts and publish their top ten favorites right on the home page of their site. The Editor’s Choice pick for best hosting goes to Bluehost, yay!

WHG also has an excellent Web Hosting Guide page, which explains in an easy-to-understand way what some of the important things are to look for when choosing a web host. Scroll further down the page and you’ll find links to Popular Web Hosting articles, there’s a plethora of great information in those articles. Don’t be afraid to get your own domain and go self-hosted! There are tons of great resources out there to help, bloggers like me who remember how scary it is at the thought of having all these files to be responsible for, and it really is an empowering feeling to have your own domain. So come on, be the master of your own domain (heh). And check out Web Hosting Geeks, too!


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