Does A Wordpress Blog Needs Anything Special, Or Can You Just Use An Ordinary Web Hosting Account?

By Alex HD

WordPress is merely one application that can be hosted on a linux server. It may be easier to find companies selling packages such as ‘wordpress hosting package’ or something of the sort. However, this article will explain why it is better to find a linux based web hosting service instead of looking for ‘wordpress hosting’.

Cost

Companies offering wordpress hosting, generally charge you more money. Some companies such as media temple will charge you $20 per month for wordpress hosting. This is extremely higher than what popular companies charge for mere hosting, such as hostgator charging you $4per month. The actual difference in technical terms for users looking to host wordpress website is actually non existent. WordPress can be easily installed on any linux based web hosting server, in about 5 minutes of time.

Technical Difference

There is actually no difference between ‘wordpress hosting’ as such and linux hosting. WordPress can be installed on any linux web hosting server. All you need is one mysql database. This is a very minimalistic requirement. A price of about $20 per month for hosting a wordpress website is extremely high. A mere amount of 50MB space is more than enough to host a wordpress website. You do not need a ‘wordpress hosting’ or an ‘unlimited hosting’ account to achieve that.

Competition

If you compare products that are not similar, you will never understand which one to chose. If you compare a wordpress hosting account and assume that you cannot host wordpress on other hosting accounts, and only compare wordpress hosting accounts amongst themselves, you will be comparing products that are not similar. This will lead to you paying more for the wordpress hosting that you need.

Installing WordPress

The good thing about wordpress hosting in particular is that the hosting account comes with wordpress installed. If you buy a hosting account, that is a plain vanilla hosting account, you would have to install wordpress. This is really simple and can be done in one click as such if you use an installer, much like downloading and installing a software on your computer. Some web hosting providers offer services such as softaculous that offer one click installing for different scripts, and wordpress is one of them. This way you can just log in to your hosting account and install wordpress from scratch and get started in less than five minutes. This is really not something that you should base your decision on. WordPress offers a very simple guide to installing it, and if you use it – you can compare web hosting services regardless of whether you can use wordpress on them.

Conclusion

WordPress is only one application that you can install on your web hosting account and should not make or break you decision. Your decision should be based on cost, quality of service, web space needed, bandwidth needed, the number of blogs you need to host (keep in mind that you need one mysql database for each blog).

At HostingXtreme we offer shared hosting, and also wordpress hosting services with all our hosting accounts. Our smallest wordpress enabled account is just $1.5 a month. If you need to host just one wordpress blog, check out our starter hosting pack, which would be best suited for you.