Web Hosting for Blogs and Bloggers

What Is Blogging?

A Blog (short for "Weblog") is simply a journal-like mechanism but in an online environment. Blogs can be used for many purposes, but are mainly used for personal or business journals and news dissemination. Blogs often have a comment function that allows users to make comments on each entry. Blogs make creating journal/news entries very easy and are meant to take the pain out of web publishing.

If you're just trying to get a simple site up where you can publish stories, articles or just your random thoughts then a blogging system is a good start. You don't have to worry about designing an entire website or generating page after page of content. The blog system will allow you to easily customize the look and feel of your site and will have you publishing within an hour or less. The blogging software also has built in archival systems and include a variety of maintenance functions so you don't have to deal with FTP or other "web copy" protocols.

Blogging Software

Blogging has been around long enough that the software options are numerous. We support almost every blog package out there, but by far the most used blogging systems are:

• Movable Type [site] [our Movable Type tutorial]
• WordPress [site] [our Wordpress tutorial]
• Serendipity [site] [our Serendipity tutorial]

Web Hosting For Blogs

All of our shared and reseller web hosting solutions are great for hosting a blog. If you're just starting out we always recommend the Mini-Me package as it's inexpensive and capable of most of the basic features most users will need. If you are running an existing website you may want to look into our other shared hosting plans or even check out a virtual private server, dedicated server or server cluster if your needs warrant. If you're unsure about what level of hosting you need, just ask us and we can point you in the right direction.