Web Hosts For Bloggers: Does Your Choice Matter?

We’ve grown increasingly frustrated with GoDaddy here at BCP. We tried to work with them, but their service just isn’t real conducive to blogging. I think it might have something to do with the fact that GoDaddy has been around long enough that they didn’t consider blogging platforms and the needs of bloggers before building their service offerings. How could they have known we’d need certain features?

The problem with GoDaddy as a web host is that their system is not friendly toward WordPress, our preferred blogging platform. WordPress is open source. You would think that it would be compatible with any host. Not true.

When it comes to web hosting, there are a ton of features that vary from host to host. Some offer dedicated servers and some only use shared servers. Some have rotating IP blocks, which is an irritating nuisance if you are trying to write a blog because you never know where you’re going to be in cyberspace from one day to the next. Some support MySQL and others don’t. I could go on and on about the variations you’ll find, but I don’t want to bore you.

Suffice it to say that GoDaddy is not a good web host for setting up a WordPress blog. You need a host that offers dedicated servers. Ideally, you would have your own dedicated server for your blog. But if you can’t have a dedicated server then you at least want to share a server with other blogs of a similar type. By similar type, I mean business blogs. That’s an important distinction because you could just as well go to Blogspot and most of your neighbors will be personal blogs, or poetry blogs. Most likely, they’ll be spam blogs. Blogspot is, after all, the biggest neighborhood for spam on the Internet.

That’s why we always steer our customers away from Blogspot. From here on out, we’ll attempt to steer them away from GoDaddy as well. You might pay more for a dedicated server, but it’s worth it. You want a host that will protect your blog’s IP address and keep the riff raff out. You also want the added security that comes with certain types of hosts. Finally, if your web host makes it difficult for us to SEO your blog properly, and GoDaddy does, then the performance of your blog will be diminished. We’d hate for that to happen. We do, after all, pride ourselves in producing the best results online for commercial and small business blogs.