May 2nd, 2010
This is a review of Ixwebhosting hosting provider as a wordpress host.
Ixwebhosting
Ixwebhosting is a web hosting provider offering shared and vps hosting solutions. It is one of the oldest hosting providers founded in 1999 with thousands of customers.
Ixwebhosting Wordpress test
Ixwebhosting have PHP enabled on their web servers, and mysql database support is also available. On our test wordpress run smoothly and every wordpress feature was available. Installation went without any problem. We can say that ixwebhosting is an excellent hosting provider. One-click installation is available via hsphere one click installer tool for less tech-savvy users.
Other scripts
Other web applications can also be installed on ixwebhosting. Joomla, Drupal, phpbb forum, galleries have been tested and work great.
Rating and reviews
Ix web hosting have received a number of awards and good reviews from customers. They are popular hosting provider and recommend them as your wordpress host.
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April 24th, 2010
After you install your wordpress blog it is time to install plugins for best blogging experience.
There is a plugin directory on the offical wordpress site, wordpress.org at this address: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/. In my opinion the following plugins are the best and recommended to install when you create your blog:
wp-super-cache
Wp-super-cache is an excellent cache plugin that generates static html files of your posts, categories, pages and other. After a static html file is generated it is served the next time the resource is requested. This will lessen the load of the wordpress hosting server and will allow your blog to stay up when traffic spikes are here, (e.g when your post hits digg.com front page). It is a must install plugin.
Google XML Sitemap generator
Google XML Sitemap generator will allow you to generate Sitemap XML files for google. This will allow faster SE (Search Engine: Google, MSN, Yahoo) indexing of your site’s contents. Faster and better indexing is better and it might increase your rankings.
All in one SEO pack
All in one SEO pack is a great plugin, that generates and adds automatically meta tags and meta description, generates titles, tunes overall SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for your blog. This will allow better indexing and it may increase SE rankings.
There are lots of other plugins available and you might want to install them if you need additional features. Some also recommended are Contact form 7, Google Analycator and others.
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April 11th, 2010
Installing wordpress blog is very easy. You start of by downloading the latest version available on the official wordpress website: wordpress.org. After you download the package (available as zip and tar.gz (linux preffered)) you extract the files in an empty folder. With your favorite FTP client (FileZilla?) you upload the files to your web hosting account, the folder where you want word press to be installed. After you upload all the files, you will need to create MySQL database. Today most web hosting providers offer control panel where you can create a mysql database. After you created database you will need to create a mysql user and add it to the databese. Select All privileges to be added to that mysql user so wordpress can be installed. Write down the username, password and database name because you will need them in the next step. After the database and user have been created you continue the installation by accessing the web address with your favorite browser (firefox?) where wordpress will be installed. Here you will find a installation form where you can enter database details (username, password, database name mentioned earlier). After this step wordpress is installed and your administrator user name and password will be showed to you. Save the password and change it later once you log in. Nowadays most of the hosts offer one-click installer (like fantastico) where you can install wordpress in 2-3 steps, without the need to create databases, users, or upload files. Updating wordpress is easy, just login you wordpress admin panel click on tools, then on upgrade, and then click on upgrade automatically.
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April 4th, 2010
Justhost account comes with PHP, MySQL, cPanel control panel which is very useful. With cPanel you can do almost anything with your websites, including edit them online or upload files. Create databases and setup user access to databases, setup FTP accounts, add new domains and lots of other tasks.
Justhost account is perfectly setup to run wordpress blog. You even have wordpress one-click installer for simple and fast installation – Fantastico de luxe, or you can install wordpress manually but it is time consuming when you can instead use Fantastico and setup your blog instantly. Unlimited blogs can be hosted on single account with unlimited bandwidth. Free domain name is also included. On our test wordpress run without any problems. I recommend them for a wordpress/blog host.
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March 30th, 2010
Hostgator is my favorite wordpress host. I have an account with them two years now and could not be happier. The best choice for personal blogging is to choose one of the shared hosting plans Host Gator offers. The best plan is the baby plan. But if you’ll have only one blog then maybe you should choose the hatchling plan because it is cheaper. but allows only one website to be hosted. So a better choice would be the baby plan. All hosting plans include PHP, MySQL database support, unlimited disk space and bandwidth, cPanel control panel, Fantastico one-click installer for wordpress and other popular scripts (joomla, drupal, phpbb and many others). If you are not tech savvy you can install wordpress with Fantastico in 3 easy steps. No need to upload files or create database, because everything is handled by Fantastico de luxe one click installer cpanel tool. On hostgator the perfomance of wordpress is excellent, with excellent response time and uptime. Hostgator is recommended Wordpress host!
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March 21st, 2010
Wordpress Hosting Requirements
Wordpress requires a web server like Apache’s hypertext transfer daemon – httpd, with PHP running either as a CGI or Module. PHP at least version 4.3 or greater is required and MySQL 4.1.2 or greater is required. Recommended versions for PHP is 5.2.x and for MySQL 5.x. Many hosts nowadays have one-click installer for popular web applications like word press blog. The popular LAMP (linux apache mysql php) platform is best.
Top hosts
Hostgator, Bluehost, Hostmonster, Ixwebhosting, Justhost, Webhostingpad, Lunarpages, Hostnine, Dreamhost, Laughing Squid are the most popular wordpress hosts. All of them also offer unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited wordpress installations, unlimited sites on single account, cPanel control panel, Fantastico one-click installer and many other features for low monthly price. You will be able too install other scripts too including: Joomla – Content Management System (CMS), Drupal – CMS, phpbb – forum software, galleries, shopping carts and other.
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March 14th, 2010
Drupal is better if you want to build a community websites, while wordpress is best as a personal publishing platform. Both are very good web applications. Sometimes is just a matter of personal taste.
Features
Drupal offers more powerful user management system and ability to create own content types. Wordpress user system is also good but not as powerful as Drupal. So drupal is better for community websites.
Content Management
Wordpress have good admin panel and everything is integrated. You can easily add new blog posts, static pages, upload images and insert into posts. While drupal have the ability to create own content types (which is pretty cool).
Popularity
Wordpress is more popular than Drupal, and in my opinion is because Wordpress is more simple to manage, and it aims to be more personal blog publishing, rather than community website.
Conclusion
It’s a matter of personal choice, but Drupal is more powerful than wordpress.
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March 10th, 2010
Wordpress is state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It is Free, open-source and licensed under GNU GPL license. Created in PHP, uses MySQL for data storage of settings and content. Wordpress can be used to create blogs or websites. It offers features like blog posts, static pages, user system, RSS feeds, trackbacks/pingbacks, comments, plugins for extending features, theme system for templates (separates design from code). Particulary the plugin system is great, there are tons of free plugins available that can make your site/blog do almost anything you’d like. There are also tons of free and paid themes available on the internet. According to wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress wordpress is used to create more than 202 million websites as of september 2009.
Hosting Requirements
Wordpress requires PHP and MySQL and a web server in order to be installed. I have not met a host that do not support PHP and MySQL and even offer one-click installers for Wordpress, so if you are looking for a good wordpress hosts then you should probably look into hosts support, uptime and reliability. From all the hosts I have an account with, these are the best for wordpress: HostGator, BlueHost, Hostmonster, Dreamhost, Ixwebhosting, Webhostingpad, Justhost. Whichever you choose you will not make a mistake.
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March 3rd, 2010
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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