Wordpress Hosting

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.