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WordPress Hosting: What To Look For In A Webhost 
By: Chris Channing
WordPress, perhaps one of the most popular blogging platforms to date, isn't exactly the first priority of every webhost around. Many webhosts are too general to provide optimal support for a specific product like WordPress. But if you value your blog, and are serious with its development and growth, looking for a webhost with WordPress-specific options would be in your best interest.
Common Features In WordPress Hosts
Above all else, WordPress should be simple to install. Several different administration panels allow for the instant installation of the script, such as cPanel. cPanel is run on the vast majority of all webhosts, so nearly every webhost user should have access to WordPress.
The problem lies within the support for the product. Generalized webhosts don't always have time to keep up to date on new additions of WordPress- meaning their customers could be at potential security risks. It only takes one delay in upgrades for a blog owner to lose everything they have- and at this point in time a WordPress-specific host would have been the better choice.
Where general webhosts tend to fail bloggers is in the upgrade category. Auto-installers such as Fantastico (packaged with cPanel) offer easy ways to upgrade, but the configurations, themes, plugins, and other content will be lost in the upgrade as files are overwritten. Clearly, WordPress specific hosts get the win here, since they take previously configured files into account when upgrading.
When it comes to databases, more traffic means more entropy. Database operations require extra performance- meaning extra bandwidth. If a blog is hosted on a normal host, bandwidth probably isn't something they have a surplus of. WordPress-specific webhosts take this into account, and offer better optimization for their users.
Bloggers Get Added Bonuses
It isn't always a game of business- sometimes it's about the extras that webhosts can offer. WordPress hosts are popular for offering WordPress-specific plugins and themes for their users free of cost- whereas normally extras such as this can cost webmasters hundreds of dollars.
Interestingly, Wordpress hosts have an overlooked benefit: their exclusivity of their WordPress themes. Free WordPress themes are popular, but it seems that everyone has them. But thanks to the exclusivity of WordPress themes from webhosts, the problem of having a unique design is easily solved.
When a blogger gets a custom design laid out and coded, it becomes apparent that the webhosting route would have been much cheaper. Not a bad tradeoff, considering that there will be very few other blogs with the same theme as yours.
It seems that WordPress hosts win, when it comes to providing better services to bloggers and their fanbase. If you haven't already, you should look into these WordPress hosts as soon as possible.
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