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 Sooner or later, if you really want to get your own online business going, you’d have to sign up for web hosting. There are 20+ web hosting companies around and it’s easy to get confused which web hosting plan to choose. Over the years, I tried 10+ companies and ended up using 2 only. Criteria I used to evaluate services from different companies are:

• Inexpensive, but reliable service
• 24/7 customer support that can solve emergency issues fast, help with script installation and so on
• Large disk space and bandwidth (helps a lot when traffic to your blog increases)
• 95%+ uptime, meaning you site or blog will not go down every hour and become inaccessible
• CPanel administration of a site with Fantastico (easy script installer, includes wordpress blog script)
• Allow multiple domains and subdomains in one account
• PHP and mySQL databases
• Easy upgrade to the next level of hosting when required

If some of the things above sounds too technical, don’t worry about them – you’ll learn as you go. However, to get you started fast with reliable Web Hosting, here are my recommendations:

• Hostmonster – cheapest plan $5.95 a month. I host about 80% of my online properties with them.
• Hostgator - cheapest plan $4.95 a month.

Explore both of them and I am sure you’ll be satisfied with either choice.

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