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Background info that might be helpful:

I'm considering starting a blog to help market to my business. I've played around with wordpress before and could probably figure that out. I have a domain already. I don't know much about SEO, but any services that make this easier would be helpful.

Basically, I'm not sure what to look for in a host other than price and native wordpress hosting. What should I be thinking about to help narrow the choice down? Or does it really not matter?

Background info that might be helpful: I'm considering starting a blog to help market to my business. I've played around with wordpress before and could probably figure that out. I have a domain already. I don't know much about SEO, but any services that make this easier would be helpful. Basically, I'm not sure what to look for in a host other than price and native wordpress hosting. What should I be thinking about to help narrow the choice down? Or does it really not matter?

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[–] [deleted] • 7 pts

Whether they are degenerates or not. Whether they answer their fucking phone. Do they have a history of zero-notice take-downs?

[–] • 2 pts

Hm, hadn't thought about the phone thing. My blog is not likely to attract any attention from censors. It would be nice to support a non-censor host, but I kind of assume they're all the same. In other words, if a host has a history free of zero-notice takedowns, it just means that they have no zero-notice takedowns yet.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

>Or does it really not matter?

If there's nothing controversial about your business the answer is "it doesn't really matter"

Go for a the host everybody goes for, if the monthly fee is budgeted

Why? Because when you have a problem with it thousands will already have posted a question about it on QA boards and it won't take forever to solve your issue

It's like a choice for a given framework or linux distro, when all your choices are roughly equivalent, you take the one everybody go for because it's going to be easier to get infos and docs on it, the less hassle the better. The comparison also holds for picking a laptop, you take the one everybody is happy with

Also if everybody goes for it, chances are it's reliable...

Start searching for "myhost problems" "myhost is a fraud" "myhost is shit"

Of course you'll find results and sometimes you'll find much more results...

...

What else? You have the technical part and the price

Me for instance I would pick a that host (but that's just me for my needs) https://www.gandi.net/en/simple-hosting#prices (edit lol they are down just now haha... Well maybe that's a sign)

Many here will probably tell you that it's not the best blahblaha

All I know is that they are descent, affordable, here since 2 decades at least, and customizable (you can run nodejs hassle free on it or you can go php or ruby, python, with postgresql or mysql) you can try 10 days for free

I would say try the free stuff to see if you're ok with the backend to begin with, because that's what you're going to deal with everyday

[–] • 1 pt

Always verify that blackjack and hookers are REALLY included, and not just some bullshit ploy to trick you into signing up!

[–] • 1 pt

Thanks I've been burned by GoDaddy before.

[–] • 3 pts

Oh god, fuck them, they're very possibly the worst. They just arbitrarily shut things off and move them around with no advance notice, or any notice whatsoever. Also their support staff is pretty retarded. Nice, but retarded.

I still use them for annoying to deal with foreign tld domains, but that's about it. Because I am at least that faggy.

Also, godaddy's hookers give you VD and their blackjack is some black dude named jack. Who jacks you.

[–] • 1 pt

At least he's not some jacked dude who blacks you I guess.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Consider making a static blog. Maybe with Hugo or Ghost.

Static sites are far, far simpler. You lose comments and such but not always a bad thing. Wordpress is sometimes the answer, but not always.

I know slightly off topic, but influences host selection quite a bit.

[–] • 0 pt

Depending on what you are looking to do with it, why not host it on-site? Simple websites don't need a lot of oomph behind them and you'd be in complete control of the server and data. You'd only have to worry about DNS, security and your ISP's reliability. Your ISP is also a possibility.

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I didn't realize my ISP could be a host.

On-site meaning on my own computer? I don't think I would be able to run anything 24/7, and I don't want to have to fix it when it breaks if that's the case.

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On-site meaning on a computer in a server room. I don't know how your business is setup so I don't know if you have a server room. If you don't want to be responsible for fixing it, then you will want to go hosted.

The problem then becomes are they trustworthy - there are several hosting solutions, sorry but I don't remember their names, that have horrible security and turn on backdoors for the Chinese. By horrible security, I mean they'll upload all kinds of illegal crap to share and get your business in trouble.