Hosting A Wordpress Blog
Maybe you’re an owner of a hosted WordPress.com blog who’d like to have more freedom. Or perhaps you need a more powerful blogging platform than Blogger or Typepad. This short article will take you through the necessary steps of hosting a Wordpress blog:
Step 1
You need to buy a domain name. It should be easy to remember and relevant to your site’s theme. To make things simpler and lower the overall costs, it’s a good idea to buy domain and hosting in a single package.
Step 2
Make sure the web hosting control panel includes Wordpress installation. The latest Wordpress version is 2.9.x and your version shouldn’t be under 2.5.x.
Step 3
Your hosting account should have:
* MySQL 4.0 or greater
* PHP 4.3 or greater
Ask the hosting provider about all the details before buying an account
Step 4
Major web hosting providers usually offer a standard pre-configured database in a hosting account. Creating a database on your own is slightly complicated for beginners, so if you’re not up to the task, it’s better to ask the hosting provider to set it up for you.
Step 5
Installing Wordpress should be very easy with most web hosting control panels, if you’re using CPanel, click the Fantastico icon, find Wordpress on the left sidebar, type in the Wordpress username and password and then click the installation button. That’s all.
Step 6
Go to www.[yourdomain].com, if the Wordpress is properly installed, you should see a standard template. Type in www.[yourdomain].com/wp-admin on your browser. On the login menu, fill the username and password fields and you’re ready to blog!
