Looking for a Host?

I’ve started a new site recently just for fun and needed to find hosting for it. We’ve been going through some hosting changes at work as well. The rough part is finding a company that gives you a good plan – what is a good plan anyways? – and provides good support for when you need it. Little to no downtime is a plus too. A lot of times hosting companies will start out great and then slide downhill. This happens especially after you fork over a year’s worth of hosting fees.

The easiest way I’ve seen to compare the hosting companies is here: budget web hosting. You don’t actually buy the hosting through them, but they give you the rundown of the best deals going on. They offer hosting reviews and a nice Frequently Asked Questions section. Also on their site, you will find web hosting news. A lot of it isn’t going to be interesting unless you follow that sort of stuff, but it seems comprehensive. They also offer some Google tools like a link popularity checker and a datacenter checker. This site offers a lot, but most of it leads to other sites. It truly seems to be a directory. While a lot of could be less than worthwhile, the quick comparison on the home page looks great. It could potentially answer a lot of questions

I’ve thought about moving this blog to a hosted domain and saying good-bye to the free stuff, but at this point I really can’t justify it. Blogger has been good to me so far. You really can’t beat the way it integrates with Google’s other stuff like adsense and analytics (convenient, right?). So while you won’t see changes here yet, this might be a good place to start if you are considering moving up to something more permanent.