TIPS: Choosing a free WordPress Hosting

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Hi all, today I want to give some tips for you that newebie or who just want to make a blog using wordpress CMS. Actually not the tips, but this is an experience of my own, who happened to already know a bit about wordpress (every day with wordpress until shaggy head hahaha).

Ok, immediately wrote, so why do wordpress? ...

WordPress or especially WordPress.ORG, is a CMS (Content Management System) blogs, functionality yourself a lot, but can make a blog, can also make a site using that for quite propesional, of friends already in the know sites like the New York Times, or Bloomberg's blog, they mostly use WordPress as the base site. The reason other than simple settings, WordPress is also able to handle something that heavy-weight (weight here can mean a professional). Ok, but where tips?, .. Well if we are familiar with what is called WordPress now we're talking about hosting ...

Hosting, not all the hosting provider can support WordPress, there are times when a site hosting offer numerous features, but it is not a guarantee of support with WordPress. But don't worry, because a lot of paid hosting site that offers "Full Support" for WorPress. Only this time I will be more specialized for the search for a free hosting. Well what should we know before looking for free hosting that is appropriate for your WordPress blog?

Here are some things friends should consider if you want to find a free hosting for WordPress blogs.

1. Find a hosting which supports PHP, MySQL and Cron Job.
Why should it? ... WordPress 3.0 requires at least PHP version 5.0 MySQL and sometimes if we want to install plugins that require repetitive jobs automatically, we also need a Cron Job which to do it.

2. Try to select which already use cPanel hosting
Besides being easily understandable, hosting offering cPanel facilities are also usually very complete, and most importantly, they usually already include also an automatic installer like Fantastico or Softaculous. So we do not have to first download the WordPress files, because the live install it.

3. Do not stare at the space offered
WordPress only requires space for core files around 17 MB, the space that we need only to posts such as image files and others, while for video files, we can save it in other places like YouTube and Metacafe.

4. Find a web host support mod_rewrite enabled and safe_mode off
For what it is? ... Safe_mode off will help us later on when we want to install the various plugins, while mod_rewrite enabled allows us later to change the file _htaccess for security also for SEO optimization.

Well maybe it was just a few, actually a lot of free hosting which offers features that are almost in accordance with the above criteria, only very few actually provide ample room to move we make will optimize our blog.

There are several free hosting can I refer here including: ATBHOST, FreeWebHostingArea, Main-Host and FreeCCHost. For more details, your friends can try it for yourself, sign up for these sites, there are some who are P4H (Post 4 Host) and there is also absolutely free