What is WordPress Hosting?

WordPress is currently one of the biggest platform for blogging and website development and thus WordPress hosting is on high demand at present. WordPress hosting provides you many options and features to make your blog or website attractive and user friendly.

What is WordPress Hosting?


WordPress is presently one of the most famous blogging platform deployed across the globe. WorsPress is an open source project, which is quite user friendly, which has made it one of the largest tools of blogging and web hosting at present.

Basically, there are two types of WordPress platforms called WordPress.com and WordPress.org and the web hosting criteria for both the platforms are different. When we talk about WordPress.com, the hosting is quite easy as the site is hosted by WordPress and hence costs you nothing. But this type of hosting has certain limitations as it does not support plugins. In addition to that, WordPress.com is "ad-supported" is add supported and hence the ads might get displayed randomly on your blog.

Now, in case of other platform .i.e. WordPress.org , you need to select your own hosting services through external sources and need to install the program yourself. But the major benefit with this is it runs through your own program and hence you can customize and modify your blog as per your need and requirements.

The web hosting service provider for WrodPress will provide you domain name, platform, and space as per you requirement. In addition to that, firewall protection, domain registration and an email account is also included in the hosting package. But, it is very important to choose the best type of WordPress hosting for you depending upon your requirements before executing your blog or website on internet world. Some types of WordPress hosting models are mentioned below:

WordPress Business Hosting:

If you are looking forward for a website for your business purpose or commercial use, this is the best option for you as it will enhance the technical support for your company.

Shared WordPress Hosting

If you are beginning a new website for the first time, this is a perfect option. Shared WordPress Hosting is available in a very affordable price and is the most common and popular hosting type for WordPress.

WordPress VPS Hosting

This WordPress hosting type is quite similar to Shared WordPress Hosting as it is also very cost effective. In addition to that, it also offers you a secure hosting account.

Wordpress is one of the best blogging tool developed using PHP and MySQL. It is open source and can be downloaded from http://wordpress.org/. Wordpress provides the admin panel for easily managing the content of the website. The admin of the website can add/search/update and delete the content of the website.

There are many plugins for the Wordpress blogging engine which can be install to add new functionality on the top of main Wordpress engine. Wordpress is very popular and millions of the websites are running on the Wordpress.

You an easily add or remove the themes and plugins from the Wordpress website. Here are the list of top Wordpress plugins: