As you know, toptut.com has moved from one web hosting service to another — already 3 times. Coming a long way from a small shared account to a powerful dedicated server, I learnt a lot about what one needs to think off, when picking a hosting service and here is what I can share.

As we live in the era of blogs and CMS, bandwidth isn’t really an issue anymore since it’s cheap and mostly left unused in hundreds of GB’s, something we couldn’t even

Themes are perhaps the most important components in getting a Wordpress website. But it is not the only one. Running a successful Wordpress site includes a number of factors that, if excluded, can cause the most pimped up theme-decorated site to crash and burn. Metaphors aside, here are two of the most important components required for the ultimate Wordpress experience.

1. Hosting

Let’s start at the beginning. You may think the first thing to do is downloading the Wordpress software. Right? Wrong. Before you even start thinking about

It’s really great to see the evolution hosting services made over the past years, remember how expensive bandwidth was? Today, overpriced hosts are history and no one would pay more than 15 dollars for a good hosting service. While cheap web hosting is allover the place, it is also becoming hard to chose the right hosting provider, so occasionally I am taking a look at the new and old companies to see what do they have to offer.

A few days ago, hostingmetro.com caught my attention. Their

We all know that the best way to choose a new webhosting service is to compare, compare, and once again – compare before buying. Each webhost has something different to offer, and I am not talking only about the amount of bandwidth and disk space; today hosts beat the competition with each other by offering a free domain upon sign-up, free credits to advertise with Google Adsense and Yahoo, and other various goodies to lean you towards hosting your site with them.

From personal experience I can tell you that comparing hosting companies

When you have planned to buy a web hosting service, bandwidth is one of the major factors that you must be concerned about. Although many people recommend having high bandwidth, this is not an absolute requirement for all. In fact, having an excessive bandwidth may end up with tremendous frustration, since you have to pay a high fee against something that you are not actually using.

The Concept of Bandwidth
Bandwidth refers to the amount the data transferred to the visitors computer from your web space. In other words, bandwidth refers to the amount of data transferred through the network wire in a specific period of time.  When you are planning to buy a hosting service, the bandwidth that your host will suggest you, is typically counted on a monthly basis. This is mainly due to the reason that the web hosting service providers pay a huge fee for their massive broadband internet connection. This is the few that is ultimately carried over to the consumers in the form of payment against their individual service plan.

Calculation of Bandwidth
There is a simple calculation for estimating the required bandwidth size of the website. The formula is: total size of the web pages in the site x monthly traffic volume = required bandwidth. I know it sounds confusing, but here is a brief explanation of the formula along with an example.

After trying REALLY a lot of hosts from free  to paid, from shared to dedicated, I thought I will post some of my reviews of the webhosting services, so you’d know what more or less you are getting. I will only highlight the CHEAP hosts (under 10$ a month) bearing in mind we all want to get a good and affordable deal.

Before I post my offer, please note that the $97 off coupon code are NO LONGER available. Dreamhost does not accept them anymore, $50 is the maximum discount you can get, and this offer gives you both maximum discount and domain, so you really won’t find a better deal.

So, this is a new deal I am offering to anyone who wants to sign up to Dreamhost.com. Please note that in order to receive the discount you need to pay with credit card and not paypal (due to the frauds

I often get emails asking what web hosts am I using for hosting all my sites and the answer is — I use many. I try to host each few sites on a separate IP, first of all, if the host goes down only a few websites will suffer from downtime, and secondly — link building within my own network brings more benefits. All this pays out spending a few dollars a month extra on each host.

Recently I got my hosting account at Lunar Pages. This host is often compared to