Hello You! I hope you found a lot of value in the post last week around finding your perfect domain name. I didn't want to leave you hanging for too long that is why the topic of today's post is 9 Awesome Tips To Find The Best Wordpress Hosting. Having a domain is all well and good but creating your website is very important. How else will the world or better yet your audience really understand what your business is all about? I have a friend who constantly buys domain names with the hope of one day having the perfect domain name before she starts her blog. I can assure you that 5 or even 10 years will pass and all she will have to show as an end result is a list of wonderful domain names. Analysis paralysis is when you wait for everything to be perfect before you start your business or side hustle or blog. Don't wait anymore just get started. The first step after buying your domain name is finding a WordPress hosting provider. Here are 9 things we will look at to check to see if this website host is a good provider for your needs. These are: * SSL Cert * SSD Drive * Storage size * Cpanel * Wordpress hosting * Unlimited emails * Support * Free migration * Unlimited bandwidth 1. SSL Cert SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. I don't want to bore you with technical jargon so let me explain it in a way that you can understand. As ladies we love shopping, okay, not all ladies like shopping but I know a few who do. The Internet has opened up the world and given many people the ability to shop online. Over 10+ years ago I purchased my wedding dress online and I did not get to try it on until 2 weeks before the wedding. You may think, that is not so special but picture this in your head that was before the year 2000 and I lived in Europe, purchased it online from a US website and had the dress shipped to the Caribbean. Why was I so brave (or crazy)? Lol! Because I had trust in that website and they had a big padlock on their payment page assuring me that my payment was secure. I honestly cannot remember if I paid via Paypal or not but the point is that padlock in green on most websites, even if you don't sell anything online is what is called an SSL cert. Google has made it an absolute requirement that every website should have this if they want their site to be indexed and ranked on the first page of the search engine results page for their chosen keyword. The Internet Security Research Group is a non-profit organisation that is providing free SSL certificates via a program called Let's Encrypt. Check out the screenshot example below from WPEngine. I will not recommend them for newbies. All you need to do is find a Wordpress hosting provider who includes this as part of the package and you will be golden. 2. SSD Drive SSD stands for solid state drive. I am trying to find the best way of explaining this to you without causing you to fall asleep altogether. The best way to help you is by explaining what the old hard disk drives (HDD) did to access storage. The older drives consisted of a lot of moving parts, spinning disks and a removable read/write heads. These newer drives (SSD) are solid throughout which means that they are silent and they tend to use flash technology so they don't generate heat as much as the old technology. See the below example from Inmotion Hosting. They also access the data much quicker when looking for that file that you stored this time last year.
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