Web hosting services for either Web sites or self-hosted blogs, such as Wordpress, have created significant cost-savings for users but also problems. With the downright cheap cost of site hosting plans, people are not only creating more blogs – which is good – but using the online hosting services to backup their computers and gigabytes of other stuff – which is not-for-good.
Hosting costs have come down because of shared IP, an online environment where all customers live in one large basket, and are impacted adversely when anyone misbehaves. For example, Web hosting providers are finding the access ports of their servers clogged for hours by individual customers who are backing up their computers.  Worst yet, there has been a rash of malicious robotic attacks – called denial of service attacks – that can have the result of bringing all blog traffic on a server to a halt for anywhere from minutes to days.
These issues are today effecting all hosting companies, without exception. Regardless of what you might pay for service, there’s a chance that your Wordpress blog could be the innocent victim of service interruptions.
What’s the solution? Some people have found it to be cost-effective to host their blog or blogs at not one but two different Web hosting companies. Then, if one company has an issue, you can simply redirect the name servers of your blog(s) over to the other company. That’s a good solution provided you have taken the time to keep the blog database up-to-date … because it contains all posts, images, content.
What are some good blog hosting companies? Lunarpages.com, Midphase.com, InMotionHosting.com, and Hostgator.com are inexpensive and good. MediaTemple.net is outstanding.
Beware of some tricky Terms of Service at a few hosting companies, should you decide to cancel. While most hosting companies offer a full refund within the first 30 days of service, others offer only a credit, which is useless if you don’t like their service.
Hi there. I'm Michael Pollock, and I train coaches, consultants and other solo-professionals on how to use the web to impact more people, earn more money and live a bigger life ... 
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Hey David
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