Blogging Tips

Fight Spam with Your Personal Website Hosting Service

Finding Reasonable Prices on Personal Web Hosting Services

Moving From Free Blogs to Web Hosting Blogs

Using Blog Hosting Instead of Free Blog Services

What Blog Web Hosting Should Offer

Backing Up Your Posts with Personal Web Page Hosting

Creating Your Own Blog Network with Blog Reseller Hosting

Fight Spam with Your Personal Website Hosting Service
If you've ever been overrun by spam in your email or comments, you know how irritating and time consuming spam can be. Luckily, WingSix's website hosting services offer at least one option to help you fight spam.

• Check out Spam Assassin, which WingSix provides
• Use cpanel to easily install plugins for your blog that control spam. Akismet is a very effective comment spam controller for Wordpress.

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Finding Reasonable Prices on Personal Web Hosting Services
If you've been thinking that personal web hosting services are much too pricey for your budget, you may be surprised at how reasonable WingSix's services are.

• See if paying ahead of time for quarterly or annual service will get you a discounted rate on your hosting plan.
• Inquire with WingSix about discounts or a free month of hosting for referrals. This way, you can recommend the company to your friends and get your hosting even more inexpensively.

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Moving From Free Blogs to Web Hosting Blogs
If you have been wanting to transition your free blogs to WingSix's web hosting blogs, but are overwhelmed at the thought of cutting and pasting all those posts, there is another option. When you are transferring your posts to a Wordpress blog, you can do so with a few clicks of your mouse. Wordpress offers support for you to import posts from Textpattern, Moveable Type, Dotclear, Blogger and Live Journal.

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Using Blog Hosting Instead of Free Blog Services
You may be wondering why anyone would want to pay for blog hosting when there are so many free blog services. Well, even though Mama said to never look a gift horse in the mouth, this is one time you should take a hard look at that freebie before you use it. There are quite a few drawbacks to free blogs that WingSix's blog hosting addresses. Consider these drawbacks before you choose one of these free services:

* Free blogs can be shut down by the hosting company with the click of a button. All of your hard work could be gone without notice if someone else flags your blog as being spammy or inappropriate, even if it is not.

* Free blogs don't look as professional as a blog with its own domain name on a paid blog hosting server. Many people automatically place less importance on free blogs because they feel like the blogger isn't serious enough about getting a message across to pay a few dollars a month for hosting.

* Free blogs can limit your income potential. Many free services put their own ads on your blog, which means your visitors may click on the free host's banners or links instead of yours. Other free services only allow you to use certain forms of advertising.

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What Blog Web Hosting Should Offer
So you've decided to take the plunge and pay for blog web hosting from WingSix so you can speed up the process of becoming a professional stay-at-home blogger. Here are some of the most important things WingSix offers:

• SQL databases. WingSix has databases, allowing you to install a blog with a few clicks of the mouse.
• Wingsix offers fantastico. This turns blog installation into an almost instant process.
• Umlimited email accounts and email forwarding are also included in the hosting features. You'll want to be able to communicate with your readers without relying completely on comments, especially if you sell ad space when your blog becomes popular.

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Backing Up Your Posts with Personal Web Page Hosting
There's not much worse than uploading a new theme or tweaking something on your existing theme, only to find out that you've destroyed your blog. Luckily, WingSix provides several ways for you to keep your blog safe from this type of mistake.

• WingSix backs up your site automatically on a frequent basis.
• It also offers PhpMyAdmin. You can use this simple program to back up your blog's database or back up your entire site for yourself.

It's also a good idea to make sure you backup your web content by FTP, as well.

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Creating Your Own Blog Network with Blog Reseller Hosting
If you are interested in becoming a professional blogger or you are planning to start several different blogs, you may want to take a look at WingSix's blog reseller hosting. While you can create your blogs with standard hosting, blog reseller hosting is a much better idea for a blog network because:

• WingSix's blog reseller hosting allows you to add unlimited domain names to your account for the same low price instead of buying a separate hosting account for each blog or having your blogs on subdomains.
• WingSix's reseller hosting allows you to eventually expand your network to include other bloggers by setting up hosting for their blogs.
• This option allows you to earn additional income by selling hosting to bloggers who aren't in your network or to bloggers in your network that want personal blogs.

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