After weeks of research, planning, and consideration, I had a topic I wanted to write on, a niche within that topic, I had decided to have my own domain and had decided on a domain name, and had decided I wanted to use Wordpress to power my blog.  The next logical step was to pick a web host.

Since I knew I wanted to use Wordpress, I know I wanted a host that was compatible with Wordpress.  Some of my research had indicated that not all web hosts were.  So I decided to check out Wordpress’s official site to see what it might say.  Sure enough, there I found a page of hosts that worked well with Wordpress.

I then turned to Google, and one by one I did exhaustive searches to find reviews of the various hosts, paying particular attention to any reference of how well it worked with Wordpress.  While I found glowing reviews on all of the hosting services, I also found just as many posts from people complaining about customer service, and service outages, that is on all but one service.

I never read a bad thing about AN Hosting.  In fact, it would have been an easier decision, but I was hung up on the one year payment in advance.  Every other service was offering billing a month at a time.  But the more that I read about blogging, and the time it takes to grow a blog, the more the idea of signing up for a year actually started to appeal to me.  If I was paid up for a year, I figured, I might as well work at it a year.  Kind of a built-in motivation.

It was at this time that all the other perks of an AN Hosting account started to shine through.  Not only do you get your domain name registered for free, but they will re-register it every year for free as long as you have the hosting account with them.  That alone is amazing, but considering the ample space and bandwidth, the UNLIMITED subdomains, and the fact that you can host another nine full domain names with them for no extra charge, how could you, or I, go wrong?  And when you do the math, the payment per month is no more than any other reputable site.

 So I chose to go with AN Hosting, and I have to report at the time of this writing I could not be happier.  I’ve been able to reach customer service by way of email, phone, and the coolest feature, Live Chat, at odd hours and received patient and complete answers to the most basic of newbie questions.

If you think you might be interested in using AN Hosting as your host, check them out HERE.