All About Kimberly

With the fun I’m having blogging and the little bit of money I’ve made, I’ve had a few friends ask me for advice in starting blogs of their own. While their are plenty of websites where you can host your blog for free, I actually recommend that if at all possible each of them go ahead and buy their own domain name. It makes your blog more personal, and if you do want to try to earn profits off of your blog, you’ll find that you can make much more money with your own domain than you can on the big blogging conglomerates.

If you decided to take this plunge, you must decide who to host your website with. This will involve purchasing your domain and storage space for your site. It is very important to make a wise decision when choosing your host. I have learned this the hard way. While I’m happy with my provider for this site, I have run into difficulties with another site that I chose to buy domain sites from because my sites are down at least once every day (that i catch). So I am looking and doing a little research so that when my year expires, I can possibly move that domain.

Network Solutions is one possible host I can honestly say I will now consider for web site hosting.  Network Solutions was a recent winner of the FindMyHost Editors Choice award.  This in itself shows them to be worthy of consideration. I’ve reviewed their prices, and they are very competitive with other hosts that have positive feedback (charging less than $10 a month for your storage space and registering your domain for free). In addition, if you want to expand into a larger site or have mroe traffic and need additional storage space, they have different options.

Other benefits of Network Solutions? I’m impressed by the fact that they offer 24/7 Customer Service. Even with my current provider of this site who I’ve had pretty good luck with, I’ve not had that option.  In addition, I host a few other websites within my storage space and Network Solutions is capable of hosting those sites as they do in fact support PHP and MySQL. They also advertise 99.9% uptime which is very important when considering a web host (that is my current problem with some of my other sites).