Speed of a web page is now an important factor for getting better search position in Google.com results. Getting higher speeds is usually impossible for WordPress blogs on a shared web hosting account if there are a lot of static images, files, plugins and streaming media hosted on the server,  and if thousand of people are accessing them at the same time. The concept of CDN is very simple.  A CDN takes copies of CSS,  images, JavaScript, video-audio streams of the blog  in different network locations worldwide and sends it to the users near to that location.  So ultimately, the shared web hosting server handles only the database queries and loading HTML and other important files. Thus the overall experience of the user and the health of the server improves by making use of the CDN network. Recently, we purchased a MAXCDN account to use it with Techknowl.com and a few other WordPress blogs in our network. MAXCDN works perfectly in combination with W3 Total Cache Plugin for WordPress.  Here in this article we will tell how can add a CDN in WordPress blog with MAXCDN step-by step.

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Dreamhost is well known company providing shared, PS, PS MySQL web hosting services. Many people choose Dreamhost due to the ease of script installation and the minimal cost of hosting. Dreamhost allows the use of discount coupons and promo codes by all new customers for the first year. So they can purchase all Dreamhost service at maximum discount and with free domain and IP address. Like that we share in every month, here is the Dreamhost promo code for the month July 2010.

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Hostgator LLC, one of the leading web hosting provider with more than two million hosted domains announced their plans to start with VPS hosting services. We earlier covered the advantage of Hostgator shared web hosting over some of its competitors like Dreamhost .  Though little bit costly, Hostgator provides good uptime, industry standard features, excellent support etc. that everyone is looking from a reliable hosting service. But  every webhosting company has limitations on shared hosting plans. VPS service provides a virtual server on shared environment so that users can customize the server resources according to the plans chosen. Hostgator now offers shared, reseller and dedicated hosting plans. The new Hostgator VPS plans are lunched in test mode and only available for the first 200 customers .

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Hostgator and Dreamhost are two web hosting services much discussed among webmasters. Dreamhost provides cost effective shared web hosting with unlimited plans and easy to use control panel that’s ideal for  newcomers. Hostgator specializes on the reliable and fast web hosting with great live chat support. Hostgator provides advanced cPanel web hosting management software for its customers. CPanel  implementation usually cost more. However, without cPanel, Dreamhost charges the same as Hostgator. First time users would love Dreamhost setup as here the installation of scripts can be done on one click. Both Dreamhost and Hostgator provide promo codes and coupons for new customers. Promo codes on Dreamhost will cut down the prices for the first year web hosting to near 90 % of the total cost. Whereas Hostgator provides coupon codes for up to 20 % discount for all webs hosting plans payable via Paypal. Checkout our comparison between Hostgator and Dreamhost to make your choice.

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WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms. Nowadays, People are moving to WordPress due to its user friendliness, advanced themes, plugins and options for customization. The problem associated with WordPress is that it needs a web hosting account. However, opening a hosting account is a costly investment for new bloggers. There are free WordPress hosting services like 000webhost, that lets you to install WordPress on any domain. What you need is a 9 $ domain, and the rest is free. There is no advertising and you have complete control over your space. So if you are in Blogger and planning to move to WordPress, you can take a look at 000webhost. Here we will explain how to install WordPress on 000webhost free hosting.

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WordPress is probably the best blogging software in the world. There are thousands of reasons for people choosing WordPress as their favorite blogging platform. Some of them are its customization options with themes, plugins, and its search engine friendliness. I think you know about WordPress.com allowing free/ad supported hosting of our domain. However, there we cannot use our own advertisements, install custom themes, plugins, etc. So if you want to take the full control of what appear in your blog, then purchasing your own online web space is recommended. There are commercial web hosting services that charge from 2$ per month for unlimited WordPress hosting. Another option is to start with a free web hosting service and later move on to dedicated hosting. Here in this article we discuss few popular free WordPress webhosting services that allow WordPress and php hosting.

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