Hey what's up guys crazy true story. We almost lost $20,000 in a single month because we are hosted with the wrong platform at the time we were using the wrong blog post.
Thankfully we switch just before major problem arise with this very very popular host that really saved a big month in our business is actually our biggest and most profitable month so guys today were going to be talking and and you know we've used quite a few hosts@creatinggo.co reviews all sorts of the big names that you would imagine including free hosting organ talk about all of that today.
And for those of you who don't have a host and haven't started yet. Were going to give you our recommendation on the best host that you can start with to get started on your blog today, so it's gonna be a great lesson.
I'll see you on the inside by what is going on, guys. The blog hosting review has started so today in this lesson if you don't know what first off if you don't know my name's Alex and Ernie and I run create and go.co with my girlfriend Lauren that this is the website URL, but all avoid create don't go does it teaches the lessons that we learn on our health and wellness blog avocado.com that's avocado with you.
Feel free to check it out at any time, but these these lessons that we towel and our nightmare story where he almost lost out on $20,000 happened with avocado.com so just stick clarify that out.
No, we don't just blog about blogging. We actually have health and wellness website that makes a good amount of money. So what recovery today is why free blog hosting is never free, wherein talk about why WordPress is the single best platform for blogging and where most newbies and whites were most newbies need to start for hosting services.
We have used in our experienced why 850,000+ bloggers use blue host in our nightmare story and how to get your blog set up in 10 minutes or less. It's going to be awesome. So the first thing we'll talk about is when you're thinking about selecting a blog post a lot of people look for what's free and they go oh I should just, you know, do whatever is free and I want you to understand something here is that there's this basic economic theory.
That's true for blogging as it is for anything else in life is that there's no such thing as a free lunch. What that means is that that that statement just means that it's costing somebody something to give you that lunch and so there's no such thing as free and you gotta think about it from their perspective, a company such as a big one that's popular is like blogger.com right this company has to make money.
This is a massive company with lots of lots of employees. Lots of people they have to manage etc. and so they in general need to make money to pay their employees and to do that.
So when they advertise. It is free. It's really not free and here's why you would not want to use them versus unwanted ads.
Many free sites put ugly unsightly ads on your website to make money. That's risk and effects of it and you don't really control those ads what they look like it's okay to make money with ads sometimes but when you're not controlling what they look like and want their advertising.
Not a good situation limited features. Often these websites limit limit common features and offer them only for more money so very similar to a free app on your phone that makes you buy things once inside to actually operate.
The app is freemium. That's was called freemium so you it's sort of free but you have to pay this premium of these gaming things inside on the app and that's really what happens with these blogging platforms are always gonna be limited features, limited in bandwidth and speed you get what you pay for her guys not paying for bandwidth and speed.
It costs that money the cost that company money to run your website and they need to pay for it somehow. And they're going to get that money from you. If you have a blog that's doing well.
You have to pay money to move your website you know you got a lot of influx of Pinterest traffic because you're doing really well and our servers can handle it. Great you know you can upgrade your blog for this fee guys the DC what's happening here you're going they're going to get their money from you to start a blog.
There's no true domain name, but we've all seen Jo Jenny loves.blogspot.com and the problem with that is kinda simple is that it's not trusted. Is that a.blogspot saying that you don't want to even pay for the Army.
What is it like nine dollars to start your blog it doesn't say good things about me trusting you, especially for giving me advice and I'm supposed to take advice from you. I doesn't seem like you're very successful are doing very well.
The customer service support and on. This is common with paid as well as unpaid that some customer sorts service is not going to be good. Specifically, though for these free ones.
Don't expect it much more than I you know I feel like I got to the point. There's no such thing as a free lunch. In other words, free hosting is not for you if you want a fast website good customer service fully control how your blog looks, the ability to get a large audience, your website, which are gonna need if you want to be successful at all.
A business that is not just a blog. No unsolicited ads your own domain name a successful blog, etc. like pretty much everybody and that is why you shouldn't use free hosting and I could go more into it, but I think I should move on to the next parts, so why WordPress.org is the best plat patent platform to pair with your blog hosting we started we when you start selecting your blogging platform before you select a host.
We do this because only once you know the platform you have. Should you ever get a matching host. For instance, there are different platforms you can use, but I'm going to make the argument why WordPress is the only platform you should use.
There are about 75.6 million bloggers that use the platform. That should tell you something pretty much every successful blogger I know only uses WordPress and I believe WordPress websites powered 25% of the total Internet just to give you an idea they're pretty big and pretty good at what they do.
First off I WordPress is something you need to learn this. I started out on a free platform called wicks a long long time ago and the problem with that. Looking back is that robbed me of really the precious time that I should've spent mastering WordPress the time that I should have been using WordPress site and getting much better at outspending all his time on these weird platforms like wicks and Squarespace and and those others while WordPress remains the most powerful blogging platform ever.
As you grow in your ability as a becoming a better blogger. You're going to want certain features, capabilities, blogging tools, and general awesomeness not provided by other platforms. Okay, back to this since most bloggers out there use this one platform.
All updates all new tools all new cool things that come through are going to only come through WordPress and only much, much later are blogs like Squarespace and wicks and all these other places going to catch up with what WordPress can do and that is how it's always going to be because the majority of people use WordPress at most bloggers run into this exact problem they start using different blogging platform other than WordPress here about a cool new plug-in are the perfect feature for their audience and they realize they can't use it because it's only offered by WordPress very similar.
If you have an iPhone are if you had an android at the time. You know how iPhone seems to get all the new apps coming out in this only happened for a period of time right but I iPhone used to get not to hate on the android users out there but iPhones would get apps that android wouldn't have.
It's this it's very the similar thing is that most app makers know well. Everybody owns an iPhone so that's the app that I want to make. It is a clean content editor, you can't. I can't say enough about WordPress.
This is our backend of avocado and I'll just give you a little little peek, but the content editor is just really simple and they keep updating it and making it better. Here's your posts, you can just add a new post right here by clicking here.
You see your website stats all sorts of cool information you to start typing your post. It's got all sorts of editing features.
WordPress continues to grow and get better better and their content editor's awesome deal of resources for days like we just talked about its professional that it is the blog platform that we used to run our six-figure blog avocado.com and is why every professional I know use it and it's the goat.
It is the greatest of all time. As far as creating your own blog and creating your own website and it doesn't have to be for a blog even e-commerce sites, all sorts of stuff. WordPress is just spectacular.
So let's go through the top four blog hosting services rated are then reviewed from actual experience. I saw a lot of blog hosting reviews when I typed it into Google the old grooves and I noticed a lot of it.
It is a lot of assumptive and this is what I see as I see like these, 2017's best, Bob applied blog tyrant and all these people and they're just assuming that that that while this host is better than this host based on this feature because I've used personally.
All of these hosts so I those are the ones I'm going to review and give you my honest thoughts on host gator. Another very popular service.
I spent a good time out time with the service of the beginning of my online journey in entrepreneurship. The truth is site speed becomes particularly slow with them and it it seemed to be quite overrated.
I give them a 3.5 out of five WP engine was good service, but the backend was incredibly complex that more complex than it needed to be for a beginner. This can be a real big time sink.
If you're running around trying to understand what your dashboard looks like back here or what the backend of your hosting looks like it. It makes it very difficult just to publish blog posts and as a blogger, you just need to be focused on creating good content so it becomes this issue where these this, that your creative mind gets slowed down by all these technical issues.
You don't know how to follow and that was why give WordPress engine a 4/5 sacred and the service was fine until we started doing well and now this is platform to go into it as soon as we started doing well. Everything went to well you can read that and they wanted to pay us an extra cost to pay an extra $300 a month to handle the large influence thoughts of traffic we're receiving and I'm a tell you little bit more about that in a sec and inside give them a 3/5.
I could give number two on five to be honest, but I will nicer than that. It's funny because a lot of bloggers these days are all all about their site ground game and it's just not what we have found blue host by far is the best and most reliable service I have ever used that we have ever used, and it's somehow more affordable.
It's easy to use. Set up and customer service is top notch and the only problem we ever had was fixed relatively painlessly by a call to their customer support number.
The thing that one other big difference between site ground blue houses. I have a number I can call at all times. Whenever I have a problem and I can immediately hop on.
If you want to go. I would go to create and go.co\blue host but if I ever run into an issue I can contact their support team right here.
Just click chat and he opened up a chat. He said hey I've got this issue okay and there's a reason why 850,000 bloggers you plus use blue host run their blogs and NR nightmare story was that blue host really came to save us.
In a pinch. Our website just kept crashing. It was the month of June. My birthday month actually end the website just kept crashing and what we noticed is that we are getting higher amounts of our traffic from Pinterest users, but we would only will all happen at once because most people hop on Pinterest at like 6 PM to 8 PM is really a common time for a lot of spinners to be on Pinterest or what happened is they would all happen at once and our website would crashed out and I literally did everything I could to fix it.
We are being hosted with site ground at the time I did everything I possibly could to fix it at the time and it just would not get fixed at eight again up until the point of advisor said what what amount do I need to throw at this to have this fixed because we have to have a running website and they told me we are at the time repaying. I think $70 a month for a VPS service and then they they wanted to add an extra $300 a month to that to fix the problem.
I was just like this is unbelievable. And so what ended up happening as I had heard a lot about blue host at the time. I tried all of these other places and and wasn't really set on them being good places to host and so I called blue host and explained everything that was going on and how desperate I was for help and wrecked.
I talked to was ridiculously helpful. They walked me through everything that was happening why it was happening. Assuring me they could fix it and I ended up signing up with their service that night because he took care of me and he took care of my problems and I felt like I knew that our problems would be taken care of.
And so after he went through the pain of moving our website to a different host which can be quite a pain. Everything got immediately better.
Thank God we moved because literally the next week. Something amazing happened the next week right after we moved from blue host. We had a 980 in 97,000 people visit our website in a single day and this and we made over 40 grand in a single month because as of on this single day we made over $5000 in a day and we would have missed that if her with site ground no doubt in my mind with outside grant site ground was functioning if we can if we got this kind of traffic site ground would just it would've exploded likely we are website would just, you know, fell into itself like a dying star.
We were so lucky that we moved over and you can even see that income report of how much money we made in the details on on our viral pen that made that happen, but specifically it was very a very life-changing point in our business and if we had been with us site ground still that server would've failed and would've ended up costing us an insane amount of money more than $20,000.
I I know it's more than 20,000. I'm guessing at what would've been because site ground you know the website would've work sometimes not worked. Other times, but I'm sure it would've been over $20,000 and this is exactly why were so passionate about new bloggers getting it set up correctly because you never know what can happen.
This is why we are so passionate about blue host. Yeah, we've even partnered with them after you know you just just loving them, and we even have her have her own little link here and that's us that that's me and that's Lauren, and we actually have a completely special deal that only people who click our link and get to and it's 295 a month with blue host, which is the most ridiculously low and amazing thing for a new blogger to get started because and here's the reasons why we really love blue host guys here's exactly why.
If you're just getting started. Blue host and WordPress are best friends. A need to pair them together.
It really is perfect for newbies is the set up a simple easy understand helpful list as a newbie you got tons of stuff to learn, and the last thing you want to be doing is spending your time wondering how to navigate the host back in David 24 hour customer support which speaks to itself you if you'd like to chat to anybody you're really never alone with with blue host to help you answer questions you can call them and speak with a native English speaker guys.
This is important for me. I've been on the host with. I've been on the phone with people are not native English speakers and very difficult understand and you know even one of the websites.
I'm not gonna tell you which of these host but one of them. Most of the people I ever talk to her for it couldn't really help me as well as I needed to and it was really frustrating. It is one click it.
WordPress installation so it's so easy up a baby could do it. A blindfolded baby to do it just me again.
It's not that easy on other websites to hunt down things on some external cPanel hoping you don't break your website in the process you're going through the cPanel you're going throw the WordPress files and stuff like that.
You have no idea what you're doing at the beginning and I hardly know what I'm doing and so having this like one click installation has just been amazing.
You have unlimited domain names, blogs and email addresses. I comes with most host but it's worth being said, having have a party and install as many websites as you like. I like to redirect something so can't think of one right now.
It's easy to create and create your own customized email address for your name. I didn't think that this is a hard process for most people, until I talked to my sister who made her own website and it couldn't get the customize email address right had to try to work with this this lowball host that really it was a crappy host and that was the problem, but they made it this excruciating process just to get your own.
Customize email address and it took me less than 10 minutes the first time I use blue host not knowing how to use it to have this have this email address with blue host and now I can make it in less than two minutes it's it's ridiculously easy to make your own.
Customize email address installing WordPress on blue host can be done in 10 minutes. I mean for real 10 minutes. It's very easy and getting started today with word press is incredibly simple and easy to do to guys for many of you, you haven't started your own blog yet and it's time to do that.
I think it's time for you to move forward in the easiest way would be to go to our link via blue hosting it starts to create and go.co\blue host and you get the special deal for $2.95 per month.
It is a ridiculously awesome deal. Again, that we only get on our website and I think that's super cool that we get to partner with them because they like the things were doing at create and go.
Don't you worry my friend and you can have your blog set up today. It's that easy. You can have it set up today have your own post of your first post written and and be started and be well on your way to making an income blocking the guys that is our blog hosting review of really appreciate you guys again.
If you're ready to get started. It's just create and go.co\blue host will be linked to the description and in the comments section below. I'm looking forward to hearing about you guys starting your new blog. Touch on the