Question: I am searching for a good news website hosting service, that is cheap. Is hostgator a good choice?

Answer:  HostGator is an excellent host for your new site, although technically, there is no such thing as a news website hosting service.  Why?  Because it’s just plain web hosting.  What you put on your site is up to you.

Where are you going to get your news from?  Do you already have sources or will you be using an RSS feed to pull news into your site?  There are both free and paid RSS feeds from news aggregators.  Just do a search query on “rss news feeds”.

Building A New Website The Easy Way

WordPress is the perfect platform for your site.  HostGator already has the WordPress software in the control panel in the Software section in the Fantastico De Luxe software installer.  There are tons of themes and plugins already made for WordPress so you don’t have to spend your time building a site.  A magazine-style theme is perfect for a news website.  It will give you a polished, professional look and you can put different RSS news feeds into each of the featured categories.

Selecting The Right Web Hosting Plan

One cool thing about HostGator is the flexibility of their hosting plans.  Start out with a basic plan like the Baby gator plan.  It will allow you to host multiple domains on a single account.  As you find your readership growing and your site requiring more resources to run that could be affecting others on the shared server, then HG can upgrade you to a VPS account. Later, when your site explodes with popularity, they can upgrade your account to a dedicated server solution.

I had a friend who started out with a Baby gator plan.  She runs a lot of websites and has a lot of traffic.  She upgraded to a medium-sized VPS plan, but later found the plan to be overkill, so she adjusted it to the next lower level.  HostGator has several different VPS plans to choose from and you can pick which ever best suits your needs at the time, making adjustments as you need to.

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