Should I Host My Site at WA or Some Place Else?

This question was recently asked by one of the members here and I think I might be able to shed some light. What follows is my "experience influenced" opinion.

The concern of this individual was that WA was not listed in the top 10 places to host WordPress blogs. This is an astute observation especially from a new member.

There's a reason that WA is not in the top 10. It's because their primary goal is not to host your site, although they do give a great deal of priority toward making sure that it is always up.

Their support is good. WA support always seems to be able to overcome the issues as they come at them.

They aren't the fastest hosting provider, they don't give you access to the low-level things (something I don't like, but newbies likely wouldn't even be aware of).

But I would advise you to consider the following...

Minutiae is an Excuse to Procrastinate

Do not get caught up in the hosting minutiae. Until you have a site that has 10,000 visitors a week MINIMUM there's no point in even worrying about it.

What you will get from WA as you learn is a constant reminder in the site manager when you need to focus on more content, or getting more interaction.

The comment tools and site-feedback tools ONLY work if you host at WA.

Since WA is handling your site for you then you don't have to worry about forgetting site passwords. You also don't have to deal with making certain that security is set up correctly. Depending on the host, you're going to have that concern.

You don't have to worry about acquiring an SSL certificate, getting it installed and making sure that the MySQL database that runs WordPress is staying up to date.

In short, WA removes practically ALL concerns and helps to guide you during your initial journey.

Since you can always backup your site and WordPress is pretty much a mainstay in any hosting company's repertoire, my advice is (unless you have an established site getting a lot of traffic)...

Stick to WA hosting and concentrate on your content.

Concentrate on the courses.

Concentrate on engaging visitors and getting comments.

WA is a great hosting platform, especially for the majority of people that join. Once you've become successful and you are getting really serious (meaning you have some good traffic or you need low-level access to things), THEN start shopping around.

We humans often tend to focus on the minutiae as an excuse to steer clear of what actually matters.

On the other hand, if you already have a site somewhere else, especially if it's established, I'd leave it there ...but that gives you no excuse then not to start writing right now! Oh, and get back to those courses you've been avoiding!

Fight Your Nature!

Not only will you thank yourself later for writing the content and learning the lessons you need to succeed, you'll know much, much more about what to look for in a hosting company once you've gotten your "cyber lumps" from the best teacher in the world ...experience.

Hopefully this helps those of you that have been asking this question.

I actually speak briefly about this topic in my Wealthy Affiliate University Review on my site as well for those that are interested.