When you are a professional blogger, hosting of your blog is a major issue. These days, many people use WordPress and I have to say that when your blogging platform is WordPress then it requires a lot of bandwidth. So, if you have shared hosing and you are using WordPress platform then if your traffic increases then it can be a big problem. I suffered this kind of problem last year and I have learned my lesson in a very bad way. When you see advertisements of popular hosting company that they are giving you unlimited space and bandwidth then normally it means that you can post many pictures and you don’t have to worry when 100 or 1000 of visitors come in a few minutes to your blog. This should be the ideal situation. Unlimited means unlimited isn’t it?
From my own experience I have understood that this promise of unlimited bandwidth is just a farce. It has no value because if suppose just 500 visitors come at the same moment to your blog then most share the hosting will not support and you will see some kind of notice that your hosting is temporarily suspended or your blog is temporarily unavailable. This is the thing you should remember and what happens is that many times small websites or blobs when they hit the front page of social Bookmarking sites like Fark or Digg then their blog or website may become unavailable to many visitors.
So, when you become a professional blogger then try to know about different hosting solutions. These days, we are hearing a lot about cloud hosting and even I tasted this one but it is not that good either. Cloud hosting has its limitations too when thousands of people come at a short time to your website.
The only good thing to consider is dedicated server. However dedicated server can become very expensive like minimum expense can be $100 per month. So, when your blog or website is growing then try to access the situation in terms of your revenue. You should actively look out for increasing your revenue because you can be sure you have to spend more money for a dedicated server. As for me, I like Google’s blogger hosting for custom domain. This hosting gives almost unlimited support and if you want to get this kind of support from a hosting company then you have to spend at least $200 or $300 dollar per month.
In Google’s blogger hosting, I have noticed 50,000 page views in one hour and nothing happened to my blog. The only problem in this Google’s custom domain support is that you can not install WordPress and this is the only bad part.