Choosing a web host for your blog can be stressful and intimidating. There are a lot of factors to take into consideration when you shop around and you want to make sure you carefully research and explore all of your options before settling on a host that is going to meet your needs. The worst thing you can do is to over pay for bells and whistles you don’t need or alternatively take the cheapest route and be faced with being locked into a plan that doesn’t have the features you do need.

Some things you will want to take into consideration are whether or not you expect a lot of traffic or will need a shopping cart or mailing list functionality. Personally, I recommend GoDaddy for buying inexpensive domains and basic web hosting because I’ve had nothing but a positive experience with their customer service. WordPress also works splendidly with it but make sure your plan supports MySql and PHP.

You can compare their plans side by side here and start drilling down to which one fits you best.