Hosting 101: My Best Content on Web Hosting (Advice and Reviews) https://www.ryrob.com/hosting/ Valuable tools and strategies to starting a blog and growing a side business while working a full-time job. Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:40:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.ryrob.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-ryrob-favicon-32x32.png Hosting 101: My Best Content on Web Hosting (Advice and Reviews) https://www.ryrob.com/hosting/ 32 32 11 Best Free Blogging Sites to Build (and Grow) Your Blog for Free in 2025: Tested, Compared and Reviewed https://www.ryrob.com/free-blogging-sites/ https://www.ryrob.com/free-blogging-sites/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:15:57 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=8798 Because building a blog has gotten so much easier in recent years, here are my picks for the ten best free blogging sites you should use to create your first site and lay the foundation for what’s to come in your blogging journey. Blogging has a long and rich history. Since 1993, people have been

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]]> https://www.ryrob.com/free-blogging-sites/feed/ 418 17 Best Web Hosting Plans for Bloggers in 2025 (Affordable Hosting Plans Compared) https://www.ryrob.com/best-web-hosting-plans/ https://www.ryrob.com/best-web-hosting-plans/#comments Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:21:00 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=9046 Over the past 10 years of running my blog here (and reaching 500,000+ monthly readers), I’ve learned the importance of using only the best web hosting plans to power my blog and keep this site running—to bring in more readers and generate more side income. The real challenge when trying to find the best hosting

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]]> https://www.ryrob.com/best-web-hosting-plans/feed/ 102 8 Best Managed WordPress Hosting Plans in 2025 (What is Managed Hosting and Who Needs it?) https://www.ryrob.com/managed-wordpress-hosting-plans/ https://www.ryrob.com/managed-wordpress-hosting-plans/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:39:57 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=12087 In this guide, we’ll also discuss how to decide on the right kind of hosting for your blog—for instance, choosing between shared hosting and managed WordPress hosting. That being said, the latter is our main topic of discussion today, so let’s get to discussing managed WordPress hosting. Managed hosting won’t be best for most budgets

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]]> https://www.ryrob.com/managed-wordpress-hosting-plans/feed/ 23 How Much Does Web Hosting Cost? 5 Web Hosting Costs (and Factors) Compared in 2025 https://www.ryrob.com/how-much-does-web-hosting-cost/ https://www.ryrob.com/how-much-does-web-hosting-cost/#comments Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:43:22 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=11553 Launching a blog is impossible without hosting. But when you’re new to blogging, it can be difficult to figure out how much you should budget for web hosting. You don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars a year on hosting that’s way more powerful than your blog needs. On the other hand, you don’t want

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]]> https://www.ryrob.com/how-much-does-web-hosting-cost/feed/ 16 10 Best Monthly Web Hosting Plans (Cheap Month-to-Month Payments) for Bloggers in 2025 https://www.ryrob.com/monthly-billed-web-hosting/ https://www.ryrob.com/monthly-billed-web-hosting/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:42:39 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=7526 So why month-to-month hosting plans? Is monthly web hosting all it’s cracked up to be? Well, many of the leading blog hosting services (that bloggers tend to promote) offer only the option to pay your full plan duration up front… racking up a bill that’s often well over $100 and locking you into a web

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]]> https://www.ryrob.com/monthly-billed-web-hosting/feed/ 44 How Much Does it Cost to Start a Blog in 2024? Blog Costs Guide (and Free Budget Template) https://www.ryrob.com/how-much-cost-blog-budget/ https://www.ryrob.com/how-much-cost-blog-budget/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:08:03 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=9316 Without wasting any time—this is my guide answering, how much does it cost to start a blog? So, let’s break down the cost to run a blog in 2024. How much does it cost to start a blog? Depending upon your goals and the type of blog you want to start, your blog costs will be

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]]> https://www.ryrob.com/how-much-cost-blog-budget/feed/ 87 How to Install WordPress on a Self-Hosted Website in 2024: Everything You Need to Know https://www.ryrob.com/how-to-install-wordpress/ https://www.ryrob.com/how-to-install-wordpress/#comments Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:39:00 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=15742 When you’re new to blogging or creating a website, it often seems like there are many different technical pieces to get up to speed with. Aside from learning how to use WordPress in the first place, the next big worry you may have is how to install WordPress on your self-hosted website. Getting WordPress installed

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]]> https://www.ryrob.com/what-is-self-hosted-blog/feed/ 8 23 Best Podcast Hosting Platforms in 2024 (Free and Cheap) to Host Your Podcast https://www.ryrob.com/best-podcast-hosting/ https://www.ryrob.com/best-podcast-hosting/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:37:39 +0000 https://www.ryrob.com/?p=12345 Podcasting (and thus the need for podcast hosting) has been accelerating in popularity over the last few years. That’s why many content creators have harnessed the power of starting podcasts to grow their audiences, diversify their content distribution channels and generate more revenue. If you’re looking for a podcast hosting platform to help get your

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