Low Cost Blog Hosting Solutions

With our Cheap Web Hosting Plans you can join the Blogosphere today. Check out our Advert Free Blog Hosting. Share your thoughts, and opinions on line with friends, family, and the rest of world! No annoying adverts and with your own exclusive domain name. Our hosting packages are compatable with the leading Blog engines, such as Wordpress Drupal, B2 Evolution, and many more.

Free UK Domain Name

We provide Free UK Domain Name for two years with every Soho, Enterprise, Web and Blog Hosting Accounts. Qualit Web hosting to suit most blog hosting, podcasting and audio blogging requirements with an easy to use Plesk Control Panel for simple software/script installation and email management.

Featured Blog Software - b2evolution

B2evolution- Online Blogging Made Easy. B2evolution is a very comprehensive blog engine you can find! Create a diary, post daily news about your products or business developments. Or just let everyone know how you feel about the world in general.

B2evolution is a comprehensive news and weblog tool featuring an integrated XHTML validator. It also supports recursive subcategories, cross posting and an integrated skinning system.

B2evolution has a simple interface for novice bloggers and an exceptional suite of features to please the experienced blogger. B2evolution can be pre-installed into your Weycrest Hosting Space with just one click from our online Plesk Control Panel.

With Weycrest Web Hosting you are not just limited to B2evolution. Wordpress, Moveable Type, Sblog and many others are all compatable with our web hosting plans. Weycrest Web Hosting meets Wordpress Minimum Requirements.

B2evolution features:

• Instant Blogging - No Blog rebuilding!
• Blog Skins - Instantly re-theme your entire Blog
• Spam Database - Avoid referrer or comment spam
• Localization Support - Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech , Dutch , Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmå Spanish, Swedish.
• Image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning
• Multiple Blogging - Display Each Blog on its own page or several blogs on one page.
• Multi user and authoring support
• Compliant with todays web standards - XHMTL checker included
• Advanced Categorization - Organise your blog by, topic or theme

In addition to our Blog Hosting Service all our hosting plans offer a huge amount of webspace to publish a very comprehensive site with space for audio blogs, and podcasts. Keep in touch when you are on the move with Webmail support which comes as standard on all web hosting plans. For those wanting more than image hosting, here is a comprehensive list of features below.

Blogging - Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Blog?

Blog means a "Web Log." A Blog is really on online journal. They are fairly similar to web forums except that a blog is an individual journal and a web forum is more of an interaction between many like minded individuals.

Is it hard to start a blog? Do you have to be a bit of a Geek to maintain a Blog?

Not at all it's all very simple. The software can be pre-installed by Weycrest and the popular blogging tools are very user friendly. Every day, there are lots of new bloggers. Indeed once your favourite blog is installed, the main task is to create content for your blog. Standard hosting usually requires some HTML skills in putting togethor a website. With blogging you are freed from that.

Can I use my Weycrest webspace in conjunction with Google's Blogger?

Absolutely. Signup for Google Blogger here. Choose "Advanced Blog Setup" and give Google your FTP username and password, Blog URL and FTP path, all of which are provided in your Weycrest hosting setup email. Blogger is a good introduction to the world of blogging but lacks some of the advanced features of the more popular blog tools. You may want to install Google Blogger in a sub directory or create a subdomain (ie: myblog.yourdomain.com) if you already have a website installed in your hosting space (or at least in a seperate directory).

How much does it cost money to start a blog?

It depends. There are several established sites that can set you up a free blog. These are blogeasy.com, weblogs.us, blogsource.com, blogstream.com, bloxter.net, blogsky.com, blogger.com, amongst others. The problem with free blog host space is that they have no contractual obligation to you and they can remove your blog at any time.

Can I install blog software in existing hosting space?

Of course if you already have hosting and a domain name, this might be the cheapest and most reliable way of starting a blog. Most blog scripts require PHP and often a MySQL database. Some blog software such as MT (moveable type) require additional perl modules, but these are already installed onto Weycrest servers

Can I make money out of my blog?

Yes. Though this isn't the main motivation of many personal bloggers it is possible to monetize your blog. This can be achieved by incorporating a google adsense campaign into your blog (easily done - just cut and paste the javascript code provided by Google into your site) or by writing about a service or product and including affilate text links in your writing. Embedded text links can produce the most response. With these methods its relatively easy to recoup your hosting costs.

How do I promote my blog? Whats all this "pinging" business?

There are a number of services you can ping when you update your blog though trackback posting is more productive. More frequent posting will increase traffic as the search engine spiders will crawl and index your blog more often.

Additional promotion and syndication methods include RSS feeds and submitting to Blog Directories and by exchanging links with other bloggers. Google's Blogger only produces and atom feed, but this can be processed at feedburner.com (which is a free service) to produce a valid RSS 2.0 feed. This is also the RSS standard for podcasting. Your RSS feed can then be validated at feedvalidator.org.

What is Podcasting?

Podcasting is a combination of the terms "ipod" and "broadcasting." Though infact you can create and listen to a podcast without the need for an ipod device. Podcasts can be retrieved using a standard web browser or podcast client software such as Podcast Amp. Listen to podcasts using standard media or audio software (Real Player, Windows Media Player, or Winamp) or transfer them to an mp3 player.

Creating a podcast is easy. It requires a PC or laptop with a microphone. Firstly record and edit your podcast with audio editor and recorder software. Audacity is free software and support's Windows, Linux and Mac OSX operating systems and can be found at http://audacity.sourceforge.net. Upload your podcast to your Weycrest blogspace and distribute it via your blogger software's RSS feed. Also submit your audio blog site to the various Podcast Directories.