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A blog is a very effective communication tool. Many individuals and companies are using their blogs to reach out to consumers. Traditionally, blogs meant to be personal online dairies. But today, blogs are open to the public and used to gain new readers and customers. It would be foolish not to jump on the train, because a blog is easy to install and contrary to popular belief, it is easy to maintain, too. But first you must find a host for your blog. There are three types of hosting that you can consider. 1) Free blog hosting. These are free blog hosting accounts you create a website. The site offers a free blog, which means you do not have to pay a penny for having a blog created. Unfortunately, there are some drawbacks to this type of web hosting packages. For example, allows most of these services do not want you to have your own domain name. This means that your blog is hosted as a subfolder, or as a subdomain on the site. It does not help if you are looking to brand your blog. In addition, there is a whole bunch of rules and strategies that you must follow. Some free hosts, you can not receive advertisements, and some even restrict your use. 2) Windows hosting. Before you create a blog, you must determine that the blog platform you use. There are some out there on the Internet that is available for free because they are open source. The most popular among the stack is WordPress. WordPress runs on PHP. So you must make sure that your server supports PHP software to run properly. It used to be that a Windows server can not run PHP scripts without having the change now. You can now install a WordPress blog successfully on a Windows computer. But since Windows was unable to support PHP in the first place, there may be some bugs. For example, you can not use Mod Rewrite to create search engine friendly URLs on your blog is on a Windows computer. Furthermore, users complained that a WordPress blog tend to run slower on a Windows server. 3) Linux, cPanel hosting. For WordPress to run properly, this is the most appropriate type of hosting you should look for. CPanel is a admin control panel that you can use to install your blog. You do not pay extra for the use of the control panel. It should be provided with your hosting company. Just login with the username and password and you will have access to cPanel. Once inside, look for an icon labeled “Fantastico”. This little feature allows you to install a WordPress blog with a few simple clicks. Just select your admin username and password, then click install, and it’s done! You’ll get access to the WordPress admin area to configure and customize your blog. Make sure you enable Permalinks so that your blog is search engine friendly URLs.