If you are a newbie, or you don’t want to spend more than 10 seconds on installing Wordpress on your web host, than you need a “Wordpress friendly” hosting package. 
What does it mean? You need a web host that has Fantastico installed on it’s servers. What is Fantastico? It’s an online application installer, and with the help of this script library it takes only 10 seconds to install Wordpress on your web host. Fantastico is fantastic, and it’s useful for everybody -not just for bloggers-, that’s why I created a list of the biggest hosting companies that useFantastico on their servers. Here is the list:
Hostgator
If you use the coupon code wordpress than the cost of the first month’s hosting is only 1 cent. Although I haven’t tried Hostgator’s hosting service, my friends love the “Baby” package which costs $7.95/month. If I wasn’t satisfied with Hostican’s service, I’d try this offer.
Hostican
This blog is hosted at Hostican, and I like their service. You can read the Hostican shared hosting review here.
Lunarpages
I’ve read positive reviews about their hosting service, but I haven’t tried it yet.
I haven’t reviewed or tried the services of the following companies, the only reason I included them in the list is that they have Fantastico installed on their servers.
ImHosted
Omnis
Hostmonster
IX Web Hosting
BlueHost
Powweb
AN Hosting
What do you think about Fantastico? Do you use it frequently?
March 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Hello. I’ve been with a number of hosts already, and I can say that hostican is not one that I would recommend. I think they should change their name to hosticannot!
March 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Personally I had positive experiences with Hostican. Jason (you know, the author of theuniversitykid.com) is also a satisfied user of Hostican.
Anyway, why don’t you recommend it?
March 29th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Hi Jeremy. You can read all about why here. At first I was fairly impressed with hostican, but when problems arose, that’s when I found out I was gravely mistaken.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
This would be me ! “If you are a newbie, or you don’t want to spend more than 10 seconds on installing Wordpress. . . .” Thanks for these services, it helps me narrow down my search!
July 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I haven’t tried any of these, but I like hearing that Hostgator offers “baby packages”. I think I’ll try that and see how it works out. Thanks, that just made that decision really easy for me.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I’ve tried a few. I currently deal with Media Temple, HostMonster (Bluehost), and 1and1. I have had the most experience with 1and1 and their control panel is easy to get around in. You get a lot for your buck too. It has the one click install just like all the other for WordPress.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I have to say I’m really impressed with your posts and blog overall. I stumbled on your site accidentally but am now happy I did. I’ll be stopping in to read more often now. Thanks again !
Thanks,
Lou