Times have changed, Taylor. It's not worth doing it unless you get 50,000 readers per day*

Anyway, I've cheered up now, because I've managed to stop it redirecting to a URL that wasn't properly configured and was, to use the technical terminology, buggering it right up.

*Possible slight exaggeration

It was me who nominated EIM's blog, but not through any nepotistic motives, I just thought it was the best blog piece I'd read that week.

I didn't nominate Nishlord, but it was through his boasting of his (deserved) victories on Todger Talk did alert me to the post of the week page.

Huzzah for you!

Though, it has to be said, I'm all for nepotism.

twohundredpercent - can i ask who you went with for the hosting/domain/wordpress package?

I think i want something along those lines for something i need to put together, there are a few about that i can see for a few quid a month and i imagine they are mostly much the same but i'd be happier going with one that i know someone else has had a good experience with

About effing time, 200.

Those 404 messages were getting bloody tiresome.

Mafu: I got it from here:
http://www.hosting-netexplorers.co.uk/

It's about £7 per month, but it came with a free domain name, and it comes with everything already loaded on it for Wordpress, cutting out 90% of the pain in the arse of setting it up. It gets paid monthly by Payplan. I am a bit of an idiot when it comes to this sort of thing, but they have got quite a good support thing which works like an IM window - I've availed myself of it a couple of times and they answered my cack-handed questions both times. The only problem that I had was with them configuring the domain name, but that was partly my fault. Wordpress itself is an absolute dream to use - couldn't be easier.

thanks, will bear them in mind

200% -- are you paying more because you get a fair bit of traffic?

I'm using this lot: http://www.maiahost.com/

Am using a US service, with the favourable exchange rate and all; they charge $3.95/month, including domain name. Like 200% said, a lot of hosts have a thing in the control panel called Fantastico, which installs Wordpress for you.

My website gets about 40-50 visits a day, which isn't heavy traffic.

Whatever you choose, just make sure it's a Linux or Apache server. (I'm pretty sure the Wordpress software doesn't work on Microsoft servers.)

Oh, and off the top of my head, you also need two mySQL databases as part of the deal.

Yeah, I didn't go for the most basic one, just in case. It's not inconceivable for an incoming link from somewhere like Deadspin or wherever to do a fortnight's worth of traffic in a couple of hours, and I'd rather pay more and not have to worry about it. Ultimately, I can afford it (and I couldn't be arsed to look around too hard for it).

I thought this might be a good place to poin out I know have a blog, here.

It's only the Chelsea thing I wrote at the minute, but it's a start. Check it out you pussyclarts.

Aye, fair enough. I don't think I really need worry about big traffic spikes for my website (sob!).

[Edit: To 200%]

They only happen once in a blue moon, but it's very difficult to predict when they will be.

This makes me wish I could find my old webstats page. I used to watch it pretty much hourly

The WP Super Cache plug-in might be useful to you. It converts your pages to HTML, which is less heavy on bandwidth.