Much of my time lately, in terms of blogging on Nielsen Digital, is spent planning and writing the PHP Tutorial. As the material pertains to broader readership, I’ll duplicate those aspects in the main blog as I have with this bit on Web Hosts.

The best web hosting out there is Slicehost. It does require a higher level of set up and aptitude to get going; however, Paul over at Useful Jaja (who now works for Slicehost in some capacity) has a tremendous volume of tutorials that will walk you through everything you need to do in order to get your server up and running. If you want convenience over performance, MediaTemple’s GridServer is an affordable alternative, but it is shared hosting. The advantage to shared hosting is that PHP/MYSQL are likely ready to go when you sign up. The disadvantage is that you share all the resources on the web server with countless numbers of other clients.