I was recently contacted by a reader who was disappointed because they had chosen the same webhost as I did for their blog, assuming that I chose my host because they’re great for blogging and finding themselves bummed when they didn’t get the same performance as my blog has. I chose my webhost (Prohosters) years ago for reasons unrelated to blogging (and now am wishing they had cPanel and Fantastico…) and have a dedicated server which costs me $300 a month (I am self-employed, after all). But this reader chose one of their $25 a month shared solutions and found himself disappointed by the speed (or lack thereof) in which his WordPress powered site loaded. So he asked me, and now I’m passing the question on to you, my faithful readers:

What is the best webhosting company for WordPress bloggers?

I would personally love to hear all of your experiences, positive and negative, so please comment away!!

c|net posted an article yesterday about how Google indavertantly revealed internal projections. Some of this leaked information should be of great importance (and very disturbing) for professional bloggers:

Google said that “AdSense margins will be squeezed in 2006 and beyond.”

It’s not like Google isn’t already making a ton of money from AdSense - the leak also said that:

Google expected ad revenue to grow from “$6 billion this year to $9.5 billion next year.”

So why does Google need to reduce publisher’s earnings even more?? As it is, earnings paid on AdSense clicks are marginal compared to what the advertisers are paying for those clicks (and what’s going in Google’s pockets).

Looks like bloggers need to take a better look at the Yahoo! Publisher Network (which is still in Beta) because Google is apparently planning on screwing AdSense publishers in the upcoming future.