Usually a blog website won’t need to much space, it’s mostly text. That’s one of the great things about a blog that helps you keep a reliable webhost without paying a lot of money. You probably know from experience that getting 5GB of bandwidth for $5 per month leads to oversold servers and downtime. Usually with so many clients a company that sells packages like this will also lack customer service qualities.

However, in order to make a blog popular you sometimes need to give away things, like Wordpress Themes and Plugins, and that will require a lot of space and bandwidth. Do you want to compromise reliability and support for a bigger package? Probably not. In this case, I would suggest checking out a hosting company like Gossimer, which offers a lot of space and bandwidth for a minimal price.

Something few people know is that with a little big of effor you can set up your account so that your downloads are on the large account but your site is still on your current host. All you need to do is contact your host and ask them to edit the IP address for a subdomain you set up. If you have a reseller account, you can do this on your own. In the DNS zone when you point the subdomain to another IP (the one Gossimer, gives you), it will point to that server and pull up the files on that server.

There are some great ways to make use of an account like this withouth jeopardizing your sites reliability. I’m not saying they oversell their accounts, but when you do the math it’s hard to believe otherwise. They offer limits on their features, like 1 MySQL database, so you may not wish to use them for a full featured site, but for purposes such as this they could be an extremely valuable, yet cost effective, service.