Web
Hosting:
Wordpress
Mage and the Plugins can be installed on almost any webhost.
However if you want to install CPmage, which automates the
site creation process, we will require a host with cPanel Standard x2
or x3 Themes. There are many inexpensive shared hosts.
These are some of our "Recommended providers" that
we know everything will work properly out of the gates. We
recommend you try them
Shared
Hosts
MAGE OPTIMIZED HOSTING. Includes FREE install - RECOMMENDED - CoolHandle
Pronet Hosting - Inexpensive Shared Hosting
Hostgator - Inexpensive Shared Hosting that ALWAYS works

Please note that as of
right now CPMAGE is incompatible with Bluehost, Hostmonster and GVO/Kiosk
Reseller Hosting
HostGator - Their reseller accounts seem to work great with the Mage. Please make sure you understand your way around a cPanel and are one step above the newbie level before you get a reseller account or you will get confused
Dedicated Servers
Liquid
Web.
Hands down the best we have found. We are happy
customers of them for years and their support is instant and top notch. These servers are Tuned and optimized for MAGE performance
Research and other Keyword
Tools.
While we give you a pretty robust solution with the full
Mage Package, here are a few other resources that we find useful.
Terapeak:
Terapeak is eBays own inhouse research service in which you
can gain insight into item selling points and such.
You can be clever and use this to select hot niches for your
Mage sites.
Trellian - Keyword Discovery -
We sometime use
this for the shopping search function as it shows what people are
actually searching for on eBay, so you can replicate it in your Mage
Sites
Keyword Elite 2.0
- Free 14 Day Trial and also gets you into KE University and there are some videos Greg did of cross Integration between the Mage and KE2.0
.
Other Free Resources
Statcounter.
We did not include it in default Mage installs,
because it sometimes requires a bit of manual configuration.
However we found it is a very nice way to track all of the visitors
across all sites. Best of All, its free.
Textpad
- Better than Windows notepad. (hint it
wont corrupt your files)
Firefox
Browser
- If you some reason you still use Internet Explorer, then
just trust us on this one and start using Firefox. Much
faster and more importantly, much more secure.