Finding a quality hosting provider may often proof to be a daunting task. The majority of webmasters will often testify from experience when they inform others of the number of moves they had to undergo between hosting providers before finding the one that suited their needs.
Whether you are a business looking to establish a business-related website, a private individual looking to host a personal blog or a webmaster creating websites on behalf of clients, you need a reliable hosting service, one that would allow visitors to surf your website effortlessly, download files, view images and yet still ensuring your online presence 24-hours per day.
The web hosting market around the world is, to say the least, saturated.
There are so many hosting providers offering cheap hosting services, it may often be a difficult decision choosing one. It may also often be the wrong hosting provider you settle upon. In order to find the correct hosting provider, one that would suit your hosting requirements, we have compiled some recommendations you are free to look at.
The Hosting Company Always conduct research on the hosting company you are looking at.
Determine the age of the hosting company and always be sure to conduct search engine queries on the hosting company. Search engine results may often provide you with information as to how popular the service is and identify any complaints or compliments.
It is recommended that users make use of Google.com, and enter the hosting company’s name in the search field.
Then, take a look at all comments from the many websites that will be listed in the results.
Visiting a WHOIS website, such as whois.com and entering the hosting company’s domain name will reveal the correct age of the company.
Disk Space and Bandwidth A large number of webhosting companies often advertise hosting packages, which range in terms of bandwidth or disk space size.
What users should know is that bandwidth is of utmost importance when developing and launching a website. If you run out of bandwidth, your website will go offline. It is important that you look at providers offering large amounts of bandwidth.
Reliable companies, such as Hostgator or Godaddy may offer ‘unlimited bandwidth’, which is a good option to go with.
These companies do not really offer unlimited bandwidth, but do restrict website usage by other means, such as inode usage.
Still, these companies are large, established companies who are often capable of hosting very large websites without any bandwidth or disk space issues.
Be careful of companies offering minimal bandwidth, such as 1GB per month. Websites or blogs generating 100 to 300 unique visitors per day could easily utilize 300MB of bandwidth per day. This could lead to the closure of your website by the fourth day of the month.
When looking at disk space, users need to estimate the amount of space required. Again, keep in mind that if you establish a website which you intend to update on a daily basis with information and images, you will require large amounts of disk space. Always ensure that you ask from the hosting company information on the costs of additional bandwidth and disk space before signing up with them.
Programming Tools and Operating System Often, users may need hosting for a specific script and would therefore require a specific server, such as Linux or Windows, depending on your website’s programming language requirements. In the majority of instances users will find the Linux operating system sufficient and more cost-effective than other systems available.
Always ensure that you shop around at different hosts for the specific operating system. Another, very important factor is whether the hosting company involved makes use of the latest operating system software.
For security purposes, operating system software are released to enhance security on the server.
If the hosting company does not make use of the latest software or update them frequently, they have no interest in providing a quality hosting experience. Users should also determine whether a hosting provider offers access to a control panel.
These systems are useful for clients to manage their websites online from one central point and often provide useful tools.
One highly recommended system is cPanel, which is easy to use and offer an array of website tools, services and a number of additional add-ons such as DNS control, statistics and much more.
Support When you experience problems with your hosting, you need to be able to rely on your hosting provider to provide you with support any time of the day or night. Always ensure that you familiarize yourself with the support structures the company offers its clients.
Is the support available 24-hours per day?How do you get in touch with the support on offer? Email, Online Contact Form, Online Chat?Will you be assisted with immediate effect, or do you need to wait 1 to 2 days for support? Quality and reliable hosting providers will often allow users with access to an online chat facility, with is manned 24-hours per day, and offers immediate support.
Users will also have access to e-mail support or telephonic support.Uptime and Backups A quality hosting provider will, at least, make local backups of all hosting accounts once per week.
Be wary of hosting providers not making any backups of websites hosted on their servers. Be sure to ask the hosting provider as to whether they do make backups and the intervals between the backups.
Uptime refers to the number of times the hosting server goes down per day or month. Poor hosting providers could often leave websites offline for hours on end per day.
This is not the hosting provider you want to host your website with. Always conduct research on the uptime of a hosting provider.Start researching the uptime of well-known hosts from around the world.Pricing Always remember the saying: “You get what you pay for”. Don’t just settle for the cheapest hosting available.
Many smaller hosting companies will often provide cheap hosting, but cram their servers full of websites, which will slow down all websites hosted on the server. In many instances, this may even lead to websites going offline.
If you need to pay a dollar or two more for hosting your website with a better-rated host, do so.
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