Choosing the Right Web Host
Whether you have a personal or a business website, it needs to be hosted somewhere. Choosing the right web host for your website is very important as it could have a significant impact in your business in form of downtime, lost sales and loss of visitors(customers) to your website. There are a few things you should look out for to find the right web host. Here, you will find some tips to help you find the right web host for your website.
Customer Service and Support
Does the hosting company offer 24/7 technical support? Is their tech support by phone, email, or live chat? A good hosting company provides quality customer service and support. And usually they tech support is by phone or live chat, don’t just settle for support by email only.
To test the quality of customer service & support, just send them an email and see how long they take to respond.
Guaranteed Uptime
Another important thing to look out for is web hosts reliability or uptime.If their guaranteed uptime (time when the server is functional) isn’t above 99.9% you should probably look elsewhere.
Space and Bandwidth
You will need to determine if the web hosting company offers enough space and bandwidth for your website. If your website has a lot of images and videos , you will need more bandwidth and space.
Control Panel
Do they offer a Control Panel? What they Control Panel like? A Control Panel is a software that offer a web-based interface to help you manage various aspect of your web hosting account. A good web host provides an easy to use control panel.
Other Features
Some common features that atleast a good web host should provide are POP3 email access, email forwarding and FTP access.
Cost
And finally the last thing you should check is the cost. You should compare prices between the different web hosting companies. Just don’t settle for cheap web hosting, it can result to many unforeseen problems.
Make sure to follow these tips to find the right web host for your website.
ive just started my own hosting company its such hard work haha
I wasn’t aware of some of the info that you mentioned so I want to just say thank you.
That’s great.very helpful,thanks a lot
Cheers for sharing this post. I think selecting the best hosting company is important so that you won’t encounter any problems later on, maybe regarding disk space, bandwidth or maybe even uptime issues. That is why I always research a web host before choosing them.