Tips for Choosing a Web Host

Tips for Choosing a Web Host

At  one  ’me  you  may  have  not  put  much  thought  who  you  chose  as  your  web   hosting  company.  In  recent  months  this  has  all  changed.  As  you  may  have  seen   companies  such  as  Hostgator  have  been  experiencing  tons  of  outages  and  down   ’me.  This  has  seriously  impacted  their  performance  and  reliability  issues.    It  also   leaves  the  question  about  just  who  you  should  use  when  it  comes  to  choosing  a   web  host.

There  are  several  things  that  you  will  want  to  consider  before  making  your  final   decision.  Items  that  are  important  include:

• The  type  of  website  you  are  planning  on  hosting:  business,  personal,   ecommerce

• How  many  websites  you  want  to  host

• Any  special  scripts  or  software  that  you  need  to  use

• Price  point

• Location  of  servers  –  this  can  have  an  impact  on  customer  downloads

• How  many  uploads  and  downloads  you  expect  to  do  per  month

• Amount  of  traffic  to  your  site

The  most  important  factors  include  knowing  how  many  websites  you  will  be   hosting,  your  business  type  and  any  special  requirements  for  scripts.  For  example   if  you  are  planning  on  just  hosting  a  personal  blog  you  will  need  less  bandwidth   than  someone  who  wants  to  run  an  ecommerce  site.

One  thing  to  always  remember  is  that  you  can  always  upgrade  your  plan  as  your   site  and  business  grow.  So  you  can  start  off  with  a  small  plan  that  allows  you  to   host  just  one  domain  and  then  upgrade  to  a  larger  plan  in  a  few  months.

But  if  you  know  that  you  are  planning  on  running  a  large  business  related  website,   it  doesn’t  hurt  to  have  more  than  enough  capacity  from  the  beginning.  This  will   reduce  any  issues  of  dealing  with  site  down  times,  if  you  suddenly  get  huge  spikes   in  traffic  from  running  a  sale.

Hosting  your  website  is  going  to  cost  money  and  if  you  have  a  ’ght  budget,  take   this  into  consideration.  After  comparing  several  plans  you  may  decide  to  rearrange   your  budget  and  make  funds  available  for  hosting.  After  all,  if  your  sites  are  down   you  won’t  be  making  any  money.  Web  hosting  is  also  a  business  expense  that  can   be  deducted  when  you  do  your  yearly  taxes.

Once  you  know  how  many  sites  you  want  to  host  and  their  purpose  you  can  start   comparing  some  of  the  top  hosting  companies.  Features  to  look  at  include   bandwidth,  number  of  domains,  guaranteed  up  times,  disk  space,  PHP,  I  click   installs  and  more.

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