How To Choose a Web Hosting Provider

Choosing a web host should not be a difficult task, it all depends on what kind of site you're going to host. When I first commenced to build websites I was trusting to a greater extent on the value of the web hosting than its quality, therefore I wrote these 3 tips to aid you in your choice of a web hosting that won't upset you later on.

How to pick a web host - #1 - Support

It's good to know how they treat their clients, how much time do they typically take to write back to a question from you, if they have an ongoing chat service which can serve you, clear your doubts now, because we all understand how hard it is to have an issue and having to hold on until the next day in order to solve this! Exist many webhosting companies that also provides you with a Toll Free phone number which can be really handful when they don't respond your tickets and/or the chat is full and you're #10 on the line to speak to their support team.

Picking a web hosting - #2 - Trust

You don't have to choose a web host like you choose a shirt, they aren't all alike, what you have to do to is to choose a web hosting company which is honest and haven't had many complaints from old customers, it happens often when the internet sites stop to work because of a growth on its traffic, then your website go offline and you have to get in touch with your hosting company to order them fix this for you, but what if it is an company site and each second your site is offline you're missing customers? Look for a host with an uptime guarantee of a 99.9%. No hosting company can guarantee 100% uptime. Beware of anyone who does, they are lying.

How to choose a web host - #3 - Important Stuff

Exist three things that it's paramount when picking out a webhosting additional's:

Databases: Unlimited Databases, if they don't provide it, I just skip.

Bandwidth: If your webhosting provider offers a dull quantity of bandwidth, get ready to get in trouble, once you have an increase of your traffic and saying your bandwidth is only 1000 Mb, your website will be unavailable, and you won't know it, because they don't tell you when your website is offline due to Exceeded Bandwidth. And you'll have to spend more for additional bandwidth. So think about it before you choose a web hosting that is "cheap", in the end, you'll have to spend more anyways.

Disk Space: Unlimited also, is not like you're going to use all the space they offer, but you may need it, I'd rather choosing a web hosting with loads of disk space than selecting one that has little space.

Do they offer support to php?

If you don't know anything about creating a website will they teach you what you need to know to get the site found and achieve the goal you have for the site?

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