How to choose the best hosting company
Since, there are thousands of web hosting companies, it’s sometimes confusing to choose who should we go for. For someone whose new to all this web hosting, buying a domain etc always take a second opinion but that’s where the confusion comes in. Someone will say, go for this one, it’s the best hosting company ever, other friend might not agree because of various reasons.
To keep yourself out of all that hassle, just look for these variables / factors which does determine which one is one of the best hosting companies out of them all. Lets discuss these!
1- Cost
Cost is one of the major factors that most of the people are concerned with, when choosing a hosting company. They might not be a big company who wants to host a lot of network sites. Budget is always there! So look for deals.. Almost every hosting company is giving out fantastic packages.. Browse, compare, note down or bookmark the ones that matches your criteria and then take step 2.
2- Reliability & Server up time
Alright, you got off with the pricing and everything. Now it’s time to see how good these web hosting company’s servers are! You’ll see the flashy buttons on all of these hosting company’s websites, claiming, 99.9% uptime and what not but how sure are you? If you have the reseller’s account for a specific web hosting company. You can always check their server’s downtime with a help of these tools.
- SitePoint - (BEST - Free Monitoring Service)
- Service Uptime - (Free Monitoring Service)
- HyperSpin
- Alertra
- IpPatrol Server Monitoring
3- Customer service:
In my opinion, customer service is one of the MOST important factor in this web hosting business specially. If these web hosting companies have Live Chat services, good phone support and email support and their operators actually listen to what your problems are then it’s very likely for you to go for them! Frustration can cause a lot of mental distress and that hosting company might end up losing your account just because they weren’t given the priority or good customer service regarding their (customer’s) concern.
I would actually recommend this customer service company called “Live Admins” - I’ve been to a popular hosting company and they had live chat services, provided by them. And believe me, I was entertained properly and was given answers to all my questions without any hassle.
4- Additional Services Offered:
Are these hosting companies offering any additional services? Always check! Most of them do like blog setups, forum setups etc etc. It’s always a plus point to have anything that you can get your hand on when choosing your hosting.
In my opinion, these are the main factors that helps you choose the web hosting company that you’ll be happy with in the future! but i’d love to hear from what anyone else has to say.
Cheers
Nice post
High speed and high quality :DD
I think bluehost is nice but it is costly
so i chose avivatech.com