Blinky
Owner
Whether you are a webmaster since years or you are a beginner in earning your money online, there is no doubt that you will need to use hosting a lot. This may be the choice you should consider every few months. Some services die, some services change. In this article we are going to describe a few factors you should consider when choosing a great hosting service. If you follow them , you will have no reason to change the home of your website, because of bad feelings.
1. “PRICE”. Well don’t hide it; the price is the aspect you are looking at the first glance. And it is for a reason. There are hosting companies that will charge you almost nothing for their packages, while other “players” will try to get you giving really a lot of cash out of your pocket. The truth is that none of them is the best. Aim to find a company in the middle class. Cheap companies put a lot of clients on the same server and the performance of your website will suffer one day. This is known as over selling. The highest prices don’t mean the best service. They mean just that the owners sell you something that doesn’t cost that much money.
2. “SUPPORT”. If you are a beginner in web mastering, this is the most important factor. Do they provide a phone number you can call in when there are problems with your website? Try to find the work hours of the phone support. There are companies that are offering toll free and 24/7 support. May be, you will need to make a test call. Try to see if the support persons are helpful and communicative. Do they look competent? Look also for other channels of support. Real-time chat and e-mail support are the best when you will discuss highly technological issues.
3. “SCALABILITY”. This is a thing you CANNOT skip when you choose the best hosting for your needs. Especially if you don’t want to jump from a hosting company to another company, every few months. Yes, your site now needs almost no resources; you will be okay with the smallest packages. But think about your future. Your site will need more disk space, more traffic, and more hardware power and so on. Does the companyhave a lot of hosting packages? If yes, you can always go to a bigger one. Some companies offer VPS and Dedicated servers. This will come handy too. VPS servers are the next step. The whole server is divided to a smaller amount of VPS packages. In every package you have guaranteed quantity of RAM, and a portion of the CPU. When you get a dedicated server, you will have control of the whole machine.
4. Customer Opinions, Satisfactory Reviews and Good Reputation. This is the most liberal factor out there, because you have to invest some of your time and creativity in succeeding. Make a search in Google or in the webmaster forums. Look for positive reviews made by customers that use the service now or that are former users of it. Are they satisfied with the uptime of the servers and are they okay with the support of the company. Talk to them and ask for the times needed for the support to respond a support ticket. Did they have any problems with their hosting plan? And so on and so on…try get as much information as possible.
1. “PRICE”. Well don’t hide it; the price is the aspect you are looking at the first glance. And it is for a reason. There are hosting companies that will charge you almost nothing for their packages, while other “players” will try to get you giving really a lot of cash out of your pocket. The truth is that none of them is the best. Aim to find a company in the middle class. Cheap companies put a lot of clients on the same server and the performance of your website will suffer one day. This is known as over selling. The highest prices don’t mean the best service. They mean just that the owners sell you something that doesn’t cost that much money.
2. “SUPPORT”. If you are a beginner in web mastering, this is the most important factor. Do they provide a phone number you can call in when there are problems with your website? Try to find the work hours of the phone support. There are companies that are offering toll free and 24/7 support. May be, you will need to make a test call. Try to see if the support persons are helpful and communicative. Do they look competent? Look also for other channels of support. Real-time chat and e-mail support are the best when you will discuss highly technological issues.
3. “SCALABILITY”. This is a thing you CANNOT skip when you choose the best hosting for your needs. Especially if you don’t want to jump from a hosting company to another company, every few months. Yes, your site now needs almost no resources; you will be okay with the smallest packages. But think about your future. Your site will need more disk space, more traffic, and more hardware power and so on. Does the companyhave a lot of hosting packages? If yes, you can always go to a bigger one. Some companies offer VPS and Dedicated servers. This will come handy too. VPS servers are the next step. The whole server is divided to a smaller amount of VPS packages. In every package you have guaranteed quantity of RAM, and a portion of the CPU. When you get a dedicated server, you will have control of the whole machine.
4. Customer Opinions, Satisfactory Reviews and Good Reputation. This is the most liberal factor out there, because you have to invest some of your time and creativity in succeeding. Make a search in Google or in the webmaster forums. Look for positive reviews made by customers that use the service now or that are former users of it. Are they satisfied with the uptime of the servers and are they okay with the support of the company. Talk to them and ask for the times needed for the support to respond a support ticket. Did they have any problems with their hosting plan? And so on and so on…try get as much information as possible.
All the best to all of you. 
