How To Find Top Web Hosting

If you are setting up a web site (whether it is a business web site or a personal blog) to which you want to attract visitors, you need top web hosting. 

Having a site that is slow to load and is frequently down is a sure way to frustrate and lose visitors. Google now also looks at this in ranking sites. By using one of the large reputable web hosting services you should avoid such problems.

Don't consider free hosting, there is always a disadvantage and you will not get the level of support that a new user will need. Shared hosting, which is the entry level service, is not expensive and there are many good providers but also some that are not so good.

Finding the best web hosting for you can be difficult because there are many review sites, which make different recommendations. You might search out user comments but inevitably will find some complaints about every host (to be expected given the number of customers they have). I have looked through a lot of such comments and would say that the majority of negative reviews in one way or another relate to support (or lack of it).

 

To find the best service for you, you should to be clear what you need:

• Linux or Microsoft Hosting:- If your site is being built for you then your developers will specify the hosting required. Which you need will depend on the tools you will use to produce and run your site. If you do not have any specific requirements it is best to go for Linux hosting.
• Type of hosting (shared,VPS,dedicated server):- Whilst it is normal to start with shared hosting, if you expect your site to become busy, it is worth considering what upgrade path a host offers. With shared hosting many users are hosted on the same server and share the resources of that server. It is possible to put too many users on one server but reputable web hosts will not do this.
  
• Reliability and Speed:- If your site suffers from slow loading and frequent downtime then you will lose visitors. Your host should guarantee uptime in excess of 99.9%. To get an idea about loading speed you can look for any user comments and also look at the host's own site.
  
• Customer Support:- As noted above support is of key importance. Quality hosts will offer 24/7 support preferably with a toll free phone number in addition to chat and email.
  
• Resources:- For shared hosting you usually see unlimited website hosting offering unlimited resources including unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth.  Clearly "unlimited" is not possible as a server has finite resources. The host must exercise some control otherwise one user could take all the server resources. Having said that "unlimited" packages do keep it simple and server resources will not be an issue for a new site in the short term and may never be.
  
• Price:- You should only consider price after your other requirements have been met. Although there are pricing differences they are not great enough to be more important than the points above. You normally pay a number of months in advance (the more months the cheaper it is per month) but some providers will allow you to actually pay monthly.
  
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