9 Tips To Select a Web Hosting Company

March 02, 2017 | Page views: 2365

When you want your website to flourish, first thing you want is professional web hosting company. This thing is base to your brand or website. Your website is key to your success, so if there is any downtime you can lose your business. So in this manner, finding a good web host is very important for your business.

We are giving you nine tips which will help you in finding good web host.

1. KNOW YOUR WEB HOSTING NEEDS:

• What do you want to build?
• Do you want to include anything common in it (e.g. word press blogs).
• Are you going to need windows application?
• Is there any requirement for a special version of software?
• Do you know how big or small traffic volume can go?

2. SERVER RELIABILITY/ UPTIME SCORES:

• Availability should be 24/7.
• If up-time speed is more than 99% its good but any thing below is not acceptable.

3. SERVER UP-GRADATION?

• If server accepts up-gradation it will help you in processing power, your memory capacity, disk storage and also provide you better security features.

4. MULTIPLE DOMAIN OPTION:

• Almost 80% of the voters have more than 5 domains and 20% of the voters have more than 50. So this means you are going to need some extra hosting space. So you should look for an account which allows you to add multiple domains.

5. SIGN UP & RENEWAL COST:

• Hosting deals, shared hosting specially, sell cheap on sign up but charge a lot on renewal. So you have to keep that in mid.

6. ECOMMERCE FEATURES:

You need to pick web host which provide sufficient ecommerce feature support

• Are you running an ecommerce website?
• Do you need any shopping cart software?
• Are you going to process business transactions?
• Do you need any special technical support?

7. USER Friendly:

Another very important thing is user friendly & function hosting control panel.

8. SUPPORT:

24/7 customer support is very important on

• Call
• Mail
• Chat

9. BACKUP:

Some question you need to ask from your web host

• What are your backup plans?
• Can your backup be restored by yourself?
• Can we backup data using control panel?
• Can you create auto backup?