Tuesday, 22 October 2013

8 Things Your Web Host Must Offer

By Jack Thomas


If you're just setting up your first web site, decide for shared hosting. There are two basic variations of hosting on offer: shared, which is low-priced, but has less options, and dedicated, in which you get the works and lots of customizability, but you shell out for the privilege. Sound shared hosting plans can be had for just a couple dollars a month.

Web hosts offer a whole range of hosting space, from 1GB to unlimited. It's vital that you check how much space you'll be getting with your web host and that you have some idea how much traffic of space your website or sites generate in order to select the best plan. Remember if you start using more space than the host allows you then you'll have to start paying for it.

Web hosts offer a whole range of hosting space, from 1GB to unlimited. It's vital that you check how much space you'll be getting with your web host and that you have some idea how much traffic of space your website or sites generate in order to select the best plan. Remember if you start using more space than the host allows you then you'll have to start paying for it.

Go for a hosting service that allows you to swiftly and easily view your web facts and figures. You will want to know things such as how many people are going to your website and what pages they are viewing. You can even find out how long they remained on your site, and what search text they used to find you. These can be significant in the long run, so use a server who has these methods.

Do your research and look at review of the web host that you're considering, try and find genuine user reviews instead of affiliate spam and see what they have to say about the pros and cons of the service. Try to know as much as possible about the company as you can before you sign on the dotted line.

You must look for a hosting company that supplies a good FTP application. An FTP software enables you to upload the latest content to your site quickly and securely. If you have to go to your host's site and log in to add new content, you are losing a lot of time.

A good web host provider really should supply good support. If your site goes down out of the blue then every minute lost could be causing huge damage to your traffic, your fans and your revenue. It's important that your web host provider can analyse the issue promptly and more importantly, repair it. Check out the means of support that your internet host offers - is it an email ticketing system? An in-hour telephone support. A basic FAQ or is it a live-chat program? There's countless options of doing it and to my mind I've only found one web hosting service that does it correctly and that's InMotion Hosting. I've been with these guys for a year now and their customer support system is what will keep me a regular patron. Not only is it a live chat service but it's also 24/7 - absolutely crucial when you're furiously ripping your hair out. In fact the performance of InMotion's customer support was what impelled me to create my InMotion Hosting review video blog. I'd never been so delightfully surprised by the support of a digital entity as I had with InMotion.

Finally, a good test is to see whether the web hosting company has a decent website themselves. If it's shoddy and thrown together then it may be that they a leaching company that is trying to capitalise on quick, easy fixes and they don't plan on being around too long. A quality and robust website at least demonstrates they know the arena they're operating in.




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1 comment:

  1. Nice to read your post!!! Well the two and most important factors for $1 Web Hosting are the actual computer space that’s allotted for website files and also the speed at which a person can access those files when they are trying to access them using the Internet.

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