subject: 3 Solid Tips to Choosing a Good Web Host [print this page] 3 Solid Tips to Choosing a Good Web Host 3 Solid Tips to Choosing a Good Web Host
Your web hosting company is the foundation of your web business no matter how great your blog is or how solid your marketing plan is. Choosing a good web host is very critical to your success and there are some things to consider before choosing a web host. Before I continue, I will like to relate this experience of mine with you:
I was helping someone build and market a particular niche site of his, I kept on writing series of articles everyday while making sure everything is in good order. With time, results started coming in and this site started climbing the top in the search engines, we began to see a significant impact only for us to try to work on the site the next day and see it is not life. What happened? It was a web hosting problem, we waited for 10 hrs but it is still the same thing, this problem ended up lasting for 3 days and before we know it we have been delisted from the search engines - We had to start all over.
If I may ask, what if your income, your family and your life depended on your online business? Will you allow your host to disappoint you? Below are some tips on choosing a great web host.
1. Focus on Customer Service
A major and very important element when trying to choose a web host is the customer support of your host. Do they take ages to answer customer queries or are they there in an instant? Many new internet marketers make the mistake of choosing a webhost based on some offers that are to good to be true.
2. Focus on The Offerings
Even though it has been argued several times that there is no such thing as unlimited hosting or unlimited diskspace it is still better to go with hosts that claim to offer unlimited hosting than with hosts who offer a very small bandwidth. There are hosts who offer as low as 50mb diskspace and 100gb bandwidth yet they charge the same as others who offer better. Don't choose a web host because you think it will suit your needs, research effectively before you take action.
3. Do Your Research
Another very important thing to do before choosing a web host is to do your research properly, don't just base your decision on what you see on the homepage of a hosting website. For example, there are web hosts who look promising but are fake. A great way to effectively research a hosting company before deciding to go with it or not is by searching using keywords like "hosting name + review", "hosting name + scam" etc.
