How to Choose An Excellent Web Host

These days, every web host under the sun claims to be the finest.

But how do you in FACT know `which is the most unsurpassed web host?

To begin with, you need to break it down to what you need, which is either three types of web hosting: Shared web hosting, Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting or dedicated web hosting.

Initially you are most likely after shared hosting, which is entry and medium level hosting for small to medium sites. VPS Hosting and Dedicated server hosting are both more pricey but can handle the resource demands on more large web site.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Control Panel:

This is the display that will let you tweak your site settings and even view your visitor statistics, such as which web site they came from, which country they are in and some other details. Without this, everything becomes 15 times more difficult. Creating an email account to use will suddenly take an hour of research instead of 20 easy seconds and will suddenly require almost programmer level skills without this smart interface. Your Control Panel makes doing any of this, easy for absolutely anyone. Only go with web hosts offering “cPanel” (or possibly even, “DirectAdmin”). If they don’t offer these, look elsewhere.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Support:

Anyone looking online for a host, wants decent web hosting support that will answer their questions fast. But if you are paying $3 per MONTH, you can’t expect support that’s going to be that wonderful. But some support should hopefully be available. Check if they have a contact number to call (most won’t – which isn’t that much of a bad thing), but if they have a “Live Support” chat button, that’s a Big plus, and a very helpful thing to have present to you in case you need to contact them quickly.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Uptime and Reliability

If they are simply not offering a 99.9% Uptime guarantee, look elsewhere. Downtime is frustrating and costly for anyone advertising their web sites. Visitors that come to your site when it’s down, will be very turned off to to returning. The only way to know of their reliability is to read reviews and other people’s opinions. However a speedy way to test speed (but not quite accurate) is to see how fast the host’s own web page loads up for you, which can give you an hint of what kind of speed your site will be load with.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Free Scripts

If the web host you want to choose is running cPanel, they will very often provide you with over 50+ free easily installable scripts through an addon known as “Fantastico”. This is quite useful, as it contains entire e-commerce shopping carts, CMS systems, forum software and heaps of extras, all installable with one mouse click. Not absolutely required, but certainly comes in useful.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Per Month Pricing

Now if you are like a good number of people. You want good value, and don’t want to use up a lot of money on web hosting. Web Hosting has become a “commodity” item with loads of competition. You can even find hosts offering hosting for a measly $3 a month. However, you can expect downtime and slowness and emotional distress with these cheaper-than-a-soft-drink hosts. End result, not worth saving a couple of bucks with these cheaper than lollies web hosts. Go for something around the $8-12 mark. Yes that’s over 5 times the amount of our $2 comparison. But this means the web host can actually afford to give you top support and put your account on a server that will always be up, and also run with speed.

In truth, you TRULY pay far more with a super-cheap web host because of downtime, unusual slowness, lost visitors and lost revenue, poor support, and your own frustration when you check and see your website is down and your host is out of reach to help – or don’t offer any. Website hosting is really something that will attack you in the behind if you go with the lowest-cost is best mentality and that is the rock-hard.

About the author: James Collinsworth has been online since 1996, and has time-tested many different web hosts and gives away Free Discount Hosting coupons for time-tested quality web hosts. Visit his website for more information: www.HostgatorReview.info

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