Congratulation you have found your Domain Name , now you will need a place to host your website. There are tonnes of company out there offering Web Hosting Services . It might take some time to do the Comparison.
In this Article, i will show you how i did my research, and what to take note when signing up a Hosting Package
Purchase A Hosting Package essential information to take note .
- Monthly Cost (Hosting Fee)
- Your Web Building Skill level
- Your Web site Nature ? ( E-commerce or Content site)
- MySQL Database?
- Domain Name Transfer ?
- Migrate your site to other hosting company in Future ?
- Integration to SSL socket?
- Recurring Hosting Fee after the Hosting Package Lapse?
Share Hosting
What is a share hosting?
A single Server hosting multiple website, from different user utilising the same server .Thus Shared hosting is fairly cheap as you will only pay a fraction of the cost to maintain the Server.
C-panel
What is C-panel ?
C- panel is a control panel , that will allow you to manage and create File, create emails, setup Database MySQL and a lot more.
Guarantee of 99% Up time From Web Hosting Company
Look for the word ” Guarantee 99% Up time ” at the Web Host package. why ?
- You will miss out a lot of traffic if your site experience significant down time.
- It will hurt your business Profit, if your site is an e-commerce site
- Google penalised unreliable web hosting, this will hurt your website’s google ranking
Server Back-up Feature
Do the Web Hosting company perform regular back up on their server ? Hosting company that do so will guarantee the smoothness of your Web business , in -case there are catastrophic event like natural disaster , fire , server break down etc ,that will cause you loose all your data.
Unlimited Features
Starting a business online eventually , it will grow in future .So a good Web Hosting should provide unlimited storage , unlimited page, unlimited traffic and finally unlimited support.
Secure Server
Do the Web Hosting Company provide Secure Server , this is very important ,if you are doing an online business such as E-commerce. User will feel unsafe to provide you sensitive details , if your website server is not secured. You can check the web hosting company by engaging live chat services , calling them ,or check out their package details.
Comparing All Features provided by Web Hosting Company
There are a lot of sites on google, which provide comparison , feature offer by different web hosting company such as, price , hosting package feature,Security, Tool availability at C-Panel , Tech Support.
I have found this site quite informative .Top Ten Web Hosting Site
Speed
According to google research , If your page load more than 3 second on a mobile device, people will back off your side and move somewhere else.
So you will need to check the Web hosting Company Speed before signing up. A slow speed will cause you loose a lot of business.
There are some good web hosting speed test video i found in Youtube
you can check it out the link below:
Or you can check out pingdom.com
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