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How to Choose A Web Host that Works!

By: James Collinsworth

These days, every web host around claims to be the best value and generally the cream of the crop.

But how do you TRUTHFULLY know `which is the greatest 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.

Firstly, you are most likely after shared hosting, which is entry and medium level hosting for small to medium sites. VPS Hosting and also dedicated web hosting are both more pricey but can handle the resource demands on more huge websites.

An Excellent Web Hosting Provider’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 25 times as hard. 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 skill requirements without this smart interface. Your Control Panel makes doing any of this, easy for absolutely anyone. Only go with web hosting companies offering “cPanel” (or possibly even, “DirectAdmin”). If they don’t offer these, don’t go forward with them.

An Excellent Web Hosting Provider’s Support:

Every person wants top web hosting support that will answer their questions quickly. But if you are paying $3 a month, you can’t expect support that’s going to be that wonderful. But some support should be available. Check if they have a phone number to call (most won’t – which isn’t often a bad thing), but if they have a “Live Support” chat button, that’s a Big plus, and a very valuable thing to have present to you in case you need to contact them fast.

An Excellent Web Hosting Provider’s Uptime and Reliability

If they are clearly not offering a 99.9% Uptime guarantee, don’t go forward with them. Downtime is aggravating and costly for anyone advertising their web sites. Viewers that come to your site when it’s down, will be very turned off to coming back. The better way to know of their reliability is to read reviews and other people’s opinions. However a quick way to test speed (but not quite dependable) is to see how fast the host’s own web page loads up for you, which can give you an clue of what kind of speed your site can expect.

An Excellent Web Hosting Provider’s Free Scripts

If the web host you want to run with 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 handy.

An Excellent Web Hosting Provider’s Per Month Pricing

Now if you are like the majority of people. You want good value, and don’t want to use up your budget. Web Hosting has become a “commodity” item with plenty of competition. You can even find web hosts offering hosting for a measly $2 a month. However, you can expect downtime and slowness and emotional distress with these cheaper-than-a-soft-drink web hosts. End result, not worth saving a couple of bucks with these cheaper than chips 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 host can actually afford to give you good support and put your account on a server that will always be up, and actually run quickly.

Believe it or not, 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 get you in the behind if you go with the cheapest is best mentality and that is in fact the rock-hard.

Article Source: http://www.articlesinsight.com

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

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