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How to Decide on The Best Web Host for You

By: James Collinsworth

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

But how do you TRULY know `which is the best web host?

Initially you need to break it down to what you need, which is either 3 types of web hosting: Shared, VPS, 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 also Dedicated Hosting are both more pricey but can handle the resource demands on more huge websites.

An Excellent Web Host’s Control Panel:

This is the interface 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 harder. Creating an email account to use will suddenly take an hour of research instead of 20 easy seconds and will suddenly involve almost programmer level skills without this easy 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, move on.

An Excellent Web Host’s Support:

Anyone looking online for a host, wants decent web hosting support that will answer their questions quickly. But if you are paying $3 per month, you can’t expect support that’s going to be that of high quality. But some support should be available. Check if they have a number to call (most won’t – which isn’t necessary a bad thing), but if they have a “Live Support” chat button, that’s a great plus, and a very nifty thing to have accessible to you in case you need to contact them with speed due to any problems.

An Excellent Web Host’s Uptime and Reliability

If they are clearly not offering a 99.9% Uptime guarantee, move on. Downtime is agitating and costly for anyone advertising their web sites. Visitors that come to your site when it’s down, will be very turned off to coming back. The better way to learn of of their reliability is to read reviews and other people’s opinions. However a fast way to test speed (but not quite reliable) 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 can expect.

An Excellent Web Host’s Free Scripts

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

An Excellent Web Host’s Per Month Pricing

Now if you are like nearly all 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 hosts offering hosting for a measly $2 a month. However, you can expect downtime and slowness and emotional distress with these confusingly cheap hosts. End result, not worth the hassle of 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 fee 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 actually run quickly.

In truth, you WILL 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. Web hosting is really something that will get you in the behind if you go with the spend-nothing is best mentality and that’s the solid truth.

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

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

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