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Learn Before You Choose a Web Hosting Service

People might do well in the matter of contents and technology of the websites, but many of them fail in choosing the right web hosting to accommodate all the needs of their websites. Of course we don’t want to fail in the same thing. Therefore we must be proactive in ensuring the reliability of web hosting service we are going to choose. We realize that we do not have a strong budget like other large scale companies. But, it does not mean we cannot get the best web hosting service that can meet all our requirements.

There are many providers available in the market that offer web hosting services with the price varying according to the features provided. So before we choose a web hosting, make sure we know what we really need.

Speed and Up-time Is Everything
Our website is our company, and it should open 24 hours a day to serve anyone. A lot of downtime period and slow access speed can give bad impression to customers and visitors, therefore the service up-time, bandwidth management and connection speed should be our number one priority in choosing web hosting company. Make sure they guarantee these as long as possible (at least 30 days guarantee), or leave them if they don’t. A good webhosting company should also give clear information about the specification of their servers, backbone connections, network lines, etc.

Based On the Budget, What Plans We Can Get
In general, there are 4 kinds of hosting plans, they are budgeted hosting, shared business hosting, dedicated server hosting and VPS hosting. For a starter business that has a low budget, there are two options to choose, a budgeted hosting or a shared business hosting. However choosing a budgeted hosting is not recommended for business or e-commerce site, but it’s okay if we have budget no more than 8$ a month. But if we can raise the budget a little bit higher, just choose a shared business hosting for a greater bandwidth and features. In the beginning we can choose the basic plan (about $10 a month), and if the business has grown larger, we can raise the budget to buy the pro package ($15 to $20 a month). Meanwhile, a VPS hosting is very suitable for small businesses that need more than a shared business hosting but are unable to buy a dedicated one. Yes, A VPS hosting can give us reliable bandwidth and server uptime as well as special features that are usually reserved for dedicated servers. For comparison, we can get a VPS hosting packages start from $50 a month, meanwhile we need more than $200 a month to get a basic dedicated server hosting package.

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