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Webhosting Is Essential
A top 10 hosting service is essential for any business trying the web. Using a well established and reliable provider you should have few problems and will be able to offer a good service to your customers, by your website always being available and loading quickly. Google are now taking loading speed into account when generating their search results so if you are aiming for a good search engine ranking, top website hosting is even more important.
Forget about 10 web hosting, you will have to pay for the standard of service you’ll need. There are plenty of website hosting providers which can provide the amount of service required and a web search will find several sites which list the top suppliers. Unfortunately it’s not quite as easy as that because these sites differ in their views regarding the top hosting companies which is usually difficult to directly compare reviews.
To get through this and make a good choice you have to be clear about what you need:
Linux or Microsoft Hosting:- This is something your site developers will advise on, if you’re having a site built for you. If, for example, they build a site which requires a Microsoft hosting environment it’s no good becoming a member of a Linux package. If you’re building your own site it is best to go for a Linux package.
Shared, VPS, Dedicated Server:- Top website hosting providers offer a range of services offering more resources, bandwidth, disk space etc. and reduced competition with other users for these resources. If you are starting a new site a basic best hosting package will be fine. Here multiple users have their websites and email on a single server and share the disk space, bandwidth etc..
Reliability and Speed:- A site that is not available is a sure way to lose customers and a site that loads slowly will result in frustration for your customers. Locate a guarantee of uptime with a minimum of 99.9% and also search for recent user comments on potential hosting providers.
Help and Support:- This might be overlooked at the outset but it will become very important if problems arise. You should expect to see support provided 24/7 by email and phone.
Bandwidth and Disk Space:- So as to unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth are now commonly advertised. This is really just a marketing gimmick as it is obvious that the disk capacity in the server is finite, as is the provider’s bandwidth, so the conditions and terms will probably include some kind of limitation. Having said that, these resources won’t be an issue for a new site for the short term, and probably never, unless it becomes very busy (or makes extensive use of video).
Domains/Databases:- The basic sharing packages of many hosting providers limits these. If you’re only interested in creating a single website these packages will be fine – you can always upgrade later.
Price:- You may think it odd to put cost last but the price differences between the top website hosting providers are small enough to make the above factors more important. You normally pay a number of months in advance (the more months the cheaper it is per month) but some providers will allow you to pay monthly.
