The best web hosting service will allow you a lot of bandwidth and provide you will a lot of uptime. Anything else is considered sub-par.
Finding the Best Web Hosting Service
Finding the best web hosting service is not a simple matter. You need patience and lots of market research to get to the source of a great hosting provider. Many companies claim to provide the best services on the net, but really, only a handful can deliver what they promise. There are things you should consider when looking for the web hosting service you need.
When you’re on an online business, always think about the server uptime being offered by the hosting servers. This feature allows for the best possible uptime for your site, and should be verified before deciding on your web hosting server. It makes no sense to have a site that is always down. The industry standard is actually 99.9%, which means your site would only be down for a couple of minutes a month. Anything more is unexceptable.
Make sure you have all the bases covered when choosing your best web hosting service
Web hosting is basically ‘dealing’ place and application from hosting. You have already taken the first step in getting your own computer or two, and now you need to find your web hosting company. Buying the computer was a major outlay, so now the hosting service is there to save you time and money. What you need is disk space and bandwidth, two of the most important factors of web hosting services.
Disk space is the amount of space the web host server gives you when you sign up with them, while bandwidth measures how much traffic your site or blog can deal with. If the bandwidth allotment is too small, your website can go down if unexpected traffic comes in, or when clicks go beyond a limit. If you’re expecting large amounts of interchange in your website, make sure you have sufficient disk space and bandwidth to steer clear of ‘crashing’ problems.
So what is a good amount of bandwidth for a hosting service. A lot of companies such as Hostgator will tell you, you will receive an unlimited amount of bandwidth, but as rule of thumb I would have to say that 200 GB should be sufficient for a decent shared hosting plan. Hostgator can get away with this because they are such a huge company. However, smaller hosting services can not get away with this, as they do not have the resources to back up their claims.
Did you know that there are actually well over 1,000 hosting sites? I wanted to ask you here at Technically Easy what hosting services you are using to operate your web hosting sites? And are you happy with them? Do you think they are the best web hosting service for you?
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on October 24, 2010 at 11:05 pm
I use GoDaddy simply because I’m continually amazed how helpful and dedicated each representative is to solving any problem I have as well as answering each and every question. I started using them because that’s who I registered the domain name with, but I’ve stayed with them since then because their service is incredible. If you’ve ever used their service, I’m sure you can confirm exactly what I’m talking about.
on October 25, 2010 at 9:45 am
It’s good to hear you have had a good experience with GoDaddy. I haven’ t used their hosting service before so I really can’t comment on their service.
on October 28, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Great advice Garen. Here’s something that happened to me the other day when I was setting up my daughter’s WordPress blog. The plugins weren’t uploading and it turns out 1and1 said they needed to upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5. I don’t know much about hosting, but I would think that all of their clients would be upgraded at same time. What’s the deal on that?
Paul – thanks for sharing Garen’s post with us!
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on November 1, 2010 at 9:24 pm
To put it lightly it is 1and1
Kind of shady web hosting company. Kind of odd that they would use PHP 4. Been out of date for a long time now!
Garen
on November 1, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Stephen,
Sorry for the delayed response. I used to use GoDaddy but after countless problems with them I switched to InMotion hosting. I was even a little upset with them and made a kind of entertaining blog post for GoDaddy (the biggest thing I noticed was my speed was so slow with GoDaddy):
http://the-best-web-hosting-service.com/blog/2010/10/why-i-wont-use-godaddy-again/
on November 3, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Wow, I read that article and it’s brutal. Was it difficult to switch to InMotion (from GoDaddy)? I’m not familiar with the process.
When I bought the domain (in late June/early July), I also got 6 months of hosting just because I knew there were other companies out there and I didn’t know the ropes yet. Plus, like I said before, they’ve been really good to me so far.
That said, I did have an example similar to yours in the article where I had malware on my site and they weren’t able to find it, but they did offer a service for $70/year. Turns out I was able to find it and fix the problem. At the time, until I read your article, I thought it was my fault. Obviously, that’s not necessarily the case.
I will certainly have to look into switching over so if you have any pointers, please let me know. Thanks!
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on November 3, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Painless switching to Inmotion. Inmotion actually called me on my cell phone after I signed up. They backed up everything from GoDaddy and all I had to do was change my DNS. Also, they exported my MySQL databases so my blog worked on Inmotion. It was really awesome, I was expecting a headache! I did notice that Inmotion was lot faster too, really was kind of surprised.
on November 3, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Excellent! I’m going to really have to look into that. Luckily, I have about a month before I really have to make a decision. Ironic too, because I was thinking I would max out my hosting with GoDaddy about a week or two ago. Really glad I came across this!
Thanks Garen!
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on November 3, 2010 at 10:34 pm
sure no problem, if you need any help email me at garen@deaddogdesign dot net.
(hopefully you don’t have any problems with GoDaddy, but I did and so did so many others.)
on November 3, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Will do. I really appreciate it!
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on November 10, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Hostgator rocks..enuff said
Great support, service, and always upgrade their services/servers
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on November 11, 2010 at 10:48 am
If I were to change hosting services, I would probably change to Hostgator.
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