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How to Find the Right Hosting for Your Company

July 21, 2016 - Last Modified: July 21, 2016 by Kevin Bateman

Among the thousands of web hosting companies offering you the “best” service, it’s hard to choose the company to patronize as your web host. Choosing a web host is an important decision to make, especially that web hosts are one of the fundamentals in keeping your site, alive.

In selecting a web hosting service, we primarily consider the features that come with the cost. We love freebies, we love cheap prices. As soon as we get a lot of freebies for a good price, we immediately consider their service above the others.

Although we cannot deny that there are some good hosting companies that offer affordable packages, most of the time we are blinded by promos and coupons tricking us to believe that we indeed have saved a lot, but in the long run, we may incur expenses especially if we selected a bad host.

Selecting a bad web host can negatively influence your website; oftentimes, cheap hosting sites offer good, tempting deals. These tempting deals can seduce you into subscribing; we know how attractive it is to save a lot of money! However, you get what you pay for; that is, cheap hosting for a cheap price.

Why bother? Here’s how crappy web hosting can ruin your website:

  • It can ruin your SEO efforts. Yeah you provide the best content, you have implemented Technical SEO well enough in your website; all of these are wasted with a bad web host. Inefficient web hosting leads to increase in downtime and slower loading times. Site speed is a ranking signal; think of site speed as a booster pack in your efforts to rank your site.
  • Security issues. Cheap web hosting platforms are more susceptible to malware attacks. Bad hosting usually has weak defenses against malware. For example, once your site has been detected as infected by Google, they will tag you as an infected site, and it prevents users to proceed to your website.
  • Useless traffic. With a dysfunctional website, your marketing campaign efforts are useless as well. Attracting a large number of visitors to your site will not yield results for your campaign.

How do you determine the good from the bad? How can we weed out false advertisements from its true face value?

There are three things you should consider in choosing a good web host company. You should consider a host’s performance, how fair their price is, and how well their support is in coping with questions or complaints. Don’t be blinded by the perks they offer, be a wise consumer with these tips!

How Good is their Performance?

  • Uptime vs Downtime. A web host company should offer 99.99% uptime as part of their guarantee. Why 99.99%? Does that seem far fetched? 99% uptime equates to about seven hours of downtime each month, which equals about three and a half days each year. Imagine, 3 ½ days that your site won’t have service. Imagine all the lost opportunities!
  • Loading speed can be under 500ms. Your host plays a big role in the loading speed of your website. Although there are site elements that can largely affect this, at least your web host can support your site and aim for this half-second rule. Google has determined this duration as the optimal site loading speed for websites.
  • Go for unmetered, NOT UNLIMITED. Unmetered disk space and bandwidth offers are better than unlimited. More often, unlimited disk space and bandwidth offer these kind of deals: “Yes we offer unlimited bandwidth, with the first 15GB free of charge!” This means that the rest is charged to your account, whether per additional GB or another.

Do they offer Competitive Pricing?

  • Affordably reasonable pricing. The top web host providers actually offer decent shared hosting plans for under $5 per month, averaging at $3 per month.
  • A FREE domain is appreciated, and one of the common perks offered with the hosting service. During significant promos, they also offer discounts on domain registrations, transfers, and SSLs.
  • How much is it the next few years after? Renewal fees should be listed out; some companies enable registrants to select the duration of their registration, spanning from a year up to 12 years. If you’re on a tight budget, you can avail for a yearly renewal plan. Properly check your cart before checking out. A basic hosting plan should include the following, or offer them as an additional option: Privacy Protection, SSL Certificate (optional), ICANN, and even a private email.
  • 30-Day Money Back Guarantee. You have the opportunity to test their service. If you don’t like what you get, you can always back out. Always look for this guarantee.

How Do They Deal with Support?

  • Live Chat Support. Who doesn’t love instant replies? A live chat support can get your problems solved sooner. If they have a Frequently Asked Questions page, the better.
  • Details such as business name and address should be available in the site, so you can confirm if they are a legitimate business, and not some fly-by-night company just trying to get your money.

Judging from these qualifications, you can now select the best web hosting company for your website.

Do you have more tips on how to choose the best hosting for your site? Tell us in the comments!

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About Kevin Bateman

As a Cyber Vulnerability Researcher of Comodo SSL and Mobile Device Management, Kev is well versed in focus areas such as Reverse Engineering, Vulnerability Research, Hypervisors, and Malware. During his free time, he writes posts about web development and cybersecurity issues.

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{ 15 Responses }

  1. RAMIT says:
    Hello! Choosing a web host is a tough decision. Security issues, support and pricing are just some of the points one must look while selecting a hosting company. Great Post Indeed! You have come up with an in-depth insight about choosing a web hosting company. Thanks for sharing.
    • Kevin Bateman says:
      Thanks, Ramit! I hope to contribute more useful articles to FamousBloggers!
  2. Hubert Jason says:
    First and the most tricky part. Wrong selection can harm work
    • Kevin Bateman says:
      That's absolutely true, Hubert.
  3. Van Miguel says:
    Finding the right company will be really beneficial for the hosting of your website in terms of customer appreciation and online viewership. Yes i am perfecly agrees with you. In case if the hosting company which you have select does not deliver the required benefits then it will easily could ruin your all SEO efforts.
    • John says:
      Thank you Van!
  4. Annette Gallant says:
    Selecting of hosting is crucial and has controlling results as to how you can develop you software products, what technologies are compatible with the server software, and security implications and differences among the various server software!
    • John says:
      Yes, data security is indeed important to consider too.
  5. Sylvester Bateman says:
    There is soo many companies in the market now and people easily get confused which one can give them best service , good information you have shared this one can definitely going to help me . And I want to help you to increase your business and explore it online , there is one website called YoureStatus.com which enables local business owners to add a listing for their business. Using YoureStatus directory local business owners can verify their existing listing, edit or update the listing information, services and other information that shows their business in the best possible way. And you can get Online Customers for Your Business too.
  6. Mark Stephen says:
    Thanks ! John Stevens for sharing this perfect info about how one can find the perfect hosting. Factors which you have above mentioned are really the decisive ones so as to select any hosting company. Before selecting any it will be beneficial to first evaluate the return on investment (ROI) of selecting it otherwise as its above mentioned that you might have to face a decline in your SEO strategy results. Thanks for sharing this great info...
    • John says:
      That's true. It's hard to commit on a web host right away. It's a tough decision.
  7. Jessica Martin says:
    Yes we can select a best hosting for the company by taking the feedback from previous companies who are experienced with that particular product or Business. Thank you for sharing such a nice posting about hosting.
    • John says:
      Thank you Jessica! :) Another thing to consider aside from usage reviews is support reviews; the better the support team, the better their service is. :)
  8. Kunal Mehta says:
    It was the most difficult part and the most important part in the initial phase of any company. As a pro blogger i can understand how important and difficult it could be but now as i know the best one's in the market i directly go to them.
    • John says:
      That's true. For us @ Hosting Facts we give people real, unbiased reviews to help them with their decision. It's a big commitment to get a hosting for your website.

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