10 Hosting Features Before Choosing One Web Hosting Company

In Web Hosting Articles | on August 17, 2009

10 Hosting Features You Must Check Before Choosing One
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As you see, there’re so many web hosting service providers in the market today and to choose a good web hosting company which is becoming difficult. Why? There’re so many web hosting reviews and people recommend, one could say this hosting is good and the other could recommend that one is good. How to search for a Good Web Hosting service for your real requirement?

Okay, thank you for visiting my website and I’ll bring you 1o tips to evaluate one hosting company, which should be useful for you to choose a good hosting company.
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1. Amount of Disk space:
How much disk space do you need? If there’re many images & video files on your website, it should require to choose a web hosting company who can offer large disk space. Now there’re many hosting providers announce to offer unlimited disk space, before you select web hosting, you should check whether it’s true, once you choose to host with their “Unlimited space”, soon you could find, “Oh, no, they’re cheating me!” So, that’s important to clarify whether they can provide real unlimited space.
2. Bandwidth & Data Transfer:
Data transfer is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site. After you decide on the amount of web space you need, you need to consider sufficient bandwidth for efficient data transfer. Again, beware of “unlimited bandwidth” claims, there is always a limitation. To give you an idea, a typical traffic requirement is usually less than 3 GB of bandwidth per month. For a normal website, there’s no need to take too much traffic, if your website has a large traffic, then you should consider to choose VPS & Dedicated server.
3. Reliability, Secrurity & Speed Loading:
Yeah, the 3 factors are the key features for you to choose a web hosting, if your website are loading slowly, data not safe, I think no one could accept.

Besides, you have to be very cautious about security; especially if you have an e-commerce website. Your customers will expect security from you. You will definitely need SSL if you want to collect credit card payments on your site. Test the speed of a host’s network to your location by clicking (for windows users) Start > Run > Type in “command” and Enter, and then type “ping hostdomainname.com”. Wait for it to finish and look for the average ping. The lower the number the better, the faster your site will load. Averaging around an 80 ms could be considered good. You may also want to check if the company is legit by doing a WHOIS for the company’s domain name.

4. Customer Support:
Who’s the best customer support hosting company in the market? I’ve been hosted with many web hosting companies and with my real experience, Webhost4life is the best clients service web hosting company. Their support are really great, if you’ve contacted with anyone else who’s been hosted websites with them, I think their first response is their support is great.
Okay, how to evaluate one web hosting’s support? Here’re several key features you should check. 1. Does they offer Live Chat service? If they offer live chat, whether their response are professional? Does they offer 24 * 7 phone support? And how about their ticket reply time?
Ok, these are the key features you should check before you host the website with them.
5. Hosting Price:
If you’ve budget for the hosting cost, this is one feature you should check. Some hostings offer higher payments but much lower hosting service to the clients:) That should be very unacceptable. So you should check whether the hosting price is matched with the server performance.
6. Control Panel Functions:
Yeah, you should check whether the hosting companies offer enough permissions to their clients, some hosting companies don’t allow their clients to create Mssql database in the control panel which should be unacceptable:) That’s also one feature you should check before hosting the website with them.
7. Web Hosting Features:
Make sure that your hosting plan has all the features you need to get your site up and running properly. FTP access provides the ability to upload new pages. If you are using personal web builder, FTP access is crucial for you. FTP provides more flexibility when managing your website. Also, if your web site is built with any server side scripting features, make sure you host supports the scripting language you are using, be it ASP or ASP.NET, PHP, Perl and so on. Also chances are that you’ll need a database tool as well, such as Microsoft SQL or MySQL.
8. Data Backup:
Yeah, this is real important. Why? As you see, on one shared hosting servers, there’re many users on one server, if one user’s website was affected by virus or hacked, your websites are proprably affected too. You should check whether the hosting company can offer daily backups, if not, leave them as soon as possible:)
9. Email services:
Get an email through your domain name. It looks more professional and official and helps you to stay in touch with your visitors. Investigate the email services provided by your hosting company. Do they support POP3 or IMAP4 or only offer webmail? Do they offer Hosted Exchange or Business-Grade email? How many email addresses are provided with their web hosting plans? Can you set an email address to automatically reply (autoresponder) or forwarded to your existing e-mail address? Make sure they have all the features you’re looking for in an email host.
10: Traffic Statistics & Logs:
Good web hosting should offer the traffic statistics of your websites and you can check the logs of files modified.

Okay, the above are the 10 normal features you should check before choosing one hosting company, if you like the articles, welcome to share and leave link back.

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