How to Choose A Web Host that Works!

These days, every web host you see claims to be the most unsurpassed.

But how do you TRUTHFULLY know `which is the greatest web host?

To begin with, you need to break it down to what you need, which is either 3 types of hosting: Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, or Dedicated Hosting.

Firstly, you are most likely after shared hosting, which is entry and medium level hosting for small to medium sites. VPS Hosting and Dedicated Hosting are both more costly but can handle the resource demands on more popular web site.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Control Panel:

This is the online software that will let you tweak your site settings and even view your visitor statistics, such as which web site they came from, which country they are in and some other details. Without this, everything becomes 20 times as hard. Creating an email account to use will suddenly take an hour of research instead of 20 easy seconds and will suddenly involve almost programmer level skill requirements without this simple interface. Your Control Panel makes doing any of this, easy for absolutely anyone. Only go with hosts offering “cPanel” (or possibly even, “DirectAdmin”). If they don’t offer these, look somewhere else.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Support:

Everyone wants top web hosting support that will answer their questions quickly. But if you are paying $3 a month, you can’t expect support that’s going to be that of high quality. But some support should be available. Check if they have a number to call (most won’t – which isn’t that much of a bad thing), but if they have a “Live Support” chat button, that’s a big plus, and a very useful thing to have accessible to you in case you need to contact them with speed due to any problems.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Reliability and Uptime

If they are not offering a 99.9% Uptime guarantee, look somewhere else. Downtime is stressing and costly for anyone advertising their websites. Web visitors that come to your site when it’s down, will be very turned off to coming back. The simple way to know of their reliability is to read reviews and other people’s opinions. However a fast way to test speed (but not quite reliable) is to see how fast the host’s own web page loads up for you, which can give you an sign of what kind of speed your site will be load with.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Free Scripts

If the web host you want to choose is running cPanel, they will very often provide you with over 50+ free easy-to-install scripts through an addon known as “Fantastico”. This is quite useful, as it includes entire e-commerce shopping carts, CMS systems, forum software and heaps of extras, all installable with one mouse click. Not absolutely required, but certainly comes in useful.

An A-Grade Web Host’s Per Month Pricing

Now if you are like a good number of people. You want good value, and don’t want to use up your budget. Web Hosting has become a “commodity” item with plenty of competition. You can even find web hosts offering hosting for a measly $3 a month. However, you can expect downtime and slowness and emotional distress with these confusingly cheap web hosts. End result, not worth saving a couple of bucks with these cheaper than chips web hosts. Go for something around the $8-12 mark. Yes that’s over 4 times the amount of our $2 comparison. But this means the web host can actually afford to give you good support and put your account on a server that will always be up, and actually run fast.

In truth, you WILL pay far more with a super-cheap web host because of downtime, unusual slowness, lost visitors and lost revenue, poor support, and your own frustration when you check and see your website is down and your host is out of reach to help – or are very slow to respond. Web hosting is truly something that will get you in the behind if you go with the cheapest is best mentality and that is in fact the truth.

Article Source: http://www.myaddirectory.com

About The Hosting Guru: J Collinsworth has been online the mid 90’s (long time), and has time-tested many different web hosts and gives away Discount Web Hosting coupons for proven to be quality web hosts. Visit his website for more information: www.HostgatorReview.info

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