Web hosting 101: What to look for
Can't get past those fancy tech terms and abbreviations? Here are the dos and don'ts when choosing a provider to host your site. What Web hosting tips do you have?
From Aric, New York City, New York State Also it is wise to check some customer rated web hosting review site. The opinions from those kind of websites are more believable since it is based on votes from real users.
From Ravi, New York, NY There are several small, local hosting providers in different geographies that provide very good customer service and are as competitive as the global / national providers. Local providers in many cases have comparable infrastructure for SMBs and have the advantage of being readily accessible (with easier access to top management as well).
One site which offers a personalized approach to ranking web hosting service providers is ProCompare (http://www.procompare.com/top/Web-Hosting). The reviews are obtained from the global community of IT experts and professionals.
From Defenestrator, Tulsa, OK Shared hosting almost universally sucks. It's cheap, and you get what you paid for: minimal customer service if something goes wrong, a mostly-worthless SLA that will be honored only in the most extreme cases such as a multi-day outage that's clearly the host's fault, and a host who will drop your site offline at the slightest complaint or load increase. In particular, the word "Unlimited" in any cheap shared host actually means "hidden limit, will surprise you later". If you actually need reliability, at the very least go with a host that clearly defines the limits and charges for exceeding them. If you can fit a tiny bit more in the budget and have the admin capabilities, a good VPS from someplace like VPSlink, Slicehost, or Linode is a good way to go. A bit more budget, and two or more dedicated servers at a multi-homed datacenter will give you something approaching true reliability.
From Nancye, Gaithersburg, MD As a freelance website designer, I've used many web hosts. The all time WORST i've used is IPower – stay away from them. Unreliable & horrific customer service.
I highly recommend HostGator. HostGator.com
They have all the bells & whistles, and a great price. I've never had any downtime. Excellent Customer Service too. Ya can't beat them.
From Sam, Maytown, PA For small companies looking for a basic web presence (vs. an e-commerce solution), I'd suggest using free service providers weebly.com for webhosting and Google Hosted Mail for e-mail services. You will need to pay a domain hosting provider (i.e. Verio, GoDaddy, etc..) to obtain your domain name and "point" it to these service providers.
Weebly provides a drag and drop site design approach with several themes to choose from. No HTML programming skill are required, but custom HTML code can be added. This service is free with the caveat that a small text add is placed at the bottom of your site linking back to Weebly. This can be removed for a small fee, but is no more noticeable than a "designed by XXX" link visible on many websites.
Google offers e-mail handling for your domain with it Hosted Mail service. Companies requiring a large number of mailboxes and storage space would need to pay a fee. However, the service is free to those that only require a minimum of mailboxes and storage.
I’ve used Weebly to design websites for small local business such as targetyourdiscount.com. The service has been excellent with no downtime in the last 3 months I’ve used it and the price cannot be beat.
From Kelly, La Crosse, WI I recommend finding the least expensive host with the best up time for small businesses. You can then invest more money in web design and content. One good host I recommend is http://www.TheBlueKingdom.com – they offer plans for $3.99, which will be very cost efficient for a small business owner. Good Luck!
From Dr. Intercambio The article raises several good points, it's not always easy to find a "perfect" hosting company, actually it's Never easy. Some companies I know of have not just one but two hostings so if one is not working well – or at at all – then it just moves to the alternate hosting. There are plenty of competition out there and prices vary greatly so most companies can do that for their online safety, and reputation.
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From scrooge great hosting tips list. Though I wouldn't go so far as to say it's as black and white as you make it out to be.
From Peter Katomelus, Trenton, NJ Good luck to anyone looking – it took me three tries to find a host that really seems to work out. Pay attention to the article and above all make sure they have a way to get your money back in however many days if it doesn't work out (If it helps anyone been using phpwebhosting.com as my web host for about two years and so far, so good).
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