Choosing a Hosting Provider!

From the desire to create a website on the Web you went directly to the action? Alredy chosen the theme, domain, found a suitable CMS and have even written a few articles? It remains only to create a website and publish it on the Internet.
From the realization you are only in a step - selection of hosting. Unproperly selected hosting can deliver a lot of trouble, and perhaps losses in the future. As you remember about types of hosting, I already wrote in a previous article What’s Hosting? Types of Hosting.
Before you go directly to the choice of hosting, you need to be clear what would be your future website:
- how many disk space you need;
- the intended audience. If USA, then it is desirable to choose a hosting service on USA servers, closer to home;
- number of visitors - will it be a forum with thousands of people (in the future) or site card with attendance of several people a day;
- will you lay out music and video for downloading .

In the article "What's Hosting?Types of Hosting", we have found that hosting can be paid and free. The second variant we will not take into consideration, because we want to make a profit from the site and free hosting for this is not suitable. Of course there are always those who would oppose this. But is it enough to watch some quality sites with a large audience, all of them are on paid hosting. And, the large and more popular project, the more expensive hosting.

What criteria should I look for when choosing a hosting service?

How to choose a hosting service
1. Price. For majority, this is one of the key indicators when choosing a hosting service. We are just beginning to earn online, opted for a virtual server, as the most accessible. 2-3 $ you get a minimum set of services, which, however, is quite sufficient for the maintenance of a website.
2. In second place for me is technical support. It would seem that this item can be placed last, because there are far more important indicators that affect the work of the site. But the professionalism, the adequacy and speed of response are equally important.
When you want to evaluate the support, the first what you should pay attention for is time schedule. It is desirable 24/7. Imagine a situation where on a Friday evening site falls, and you can contact the technical support only on Monday. As a minimum, it is unpleasant. If the site started to make a profit, during these two days losses are possible.
The second point - the speed and quality of responses. It is unlikely that you will like to wait for answers for a few days. Therefore please check: how adequate and professional is customer support. It is simple enough. Prepare a list of questions to your future hosting provider and send them to e-mail. It is possible to judge the quality of technical support, on how quickly the answer will come, and how complete will it be.
3. Technology. For a simple static site on html the choice of hosting is not a big deal. Almost any variant with a minimum set of functions will fit. But for perspective, and dynamic website created on CMS a support of PHP, Perl, MySQL, FTP, CGI, ASP will be required.
Pay attention to your operating system. They differ in the programming languages supported. The most popular are Windows and Linux.
4. The amount of disk space - is the amount of disk space that is allocated for your site. It ranges from a few hundred megabytes to tens of gigabytes. How much you need depends on the type of project. For information resources, and blogs are usually fits the minimum amount. But it is better to take a margin.
5. Control panel will definitely required for beginners, allowing even unexrperienced user to manage the site, create subdomains, mailboxes, new users, etc.
6. If in future you plan to create more sites, find out the maximum number of websites you can create on one account.
7. Traffic. It is unlikely that you will be able to assess in advance it for a future project, so it is advisable to choose a hosting with unlimited traffic.
8. Quite an important is UpTime (uptime) - uptime work of server within a certain period of time. It is clear that it can not be equal to 100%, but should aspire to. We do not want our site be unavailable from time to time. As normal value is considered if it's above 99%.
9. Permitted load. What is a server? It is a regular computer that hosts a certain number of sites. You allocated space for the physical layout of the site and part of the server resources when you buy hosting. If the project will create the more load on server as permitted, you may be asked to move to a more expensive service package, or change the hosting. So you should choose a hosting service, where the permitted load is more.
10. Assess the appearance of the site. Serious hosting company well be able to take care of quality design. Note the presence of contacts, they must be placed on your site.
So, you have chosen hosting that meets your requirements. But do not rush immediately to pay for it. First, it will be usefil to read user reviews. You can use the search for it.
Don't be satisfied with only two reviews. It may just be advertising company, find as many reviews as possible, analyze them and only then make the final decision.
Also, a given host can have a test period during which you can place your site absolutely for free. After this period, if you are satisfied, you can pay for the service.

Here you can find trusted hosting for an affordable price.

P. S. If you have any problems with the functioning of the equipment or operation of databases, you may need to seek a specialist who deals with maintenance of servers.

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