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Today I’m going to teach to you how to choose web hosting for your website. The Internet is very big, bigger than you can imagine and there are so many hosting companies for every budget. You can chose between free web hosting and paid web hosting.
Hosting is very important for your success. If your website is down a lot or your website is slow then visitors don’t want to stay on your site or visit your site so much, but if it’s fast, looks good then you can get lots of visitors. I suggest to beginners to follow these following steps to save money and valuable time.
Purchase as much resources as much you need
This part is important on saving money part. Why you have to pay for extra gigabytes or bandwidth that you don’t need. If you are going to build your website I would suggest you to sign up with a free web hosting. x10Hosting.com is very good company for beginners. Their servers are fast enough and you don’t have to pay for hosting. It saves you a lot of money and time. If you are going to make a blog then you don’t need 10GB or Unlimited space for your website. 500MB is enough for blogs that get 1000 daily visitors. Small plans will cost you maybe $1-2 per month and it’s not much. If you place Google’s ads onto your site.. you will earn $1-2 with 1000 visitors with hours.
Select a scalable hosting solution
With time your website will grow. Demand for bandwidth and space grows (if you have a forum that allows uploading avatars and attachments). Make sure that you chose a web hosting company that allows you to upgrade your hosting package. Getting your site suspended for using too much bandwidth is just a stupid way to lose money. If this kind of thing happens then it’s usually possible to buy extra bandwidth. It don’t cost much, maybe $0.50-$1 per gigabyte. It gives you time to upgrade your hosting package or if you can’t upgrade then chose another hosting company.
Check paying solutions
Usually hosting companies accept credit cards and PayPal. I would suggest using PayPal because they can’t take money from there themselves. It would be good when you want to change your hosting company. Using a credit card is risky because they can access your money when ever they want. (Don’t understand it word by word.) There are many cases when hosting companies have charged more money than they should when their customer has moved to another company. If you don’t have PayPal account then you can get it here: https://www.paypal.com/. You can add money to your PP account from your credit card so there won’t be any problems and it’s more secure for you also.
Getting support from hosting company
Getting support from hosting company is important for beginners. Chose a company that gives 24/7 technical support for it’s customers. It’s not required, but it would be better for you. Also make sure they have live support or email support. Live support is very good because then you don’t have to wait for responses and waiting for support doesn’t feel good when you have a big problem. Most of hosting companies have ticket based support by default.
Abuse, billing, sales, support departments?! Why so many and what they are? Well?
Abuse department is for reporting abusers, those who are using too much server physical resources like RAM or they are using nulled scripts or stuff like that.
Billing department is for questions that are related to paying your bills.
Sales department is a place where you can ask about hosting packages, about server and about stuff that you want to order (domains, hosting packages, dedicated ips, SSL certificates etc.).
Support department is for asking support if there’s something wrong with your control panel or how to make a database, email account etc.
Backup your data
Backing up your data is very important because nobody knows when accident might happen. Make sure to make regular copies of your database because when server gets damaged it’s almost impossible to get your stuff back. You don’t want to lose thousands posts and visitors, don’t you? Also you should backup your files. Lot’s of companies use cPanel control panel which is very simple and there you can backup everything important that you need. You can access backup panel by visiting this URL (if you are using cPanel):
yourwebsite.xxx/cpanel
Be the owner of your domain name
Sometimes when you are ordering a domain from your web hosting company and they register it for you it’s possible that they are using their contact info. This is not good because if you want to change your hosting company it’s possible that they are going to charge you extra for that domain or they don’t let you go. Their info can be in technical support, but that’s all.. because you bought this domain not they! If this kind of thing happens contact your hosting company and ask them to change this info.
Do a little research about them
There’s nothing bad about doing a little research of your new or current hosting company. Then you get to know are they reliable and how they will treat you and what you offer. It’s good to know whether they are a reseller company or a company that owns their own servers. This second part would be the best for you, but there’s nothing bad about resellers also. Only bad thing about resellers might be that they won’t offer quality support for you because they might not know all things that “real” companies know.
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