What is Good Web Hosting?
Posted on November 14, 2008
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Good webhosting can be a hard thing to spot with all the offers out there. As the price of running a webhosting company has dropped due in part to the falling technology prices, the amount of webhosting companies offering deals which all sound pretty similar has rocketed.
So how do you sort the webhosting chaff from the weeds?
Good webhosting can be a
hard thing to spot with all the offers out there. As the price of running a
webhosting company has dropped due in part to the falling technology prices,
the amount of webhosting companies offering deals which all sound pretty
similar has rocketed.
So how do you sort the
webhosting chaff from the weeds?
Due to the similarity
between most deals on offer, the number 1 must have is good, 24/7 customer
support - in order to have this a webhost will have to be well established and
be running a well organised webhosting business. It is preferable for the
support staff to be based at the server farm and essential that they are well
trained in server management ? it is a good idea to telephone the customer
support line of any potential webhost to get a feel for their level of
knowledge, you can also ask them about their company infrastructure.
The next vital requirement
is a good connection, i.e. sufficient bandwidth, this affects the download
speed of your website, a good way to check this is to see how fast their site
loads in your browser, especially at peak times such as when people are just
getting home from work. A good host will have connection redundancy i.e. more
than one connection, you can ask about this when you speak to their customer
support.
The next factor you need
to consider is their published uptime, if a webhosting provider has a published
uptime of 99% it may sound pretty good, until you realise that over the course
of one month equals 7.2hrs or 3.6 days per year ? that’s 3days 14 ½ hours that
you are not making money. It is therefore imperative that you choose a
webhosting company, which has a 99.99% uptime guarantee.
There are many other
factors to consider when deciding upon a , further information can be found
at WhicDomainHost.
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