5 Important Tips For Choosing a Best Web Hosting Service

If your website is currently hosted somewhere but you wanna shift to any other web hosting company, there are various factors that must be considered while choosing a best web host for your website. Some important factors include technical support options, customer reviews, price and more.

Here, in this post I’m going to provide you 5 important tips for choosing a best web hosting service to host your website.

If you’re a beginner to blogging and hosting, don’t worry as the following tips will be very helpful for you to select a great, trusted and feature rich web host for your new website or blog.

Before telling you the tips for choosing a best web host for your blog or website, first of all I would like to tell you some demerits of hosting your website at untrusted website or at any web host you don’t have sufficient information about.

Demerits of Choosing an Unknown Web Host

• May Lose Your Website: The main thing you all should have in mind that your website is dependent on the web host and if you’re hosting with any non-trusted web hosting company, you may lose your data and even complete website. So, for every blogger it is recommended to keep the complete backup of your website.
• Bad Page Loading Speed: The small or unknown web hosts won’t keep their won servers, instead they may be resellers and that may lead to slow down the page loading speed. And as the page loading is nowadays a main ranking factor of various search engines like Google so you should take care of it.
• Worst Support: If you’re running a blog or website, it may happen many times that you need urgent support from your website but in case of a non-trusted or unknown web host, you may feel the bad technical support.

READ: Why I Migrated from HostGator to Other Hosting

And there may be several limitation of hosting your website with a bad web host. So, how can you find out that which web host is good and provides better support and have its own servers?

The following tips are all about selecting a better web hosting company. In fact, here are the 5 very helpful tips for choosing a best web hosting service for your website.

Helpful Tips to Choose a Best Web Hosting Service

Tip #1: Going for a Cheapest Web Host is not Always a Good Idea

I know everybody look for an affordable web host for their website but it’s not a good thing always. Because if you always look for a cheapest we hosting company, most the results will reach you to an unknown or maybe non-trusted web host that may lead to a bad impact on your website.

So, if you’re running a website for earning money, I strongly recommend you not to consider an affordable or cheapest web host, rather focus on services the web host offer regardless of its pricing because your business is going to be dependent of that web host. So, be careful of that!

Tip #2: Does it Have My Favorite Technical Support Option?

This question must arise in your mind before choosing a web hosting company because technical support is the most important thing that you may need multiple times and maybe in very immediate and urgent situation sometimes.

Different web hosts offer different kind of technical support options such as email support, live chat, phone support etc. In all these support options I mostly consider the phone support and then live chat because with these support options you can contact the technical expert immediately and solve out your issue on the spot.

So, it is also a very important thing you should have in mind before choosing a web hosting service for your website. I recommend you to consider the web host that offers at least one of these two – the phone support or live chat option.

Two of the world’s most popular hosting companies Bluehost and HostGator offer both the phone and live chat support. This time, my site is hosted with Bluehost.

Tip #3: What User Interface Your Web Host Offer?

It’s also a worth considering factor for every beginner while choosing a web host because different web hosts provide different user interfaces and you should know that what interface is best for you. Most of the bloggers including me use and recommend the cPanel as it is very easy to use.

It makes most of the tasks easy such as installing WordPress, setting up email, setting up FTP accounts, managing your database and many more.

Most of the web hosts take the extra amount for including cPanel in your package and honestly this little extra amount spent of cPanel will give you a bigger vantage.

Tip #4: See the Customer Reviews by Searching on Google

Do you know that why here I mentioned that see customer reviews by searching on Google because if you want to get the true information about any web host, don’t see the testimonials on their same website instead search for reviews on Google by providing the name of company. For example, if search for the review of Bluehost hosting company, I type in Google – Bluehost Review or Hosting experience with Bluehost etc. so that you can find the reviews of that hosting company by people who really experienced it.

READ: My Review of KnownHost Web Hosting

Tip #5: Look for the Area of Specialty of any Company

You know guys that different people or customers have different needs such as some want shared plan as their website is now not getting high traffic and some are enterprises and want more resources like RAM, processor and bandwidth. And you will be surprised to know that not the all web hosting companies can be good for all kind of customers as different companies focus on different area of specialty.

For example, some web hosts focus on shared plans and announce different offers on shared plans but are not that good for high traffic websites or businesses.

So, it’s also a good to know that what’s really the area of focus of the relevant company. For this whether you can search of the or simply without hesitating ask to the sales representative of that company.

A Few More Bonus Tips

Whether, you’re hosting your site on a trusted hosting provider but still don’t forget that your whole website is dependent on hosting and if unfortunately it fails, you will lose your site, so it is always highly recommended to everybody to keep daily backup of your website.

Moreover, as all the above mentioned tips are very useful and you must consider while choosing a web host for your website, but I personally wanna emphasize the second tip again because if you will be able to get instant support from your web host, all your hosting related problems can be fixed immediately.

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So, guys I hope these tips will be proven very helpful for you to choose a perfect web host for your blog or corporate website. I will be happy if you share with us…How did you find these tips? And let me know which web host you selected for your website?

Also check out this web hosting comparison on Hosting Foundry.

Still, having any problem is choosing a good web hosting service for your website? Let me know via comments!