Which Is The Best Web Hosting Company For Your Website?

Featured article by Prumar Singh, Web Developer and Independent Author

You need a reliable web host that comes with a package with features suitable to handle your business needs now and in the future. There are many web hosting companies in the market and an equally big number of models or types of web hosting. As a business developer and/or manager, you must have a thorough evaluation of the best package for your business.

You should note that your web hosts shouldn’t be the most expensive one in the market. It has been shown that the cheapest web hosts still manage to offer the best hosting services in their packages.

Below are the features you should look for in a web hosting provider:

1. Trustworthy

You will be entrusting a host to your online domain and access to your website in a way. The host should have the best security systems in place for your business. You can tell a trustworthy web host by going through the reviews they have received from their customers as well as reviews from online review companies. Consider both negative and positive reviews before making the decision.

You may also take a direct approach by asking about their security systems and the partnerships they have to cover security systems extensively.

2. Affordable

A web hosting company should have affordable rates for their annual and/or monthly hosting. The rates should also correlate with the services they offer. You do not want to have a web hosting service that is cheap but with a small space package or with a big downtime.

Pay a dollar more if you should and get the best package with beneficial features. However, there are many cheap hosting companies that will offer the best packages at very affordable annual rates.

3. Hosting service

The best hosting company has to be the one that is willing and able to offer hosting services for different groups of people. This means offering different hosting products like shared hosting, VPS hosting cloud hosting, green hosting, e-mail hosting, PHP hosting, colocation hosting or dedicated server hosting.

A hosting company with many hosting choices at reasonable rates is preferable to one with less hosting modules at lower rates. Naturally, you may wish to upgrade your hosting type later on.

4. Storage space and bandwidth

However cheap a web hosting company service are, there is a possibility that there will be limitation in the storage space or a smaller bandwidth allocated. The stated unlimited storage or bandwidth may be false slowing down operations or forcing you to spend more on storage. You’d rather part with a little extra cash than have to spend less for storage now for more later.

5. Database& script support

You should consider hosting from a company with the best web development support for databases. A web host offering MySQL database support is preferable to one that doesn’t. It should also support running of popular scripts such as WordPress.

In conclusion, your business’s webhosting company should offer hosting services that will give you good value for your money now and in future. You should be able to run your businesses without prolonged downtimes and also without storage and bandwidth issues. Your customers like efficiency and they will not appreciate a slow service delivery or information access.

Author Bio

Prumar Singh is a web developer and the owner of a leading web hosting company. He is also a business advisor on digitalization and qualities of the cheap hosting companies. Read more on hosting from him on his LinkedIn profile and his Slide shares.