The Best Web Hosting Solution Checklist

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By bdc2720 | April 24, 2008

I decided that since people make so many mistakes when it comes to looking for the best web hosting solution I would make a simple checklist to help. If you find a hosting service make sure they tick each box before you join. If you do you are almost guaranteed to be pleased with the provider you choose.

Here is the checklist:

1. Pricing

As tempting as the cheapest option may be don’t just sign up with them, they may well be the best choice but until you actually look into them you won’t know that. Also some opt for the dearest option thinking it is a guarantee of greatness but it isn’t, plus it really isn’t necessary to spend a fortune when good hosting can be found at a more affordable price.

2. Features

Make sure that the hosting provider you are thinking of joining actually offers the tools and features that you are looking for, if they don’t look for another company as someone somewhere will offer what you want and probably for a very similar price. A simple example of this is if you are technically useless and feel you need a site builder then you should find a service that offers one for free.

3. Size

The amount of bandwidth and disk space you get with your hosting package isn’t really going to be the issue many believe as very few sites reach their limits, in fact a large number use less than 10% of it. For this reason if you find two services that completes the checklist and the only difference is one has a lower price but less space/ bandwidth then I’d recommend you go with that for this reason rather than paying more for space you probably won’t use.

4. Performance

Take the time to look into the reliability of the hosting company as it is such an important part of your sites success. Ignore the sites own 99.9% uptime claim and check out stats found on a review site or search for forums or discussion boards with users of the service for their opinions.

5. Customer Support.

Try to find out what kind of reputation a company has for its customer support because you will probably need to use it at some point.

If a site meets all the above criteria then you will almost certainly end up with the best web hosting solution for you.

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