Web hosting companies are plentiful so you’ve got a lot of choices when you’re ready to go live on the Internet with your website. Consider using the tips below to help decipher the claims that various web hosting companies make and how they translate in importance to your business.
Small business people can usually skip over the unlimited disk and bandwidth claims made by web hosting companies. While this is important because it relates to how fast your page will be available to potential customers and how much material you’ll have on your page, currently most small businesses do not reach the limit of unlimited in terms of their website size.
While unlimited disk space and bandwidth advertisements are common, if your website begins to become too complicated as you add pages and other features, the web hosting company may try to shift you to a more expensive dedicated server category of service.
Most small businesses will be on shared servers, meaning that other websites will be on the server as well. When you’re assessing the service reviews of the web hosting company you’re considering, make certain that you’re examining the experience of those on the shared servers rather than those with more expensive plans or services.
Most small businesses will be on shared servers meaning that other websites will be on the server as well. When you’re assessing the service reviews of the web hosting company you’re considering, make certain that you’re examining the experience of those on the shared servers rather than those with more expensive plans or services.
Uptime is difficult to verify without reading reviews and complaints by other users of the web hosting company. You can also look up rankings about how different web hosting companies compare to determine how their uptime is working out.
The 99 percent number for uptime is advertised to appear more honest than claiming 100 percent uptime. Obviously web hosting includes maintenance which means there will be times when you will see a message such as the site is temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance.
Customer support refers to a wide range of reasons you will want to contact the web hosting company. Begin assessing a web hosting company’s customer service before you are a customer and after performing research about what others have said about the web hosting company’s customer service by making an inquiry on your own.
Good customer service should be rated on both the time it took you to get through to customer service, your wait time, who you spoke with and whether that person was able to give you a helpful response to your inquiry.
There are many infuriating aspects of customer service including the use of emails acknowledging your inquiry and promising a response in some longer period of time. While this might technically qualify as a very quick response to your inquiry, it is meaningless in terms of customer service beyond confirming that your question has been received.
It’s important to investigate how well the web hosting company you’re considering using performs. Use the tips above to research specific aspects of web hosting companies that can contribute to how well your website will be viewed by potential customers.