How To Choose A Reliable Yet Affordable Web Hosting Company
It’s been 8 days since my last post and it’s not without any reason. I simply couldn’t access this blog until now. Cannot edit. Cannot post. Cannot do anything. It’s so frustrating!
Now I’m in the process of migrating to a new web hosting company and this is the forth time I switch web host. I believe this new web hosting company is the most reliable at the best price, as it’s recommended to me by Andrew Wee, a dear friend of mine and a professional blogger. Andrew himself is also using this web hosting company for his blog.
Should you look for a reliable web hosting company, these are the basic things that you must look for:
- 24/7 phone and email support.
- Daily back-up service.
- Back-up power supply.
- Adequate disk space and bandwidth to host a reasonable number of sites.
- A reasonable number of email aliases and MySQL databases.
- An easy to use interface such as Cpanel.
- Free trial period or at least 30-day money back guarantee, where this is a good time to test out their support response time.
- Fantastico is an advantage for many basic add-ons for blogs, content management, shopping carts and a lot more. With Fantastico you can install any of the available scripts (most are open source) like Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, WordPress, Coppermine and many others, with a few clicks of your mouse. Otherwise, you will have upload the script and install it manually.
Thank you fellow Warriors for your valuable advice. I really appreciate it.
So you consider this web hosting company and give it a try. Remember that your web hosting company decides your website’s dead or alive. And for an Interner marketer, a dead website can mean a dead business and losing a lot of money. You don’t want this to happen to you, do you?
Comment by Peter on 22 June 2007:
One thing I always look for in a web host is a user forum. Just because there’s phone & e-mail support doesn’t mean you’re not going to get stock answers. A user forum adds another form of support and is a good gauge at how happy the existing customers are.
Comment by Aldian on 23 June 2007:
Welcome back Peter,
Use forum definitely a great barometer. Thank you for pointing that out.