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How to Choose a Web Hosting Provider(5 Tips) and Profit More
How to choose a web hosting provider?
That suits your requirements and profit more (generates revenue) from your blog or business website that you want to start.
Let us see the 5 tips (the 5 S’s) that help you to find a web hosting provider that suits you best.
Whether you are new blogger or an experienced blogger or a business website holder these 5 factors (the 5 S’s) can benefit in choosing a best web hosting provider.
If you are planning to start a blog or business you can head over here to read on how to start a blog in 6 easy steps or watch a short video here.
1. Support
This is the most important factor in choosing your web hosting provider.
Especially for beginners
Without proper Support from hosting providers and Maintenance you cannot host your website aptly and you might lose time in the process of finding out how to(s)?
So how to choose a web hosting provider?
You have to look for a web hosting provider that provide below support services.
- Chat
- Phone
- Social Media,
- Guides
- Tutorials
- Video tutorials etc.
2. Stability
Stability or availability or accessibility or up-time is also one of the most important factors in choosing the web hosting provider.
Because, stability of the site is correlated to the income that is generated
For example, Amazon in 2018 lost sales worth $99,166,667 within 63 minutes of down time (Colocrossing)
Instability can be caused by hardware breakdown, Internet crash, malware attack, human error
So how to choose a web hosting provider?
- A web hosting provider that has up-time at least from 99.98%
3. Security
Security of the website as well as security of the visitors to your website is important factor too in choosing your web hosting provider
Depending on the type of business (website or blog) you are hosting. Example, online shop (eCommerce) or any kind of private high sensitive informational services (Banking services) security can be top most priority.
So how to choose a web hosting provider?
Depending on the type of blog or website you have to look for a web hosting provider that provides the following protection features
- Domain Name Privacy
- SSL Security Certificate
- Virus Protection
- CDN/DDoS Protection
- Firewalls Protection
- Malware Scanning
- Software security
- Backup-Restore etc..
Moreover, for an eCommerce website/blog security, one has to obtain PCI DDS compliance for Credit card acceptance.
4. Speed
For your website/blog success, Speed is one of the crucial factor in defining conversions and Google SO rankings.
Amazon, one-second page delay could lead to $1.6 billion fewer sales per year.
Google, a one-second delay results in 8 million fewer searches per day.
For smaller sites a four seconds load time can lose 25% of potential visitors.
Data Source: DZone
So how to choose a web hosting provider?
For faster loading or speed you have to look for in a web hosting provider are
- Use of SSDs (Solid State Drives) instead of HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) that are faster
- Higher RAM
- More Bandwidth
- CDNs (Content Delivery Network)
- Advanced Cache plugins
- Type of web and DB servers used
- Database maintenance
- Type of hosting plans (Shared, VPS, Dedicated) etc..
5. Scalability
As your business grows, as the traffic grows, as user services grows and your requirements change.
Keeping in mind the future growth now, choosing a capable web provider that is scalable is necessary for your business or blog.
Scalability is all about handling growth efficiently. Most providers provide pay-as-you go model where you pay only for the resource(s) you use.
So how to choose a web hosting provider?
One who has
- Diversity of hosting plans offered
- Flexibility of adding resources such as storage CPU, RAM and bandwidth as per the demand peaks (Example, eCommerce sites seasonal peaks)
Takeaway Tip
These 5 web hosting shopping tips (the 5 S’s) increase your revenue
And at the same time are very important in deciding with which web hosting you want to partner with according to your business and blog.
These 5 S’s are not in any particular order (rank) but all are important factors.
Depending on the type of business/blog you are hosting the order of these 5 factors (the 5 S’s) might change.
Example, an eCommerce site priority might be security and speed as the most important choice in choosing a web hosting provider.
If you are planning to start a blog or business you can head over here on how to start a blog in 6 easy steps.
You can also watch a short video here on how to start a blog.