5 tips to get the perfect web hosting for your website
It’s normal to have questions like “What are the best web hosting services” or “What is the fastest between them?” You will often wonder, “How to know the perfect web hosting for my website?” and what factors should I focus on during my selection?
For developers, bloggers, entrepreneurs, and most websites owners, searching for the best web hosting service and the most appropriate choice is a big issue for them.
In fact, there are dozens of factors that you should focus on while choosing your site’s web hosting and the importance of each may vary based on your web site’s requirements, traffic, used software, databases, etc. But today we’ll give you 5 tips on the most important factors you should focus on to get the best web hosting to grow your website.
1. Focus on renewal cost not only the cost of first time purchase
Many web hosting companies provide offers starting from $ 0.99 per month when you sign up for the first time only, but if you focus just a little, you’ll find that the renewal cost will be doubly high. This trick may affect your decision and prompt you to rush to complete your purchase. Do not be fooled by the very low prices you will find when purchasing a first-time hosting, instead focus on the renewal cost.
2. Make sure your web hosting resources are appropriate to your website’s needs
Some web hosting companies separate hosting plans by limiting only known resources such as: (space, bandwidth, number of databases and emails) and do not specify the most important resources such as: (processor/CPU, RAM, I/O, etc.)
The failure to limit the resources of the hosting plan accurately leads to many problems, including the possibility of consuming all the resources of the entire server from only one website, which affects your website too if it’s hosted on the same server. Therefore, every website should be completely separated from the other on shared hosting servers by accurately limitation software. This is made easy by the most famous systems, Cloud Linux.
Typically, the consumption of known resources such as space and bandwidth is not a big deal. There are no websites that can consume 1 TB or bandwidth of at least 200 terabytes (at least a shared hosting one) without requiring a VPS or even Dedicated server. Most of companies are now providing web hosting plans with unlimited resources (unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited databases, unlimited email), and only limit the most important resources (such as RAM, CPU, I/O, etc.) To separate between the plans, so as to ensure that no website on the server infringes on the rights of the other site, where each website works separately without consuming any resources more than it’s limits.
3. Do not look at the price without looking at other features
Most of the clients (Especially Arabs) go to the less expensive hosting providers without looking at the hosting features and benefits carefully and whether they fit the requirements of their websites or not, that’s why most of the clients face problems with web hosting companies.
You can always get the best web hosting for your website by searching what is suitable for your business and website needs. For example, you may find a web hosting company that offers an unlimited space but that’s not all what your website needs. You may need need unlimited Bandwidth and high data security, and the space may should be based on SSDs. So you should look at the features carefully and choose what suits your needs and requirements first before you look at the price. Anyway, do not worry, you will find that companies offering high quality web hosting services have prices close to the other ones and there is not a huge difference between them.
4. Test the team’s presence to see how fast their response is
You’ll find that most of web hosting companies offer 24 hours technical support. But will you receive a response to your message or technical support ticket within a few minutes? This feature is difficult to find in most web hosting companies.
What if you have questions you would like to ask before buying? Or are you already a client and have technical questions about your hosting? Definitely you won’t wait for 24 hours until you receive a response or even few hours!
You should test the response speed yourself and send a test message to see when you will receive a response and be able to assess the company at the speed of response and presence.
5. There is nothing more important than securing and backing up your data
What if your website crashes because of deleting a file by mistake? Or has been hacked and its data was stolen? Or even there was a problem with the hard drive of the hosting server? All of these problems occur in any web hosting company in the world. No doubt you will need a backup copy of your website to restore files or database.
Most Arab Web hosting companies offer backups, especially since foreign web hosting companies do not offer them and if they do, it won’t be a free feature. Mostly, the usual copying system copies your website daily, weekly, and monthly, but this alone is not enough. What if there was a problem with the server’s hard disks that led to the deletion or loss of backups too? Will you lose your website forever? Here comes the role of external backup, where the website is copied externally on servers located in a different data center for further security, so make sure that the internal and “external” backup feature is available for your website before purchasing a web hosting plan.