With so many different hosting companies out there it’s difficult to know what to look for and who to sign up with. My favorite webhost costs less than 10 bucks a month, which to me is tremendous value and worth every cent. Let’s look at 3 critical factors everyone should consider before choosing a webhost.
1) Cost – You want value without compromising on quality of the hosting that is being offered.
2) Uptime – You need a service that is going to be reliable. It’s no good going with the cheapest hosting company if there are frequent outages. As your business grows this can cost you a lot of money so a high percentage in terms of uptime (99.9% or more ) is essential ).
3) Support – If you have any problems or need to ask a question, you need to know that the standard of support is top notch.
Any other considerations. Well for shared hosting two others I would add to that list would also be:
1) AWSTATS installed by default. Amazingly some hosts don’t have this installed and it makes checking your stats more of a pain that it needs to be. AWSTATS is easy to use so I recommend you choose a host that has it. You can always install Google Analytics on individual sites as well as this.
2) ADDON DOMAINS – They should be unlimited and should not cost you any extra. Some hosting companies charge you for blocks of addon domains which I personally think is pretty outrageous given that my favorite company doesn’t.
You can get shared hosting with the company I recommend for as little as $7.95 a month here -> Recommended Webhosting
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