A good web hosting service is the first step to creating a great web project and nowadays there are thousands of companies offering hosting services. So which one should consider for your projects? Here are some tips to selecting a good web hosting company:

  1. Customer support
    Any good web hosting company has a great customer support. This means they care about you and are committed to resolving whatever your issue is.
    Some companies only care about selling, once they sell their product you end up going from phone line to phone line in order to fix a simple issue such as a basic help on how to set up your FTP client.
  2. Unlimited traffic
    First and foremost, there is no such thing as unlimited traffic. Every hosting company pays web traffic to their suppliers.
    Unlimited traffic is part of a brilliant marketing strategy to attract customers and it works perfectly. I can guaranty you that once your traffic hits a significant amount of traffic your hosting company will contact your warning your that you must acquire a dedicated server thus increasing your hosting expenses.

    When a web hosting company is offering unlimited traffic be sure to read the fine print on terms of service. Legally the company is forced to display exactly the limitations of their service.

    Just to clarify Unlimited traffic means that the web hosting company services have a very large amount of traffic and for smaller clients they can offer “unlimited traffic” since those clients will never achieve the limit.

  3. Server Uptime
    A web server uptime is the time a web server is up and running without any breaks.

    It’s show as a percentage and no company can promise 100% uptime, even if, durring your contract, they end up delivering a 100% uptime performance.
    The larger the percentage of the uptime the less problems that server has and therefore is a good place to consider your web hosting.

  4. Services included in the web hosting package
    Consider what services the hosting package offers and if they are ideal for you. Email services, database, what kind of hosting it is, etc.

These are some of the things I take in consideration when looking for webhosting. Hope they can help.

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