You have two choices when you want to choose a hosting: Free Host or Commercial Host. Each host has its own advantages and disadvantages that you should consider carefully before having a decision.
- Free Hosting:
Free hosting is suitable for beginners or people who unable to pay web fees.
It has some advantages:
- Free. You have not to pay fee for provider.
- The features are quite adequate.
But it also has some disadvantages:
- Limitations about speed, disk space, bandwidth.
- Advertising, pop-up from provider…
- High risk.
- No support.
There are some reputable providers:
000webhost: Space: 1.5 GB; Bandwidth: 100 GB; Features: no advertising, support FTP, MySQL.
Byethost.com: Space: 5.5 GB; Bandwidth: 200 GB; Features: support FTP, no MySQL
- Commercial Hosting:
Commercial hosting is suitable for people who have website experiences or want to develop website more professional.
* Advantages:
- Full of features.
- Stable quality.
- Activity and regularly support.
* Disadvantages:
- Expensive cost: web hosting and domain.
* Choosing web hosting package – Something need to know:
- Disk space: You should not select the hosting package have just enough disk space to upload capacities. Your hosting needs space to run other applications such as mail, database, temporary files...
- Bandwidth: You can calculate the bandwidth based on the following formula: the average download of a person x the number of website visitors every day x 30
- Find out about the number of addons domain, the number of database of that host packet. If the addons domain and database allow having multiple, you can host multiple websites in one account.
- Find out if hosting package’s parameters are suitable for the source code you want to use.
* Some reputable providers: Godaddy.com, Bluehost.com, Hostgator.com, iPage.com, Fatcow.com….
According to the bloggers' experiences, we should buy hosting and domain from 2 different suppliers to avoid risks when one component goes wrong.
In summary, if you are a beginner, you should try blogging with free hosting services. If you have experiences and want to develop more, please purchase a commercial hosting package.
Wish you success!
Tags: Best web hosting sites
No comments:
Post a Comment