How to Choose a Right Web Hosting?

There are many options when you want to choose a web hosting. Choose or not choose a provider, you should think carefully. This article may help you make a decision.

* Some general remarks:

- Determine the key customer your website direct to, the information your website provide. Thereby, you can determine Hosting Provider and where Datacenter is located. If your customers are mostly local people or information are mostly pictures, videos…, you should choose a local provider.

- Find out about qualitative services: List some services of the provider you choose and find out the quality of services through their customers.

- Learn the request of the source code: Depend on the source code you using is PHP or AS… you could select an appropriate server: Windows or Linux.

* Before choosing a web hosting, you should take the time to learn about providers by several ways:

- Go to Google, Bing… and search for provider information.

- Go to homepage of that provider and find out about information, facilities, technology, support, hosting packages...

- Ask people who design your web or who have experiences.

- Learn through review article in forum about hosting, domain.

* While choosing a web hosting, you should not think of choosing a web hosting fits your pocketbook. You need to learn a lot of technical parameters before deciding to buy any hosting package. Such as:

- 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 to have 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.

* Conclusion

The selection of an appropriate service will determine the growth and stability for your website. Choosing a right service will save you a lot of time and money. According to me, you should start from the smallest hosting package, then regularly monitor and gradually upgrade until appropriate.

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