Finding Good Hosting Services
Many people in this internet-era are having great difficulty
finding hosting services for there internet business that are
both cheap and reliable. They have questions like: How to choose
one? How do I know one is good?
It is not as easy task finding the right hosting, but there are
some general guides on what a good service is like. For example:
* General professionalism on their website
* Help is available within 30 minutes 24/7
* Their Team Size? Remember, bigger might not be better.
* Also, you must remember that cheaper is not necessarily better
either, as there is a lot of scamming going on hosting business
and competition is very fierce.
Someone offering unlimited bandwidth, a huge hard drive quota or
something similar which has a clear cost for the provider, is
more likely offering you an unstable, or even a scam service.
Look for those who tell you that they allocate resources, so
that they never oversell even if their all customers would be
using everything offered to them. These kind of providers are
more likely to be very high quality, thus usually the price is a
little bit higher, but you can expect more from them in terms of
support, stability & performance. And not to mention REAL
value-for-money.
The 3 most important factors you must look for in a hosting
service, if your website is to succeed, are: Stability, Support
response time & how they respond, and the performance of the
service.
Performance is tertiary. Why, you ask? Because stability is the
most important factor. You don't want to be loosing business
because your site is not available most of the time, do you?
Support comes second because crashes do happen, problems DO
occur, and response time of support team is VERY important here.
And, you may value such things as one-man companies, because
you know that they are very likely to be able to provide 24/7
help and support, and will also offer a higher quality service,
because they can put more time into their customers. They value
all their customers because they know who is paying, and who
deserves what they are paying for, instead of some half-baked
scam service that is wasting both the customers time and money.
Think about how good it would be if he or she support
technician even gave you their personal phone number for you to
contact them if problems occur, and never charge a dime for
using it! Talk about service! This will both reduce your
down-time, and any business losses incurred because of this. In
fact, artichost.net provides 24/7 LIVE support for all its
customers, and will surely be in the running this year to win
awards for Best-Service or the like!!