Picking a hosting service for your website seems like a minor decision, but in actuality, it’s one of the most important decisions you could make. It’s worthwhile making sure you’ve done it right.
There are 3 main areas you want to measure while comparing web-hosting services:
- Cost
- Reliability
- Quality
In this post:
Cost
I’m sure there’s no one more invested into the budgeting of your project than you. Plan to succeed, balance quality and reliability with the cost and assess whether or not the service is worth the money. It is possible to swap your domain to another hosting service later, but that’s more money and man power; So get it done right the first time!
Reliability
Would you expect a grocery store to close mid-day on a Tuesday? If your answers no, I bet that’s because it makes no sense for a business to do so. Your website acts as a store front for your business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Which means your customers are expecting a certain level of reliability. Keep downtime to a low by selecting a reliable web hosting service.
Quality
Something we can all agree on, is that slow loading pages are the worst. And although there are a number of variables that could contribute to a slow website, unrelated to your web-hosting service, it’s essential to ensure the service you choose is known for quality. By doing so nothing is holding back your website’s potential speed.
Top Web-hosting Services
For a list of top Web Hosting Service picks I refer to a few from PCMags 2024 Webhosting Review:
Looking back to the 3 main attributes earlier (Cost, Reliability & Quality), you’re going to want to do some research of your own. Investigating a web hosting service that’s going to be right for you is based upon your budget- how much do you want to be spending to keep your domains up and running?
You need your website to be reliable, all the services listed above are well rounded picks, but do some digging of your own to make sure the service is right for you.
Lastly, your pick needs to provide quality service- how well do they handle their support? Do you feel confident enough with their service to set your own domains up with them?
Keeping everything in mind as well as your own research, you now have a great foundation on web hosting services. You should have the confidence now to go ahead and pick the right service for your website.
