Choosing a web host may be very challenging for those who wanted to create a website without any clue in website hosting. Even though we are already familiar with the internet and all, there are so many things that you have to consider before you can even launch a website. One of those things and the most important is the web host. A web host is the one that will dictate what you can load in your website and how many users can visit your site simultaneously, etc. It will provide you with the controls and scripts that you need for your site.
When you contact a web hosting company, expect that they will ask you lots and lots of questions. If you’re not really that techie, you’ll just find yourself confused and might end up with tools that you can’t use. So here are the things that you should remember when talking to your preferred web hosting company:
Operating Systems - As important is your operating system to your computer; so is the operating system in your web host. However, in contrast to our very popular OS provided by Microsoft, the OS that’s popular and widely used for web hosting is the Linux web server. Linux web server could run almost any web language compared to Microsoft server which is only concentrated on ASP pages. Besides, Linux web server is known to be more scalable and have better security.
Control Panel - Don’t settle for anything that’s not cPanel. This program is very user friendly and widely popular. In fact, most control panels are cPanels. cPanels will give you all the stats and controls that you need: number of visitors, servers status, backup, and e-mail accounts if you have one.
Server - This is really the tricky part. There are so many types of hosting to choose from. You could either go with shared server, reseller server, virtual dedicated server, dedicated server and colocation. Shared and reseller servers are good for those who wanted to create a website just for the fun of it. If you’re expecting thousands of visitors daily with bandwidth or cpu intensive applications, select the virtual dedicated, dedicated and colocation servers. These types of servers could handle multiple accesses by the thousands. In the case of virtual dedicated servers, you’ll be sharing the server other users but you’ll be provided with virtual root access, and guaranteed with a bandwidth even though how busy the other part of the server is.
Technical Support - This is also important since servers at most times are unreliable if no one will take care to maintain these things. Aside from being available 24 hours, the response time should be fast. As much as possible ask for Service Level Agreement (SLA). This is a documentation that guarantees response to your problems and how many hours a month your site is guaranteed to online.
Server Location - Check where most of the visitors to your website would come from. The closer they are to a server, the better. If you’re server is on the other part of the planet, be sure that the physical server is actually located in a data center and not in just someone else’s basement.
Don’t be intimidated when they ask you these questions. They just wanted to make sure that they get the information they want. If you’re informed in advance, not only is the transaction fast, you’ll also get what you need.
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