During our years of business in guiding people to find a reliable and affordable web hosting solutions, we have seen many hosting mistakes people have made in the true-life. Below are the most common 6:
1. Spend Too Much Time on Looking for the Lowest Price
It’s not your fault to look for the lowest price of the web hosting. But spending couple days on finding the best one is not something wise. To be honest, the web hosting price has already been very low. let’s take small business web hosting as an example, most of them will cost you less than $10 per month. Thinking about the value of your time, instead of spending a lot of time on searching and comparing the price of a web hosting, why not choose one which is affordable for you.
Sometimes, you might be able to find a low price hosting from a reseller. But one thing need to keep in mind is that in most case, resellers cannot provide the same level support as what the original web hosting companies can provide due to all kinds of reason such as technology, privilege, etc
2. Not Clearly Defining Your Requirements
When you choose a web hosting companies, you need to do some homework before making the decision. Many customers just purchase what people recommend without thinking about their own needs.
The fact here is that all web hosting plans have their own target market segment, some might be only appropriate for a family web site, some probably work for small business web site. So, when you do your homework, highly recommend you to go through our very popular articles Determine Web Hosting Needs to figure out your web hosting needs. Choosing a wrong web hosting solution will bring you a difficult experience with your web hosting provider even they are very famous.
3. Forgiving A Host’s Bad Or Limited Website
If the host can’t or won’t take time to craft an informational site of their own, most likely they won’t be too concerned about yours either.
4 . Putting All The Eggs In One Basket
If you manage several sites, it seems like a good idea to have everything in one account. You can simplify your billing and get a better deal. Not always. We know of some webmasters who lost hours or work time because they couldn’t work on anything since all their sites were down. If your site generates income and they are interconnected, having all sites down at once is bad business.
5. Taking Testimonials At Face Value
Not all testimonials are created equal. You need to ask other webmasters, talk to their customers. If they don’t list customer names on their site, ask them if you can contact any of their customers or if they’ll contact you. If the host refuses, beware.
6. Trusting your host to have the latest software
Internet crime is and viruses are more prevalent than ever. New software or the latest versions are meant to plug security holes. A customer had their site hacked twice in 2 months only to find out the host was not up to date with their software. Check with the host before you order what versions they are running and how often they make updates.
Besides the anti-virus software, if your web site need some specific version of programming environment, you will need to check whether your web hosting service provider can provide.
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