Here’s a brief list of things to look out for when choosing your web hosting provider
- Make sure they provide you with enough bandwidth, data transfer and disk space. If they are offering more than most, then find out why – its an obvious thing to suggest, but check the small print.
- Double check that the features they are offering are right for you – Do they support PHP? cPanel? Email forwarders? Databases? and more.
- What kind of guarantees do they offer? If they’re offering 99.9% guaranteed uptime, then you can be fairly confident that their servers really will be functional and online 99.9% of the time, otherwise you can ask for your money back and they won’t make their money!
- Make sure you’re choosing the right hosting plan, whether its shared hosting, reseller hosting, a dedicated server or simply free hosting.
- Finally, don’t be pressurized into getting something you don’t need. If they’re offering a bigger, better server for more money ask yourself – do you really need this?
