unlimited web hostingChoosing your business web hosting company can seem like a daunting task, and indeed, if you choose poorly (like I have done in the past), your life can be miserable, and your customers will have a poor experience with you - and leave. for good.

So what do you need to look for in a web hosting service company? Here are some of the most important factors you should consider:

  • Availability - look into their history, talk with them, make sure they have backup data centers (not just backup servers). Remember, if your site isn’t available, it isn’t making any money for you!
  • Performance - nothing gets visitors to your site to leave faster than a site that is slow. And let’s face it, we now have very short attention spans and virtually no patience. If it’s slow, they go. Check them out. Check out their competition.
  • Support - this is a huge one. I had a “cheap web hosting company” who shall remain nameless… Let’s just say I found them through a big name guru and I assumed it would be OK. Let me count the ways that it wasn’t, and they made my life miserable in ways I hadn’t even dreamed of. And worst of all, absolutely no ability to connect with a human. Never. No matter how bad things got. And the worse things got, the less they responded. Don’t get caught in a trap like this. Make sure your business web hosting company has support people you can talk to.
  • Pricing - it’s easy to get caught in picking the lowest cost, and then realizing that other costs are going to pile up as you expand or start adding lots more domains or whatever. Think about where you’re going with your business and ensure that you can expand your web hosting with your business. Best is the ability to add unlimited web domains, but you don’t find that often. You can find good quality cheap web hosting if you do your homework.
  • Features - depending on what you’re doing, there are any number of features that you may need to support your business. If you are not knowledgeable in this area, make sure you talk with your web designers/developers to get the features you need. I found myself in a situation once where I needed a feature and my web hosting service didn’t provide it. (can you tell I’ve learned through the school of hard knocks? :-)
  • Resources and help - check to see if they have documentation, videos, etc., to get you going, especially if you are non-technical.

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