While we are making our business go digital the most important thing would be business hosting. That includes, emails, database, bandwidth and disk space. When we browse websites that sell hosting, everyone says that we have 99.9% up time, which is not possible.

In this article we would discuss how to chose over the domain name in the world. First of the most important thing is to understand is that company a reseller or has its own setup. For that you can check it’s registering in the domain registrar and identify the name of the company. Now search on Internet about its modes of operations and read through the articles.

 
Then next step would be to know about their “setup” or the location of the servers. Generally USA servers are most reliable one compared to Singapore and India. The speed of bandwidth is also good along with the uptime. Honestly, the best feature of any hosting plan or web hosting companies is their “uptime” as that signifies how strong is their setup and how much they can sustain over longer duration.  To further check the hosting company, its better to take their starter plan for one month and use all of the services like “email exchange”. How fast does the email gets delivered, how does it operates over the mobile phones. How often there are errors while sending or receiving emails etc. All of these tests would help you to take a final call over selecting the hosting company.

 
Now coming to other side of the coin, bandwidth analyses. The best way to identify the bandwidth capacity is to run a demo upload/download from a folder located onto the root folder of your shared server. Usually 1MB file(s) should be uploaded in 1 minute. But if it does take longer than that then you should search for another web hosting companies, as the one you are testing is not worth it.
 

The Web Hosting companies offer various services like shared hosting, dedicated hosting, dedicated ip address, ssl certificates, cloud storage and much more. Moreover in your basic hosting plans there are lots of freebies offered like website builder, domain name registration, basic seo tools etc. So while selecting a trial plan you should see what all is being offered to you.

Generally the good unlimited hosting plans starts from $100 Annually, whereby you can host unlimited websites under unlimited disk space and through unlimited bandwidth. But the cost may also go upto $200 Annually for extremely good hosting companies. Don’t look for extremely cheap hosting companies, which offer you $50 annually plan(s) as they would be capable of running your websites 24 hours in a day.

Most efficient hosting company would be the one that would be backed by 24hours customer support as well. Response time should be quick that should help you to get answer to your hosting issues.  If the company is a reseller of hosting company then the host/parent company provides all of the technical and backend support. So you can basically cross check their email address as in from where you are receiving the emails.

So to summarize our article one should be smart enough to identify the actual owner of the hosting company and then only make the final purchase decision. Do not forget to checkout the trail/baby hosting plans for one month before you deposit all of your money into the hosting account.


Good Luck. Stay tuned for more informational blogs.