You want to buy web hosting service, right? Web host of your website plays a key role in your success online, you pay them for this by the way. So, a web host either can kill your website or make you successful. Due to a large number of alternatives, the selection of a suitable web hosting service become challenge even for an expert.
As there is a tough competition between web hosting providers, they heavily use affiliate marketing to attract more and more sellers. Lots of bloggers and affiliate marketers take advantages of this opportunity to make money. Even they know some products is not suitable for their audience, but money in money pal.
How To Select A Best Web hosting Service.
Before I will give you a detail check list of selecting a suitable service, let me explain how you can also make your own criteria. First of all make a clear goal to be achieved through web hosting. Then I find out what are your exact requirements. After that list few web hosting providers with their alternatives. Finally select a better company as your web host based on your requirements and budget.
1. Define Goal To Know Exact Requirement.
You know you need a web hosting service, but a defined goal helps you to find out your exact requirement. Once you know your requirement, you can see which type of hosting service you need. After knowing type, you will be able to find who are providing such services.
Although you might have a goal, but now elaborate it to know things you will need to achieve this including web hosting. For example, If I want to start a business website with a blog, I will need:
- A webhost for my Website.
- A web hosting service to host blog.
- A dedicated team to Manage it, etc.
I want to use WordPress for both website and blog. So, I will choose a web host that can provide better WordPress hosting service. Moreover, I am making website and blog for business, it will be updated regularly so that soon after few moths I am guessing at least 50k Hits. I don’t have enough time to mesh with technical issues, so I will start with a Managed WordPress hosting.
So, make a plan as I did in last paragraph, I have skipped other points, but you should make same plan for every requirements also. Now, I have decided to use managed WordPress hosting service, I will make a list of such service providers in next step.
2. List And Compare Web Hosting Alternatives.
List top web hosts and compare theme according to your requirements and budget. Make your own list for comparison. There may be many in your list, but try to make it shorter. If you don’t want to kill hours for comparison, please keep reading to select your final web host.
Whatever would be the length of your webhosting providers list. I think all of them have almost same features and they will be making similar promises. Unlimited resources, one click install, 99.99% uptime, award wining customer support and blah blah. Uptime and Resources wise, anyone is OK for shared hosting. But, there are only few important aspect to see:
1. User Friendly
2. Customer support.
3. Its under your budget.
Making a long list to compare them will take hours, but you should do to avoid any hosting problem in future. Last night I had compared almost 20 web hosts to find out one to recommend my readers. But, it is very difficult to say, which one is the best web hosting service.
So, I break service into three major type and the result is in front of you. Go ahead and find out which type of web hosting service is suitable for you and your business.
Shared Hosting: Good to Start.
A better place to get start first time. Cheaper and enough space to grow from zero to medium level. I always recommend shared hosting for newbie blogger, small store and geek who want to try webhsoting service.
There are thousands of shared hosting provider out there, I think all of them are technically almost same. The only differences are customer support and ease of using. Selecting a shared hosting services in not big deal, until and unless company provides an excellent customer support.
So, I have listed here some hand picked shared hosting services. You can choose randomly any suitable one that is suitable for your budget.
BlueHost: Well known shared hosting provider in WordPress community. Easy to use c-panel, not ideal but very better up-time, decent customer support and affordable price. You can start your first blog/website here. I had used Blueost shared hosting for two years. It’s capable to handle small and medium blog very well.
Starting Price: $3.95 Visit Official Website
AsmallOrange: Made for CMS hosting along with WordPress. Cheaper option to start with managed hosting environment. Fantastic customer support, better uptime and faster than BlueHost. Many people prefer its shared hosting due to AsmallOrange provides SSD on affordable price.
Starting Price: $35 per year i.e $3 per month. Visit Official Website
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teGround: An excellent Web hosting provider to host your first website with. It also provides SSD based shared hosting service, which make it faster than any other shared hosting services. Moreover, it’s kind of managed WordPress hosting which is great place to start and grow your blog to the next level.
Starting Price: $3.96 per month. Visit Official Website
VPS and Dedicated Hosting: For Tech Savvy.
VPS and Dedicated Hosting service is better for larger and business website. Technically its not easy to use, either you have to learn or hire developer to make it worthy. By the way, its price and feature depends on size of server you need. VPS and Dedicated are always better than Shared Hosting, so these are expensive too.
Like shared hosting services, so many companies provide such services. Some time its difficult to choose one. Fortunately, there are some providers who have better interface and customer services to make it easy to use. Shared hosting providers listed above also provide VPS and dedicated hosting services. As I know AsmallOrange is better one among all of three above in the list.
Cloudways is a great place to buy such service, it has pricing option from $5 per month to any size of server. Basically, cloudways is a platform, where you can choose customized cloud services from amazon web service or digitalocean or Google cloud.
Managed WordPress Hosting: Pricey but Headache free.
Managed WordPress hosting is completely different from all other type of hosting services. It’s made for all around better performance of WordPress. Usually loading speed, security, Reliability and Uptime are issue with WordPress website. You have to be tech savvy to manage everything to work fine.
Fortunately there is a great service WordPress Managed Hosting, that solve those issue automatically for you. Technically this service is developed to make your website run smoothly. The only problem with such services is, its price that is always higher.
But, if you care about time you spend to manage your website or money that you pay to developer to manage it. I am sure, that will be always higher than the price of WordPress managed hosting. Because you could make more money during the time that you spend to save just few bucks and you know the charge of a general developer.
Handpicked Managed WordPress Hosting Services.
Pressidium:
Its new but a better option on affordable price. Pressidium provides Pinnacle Platform Enterprise Architecture, which is more secure and air tight system. Although, its not ideal web hosting, but a best option to host your website to protect against threats, shield from attacks, and tune for speed.
Starter Plan: $24.90/m | 3 WordPress Installs, 30K visits/mo, 10GB SSD space and 100 GB CDN included.
Wpengine:
Most popular managed wordpress hosting. Popularly known for speed, security and hack proof. It’s price is higher than any other such services. Moreover, people usually complain about over billing, i.e after quota sometime charge is higher than normal plan.
But if you don’t mind few extra bucks for great performance of your website. You should prefer this if you have a large or business website, otherwise Pressidium is better option to go.
Starter Plan: $29/m | 3 WordPress Install, 10GB Space.
3. Finally Select Your Web Host.
Now I am pretty much sure you can select which one is better option for you. Decide a final selection of web host for project. After all this is not your primary goal, so do this right away and go ahead to make your website more better. Use a better design, optimize it for SEO and write your first 100 blog. Lastly don’t forget to hi in comment bellow.
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