Once you have selected a domain name for your blog or business website, the next step is to choose a suitable web hosting to host your blog or website.
It is always quite confusing which hosting to choose as there are a lot of hosting providers in the market.
And every hosting provider claims to be better than the other ones.
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If you are also confused about which hosting to choose for your next blog or business website, then spend some time reading this article and reputable reviews about hosting providers.
By the end, I will clear all your confusion related to web hosting, and you will have a decent idea of which one to choose for yourself.
How To Select Suitable Web Hosting for your Blog?
Here are some facts related to web hosting, which you should go through to choose appropriate hosting for your blog or business website.
- At first, look what your requirements are
- Make sure the web hosting has excellent uptime and is reliable
- Make sure they have upgrading and downgrading options
- Look if they provide additional features such as Addon Domains, SSL, Email, Subdomains.
- Be clear about the sign-up and renewal prices. (Most of the hosting providers offer cheap hosting at sign-up and has high charges on renewal.)
- What are the methods of access like Cpanel Admin, PHPMyAdmin options
- Read the TOS(Terms of Services) properly; it can save you from a lot of hassles.
- Compare with the significant hosting providers in services and rates.
- Look for the server locations; some hosting providers have multiple server locations.
- Look for additional features like Softwares provided, Auto Backup, Support options, etc.
Check Your Requirements
The most important and first thing to do is look at your requirements whenever you plan to purchase web hosting.
I would recommend you to make a complete list of your requirements before you start your survey.
You can make a list of questions, as given below.
They will help you understand your hosting requirements for your blog or website, which are given below.
What is your targeted audience?
Your web hosting requirements can be high or low, depending upon your targeted audience.
Your audience may be from your Facebook page, youtube viewers, or any other sources.
You need to consider whether you need shared hosting, dedicated, or VPS server depending on your audience load.
Your web hosting needs to be reliable and should be able to provide you enough bandwidth and disk space with the flexibility of upgradation with the increasing need.
Confirm the Hosting Reliability and Uptime Guarantee
When the topic is web hosting, nothing below 99% can be accepted.
You need to confirm and research thoroughly about the uptime and reliability of the web hosting provider before you are going to select.
We at Everest Themes use SiteGround managed WordPress hosting. Siteground provides a 99.9% uptime guarantee with its every web hosting plan.
Every shared hosting of Siteground comes with managed WordPress features and provides the best uptime and reliability.
Which Plan to Select as a Beginner?
Shared Web Hosting is the most popular plan these days because of its uptime scores, reliability, and multi-domain hosting feature.
One of the significant reasons Shared Hosting is so popular is its pricing.
You can have a shared hosting as cheap as 1 USD per month. Shared hosting can easily handle monthly traffic from 10000 to 25000 depending upon the plan you purchase.
If you are planning to launch your first website, we recommend you to start with shared hosting.
You can upgrade your hosting plan as per your need and have a Virtual private server, Cloud Hosting, or Dedicated server as your requirement increases.
Pro Tips – Check Out these Hosting Providers Godaddy, Namecheap, BlueHost, DreamHost.
What are the additional features included?
Look at the additional features which come with a hosting web package.
Most of the hosting company provides a free domain, free SSL certificates, unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth with their single hosting plans.
Do check out the list of features offered by the hosting provider before you purchase a web hosting plan for yourself.
Check to Sign up and Renewal Price difference.
Never hurry while purchasing a web hosting plan. Most of the web hosting providers will provide your web hosting plan at the dirt-cheap price for the first time giving you numerous lucrative offers.
Always check their terms and conditions while purchasing a web hosting plan at a lower price.
The most important thing to look at is the renewal price difference between the sign-up and renewal price.
Many hosting companies out there will give you numerous discounts when you buy their hosting for the first time and charge a bomb during renewal.
Hence, have a look at the renewal price before you purchase a web hosting plan.
Website Builder Support
Most of the web hosting company provides different tools to help you build a professional and fully functional website without much hassle.
A right web hosting provider will provide you multiple website builders to help you kickstart your website developed with their website builder tool.
Cpanel Access and Features
A Web Hosting control panel can provide you many services (some are listed below).
Also, they give you options to maintain and install different functionality on your website.
It can be CPanel, VDeck, or any third-party Control Panel. The important thing is it should have the flexibility to provide these features.
- File Manager
- Database Manager
- SSL Installer
- Virus Scanner
- Email facility
- Metrics Visibility
- Cron Jobs
- User Manager
- Site Publisher
- Backup Manager and Creator
Custom Email Address
If you want to host custom email accounts together with your website, then you need to look at the email feature before purchasing the web hosting.
Many web hosting companies provide the custom email option (something like [email protected]).
It’s always better to check and be confirmed about it than regretting later on.
Even if your web host does not provide the email feature, it is no big deal. There are many ways you can have an email address at your domain.
You can use Gsuite or Zoho mail services. Zoho provides you free services up to 10 emails.
Subscription Period
There is no surprise if see web hosting providers their customers great deals and offers to take up unreasonably long contracts.
Almost every web hosting company gives you a great deal when you purchase web hosting for a longer duration.
Subscription is essential, and it must be your choice to choose the subscription period.
Pro Tip: Discounts and offers are great. But never purchase an extended subscription just looking at the deals and offers unless they provide explicit anytime money-back guarantees.
Site Automatic and Manual Backup
There are times when a site crashes because of some code or theme errors.
Also, a hacker got into your WordPress blog and replaced your index.php file.
Or it was you who messed up something, and the entire website got crashed and is not loading, or the server had a severe hard disk failure.
If your web host provider provides regular backups, then there is nothing to worry about such incidents.
You can fully restore your website/blog with the backup from your web hosting provider.
On backups, here are a few key questions to ask your web host:
- Can site backup be done quickly via the control panel?
- Can you create auto backup your site easily via a cron job or other program?
- Does your web host provide full backups regularly?
- Can you restore your backup files by yourself quickly (so you don’t have to wait for the support staff to do it for you during disaster time)?
Pro Tip: Some web Host providers do the regular backup at meager cost while some web hosting provider charges for it. So, you need to check How the backup process goes in your case?
Live chat Support and call Support Facilities.
Let’s say you need to know about a specific feature of the web hosting and how are you going to contact your web hosting provider.
Hence, always look at the way to reach your web hosting provider in case of any issues or queries you need to ask.
We at Everest Themes provide our customers with Live Chat and Email Support to ask their queries and solve their issues.
Almost every web hosting provider is offering Live Chat support, Email support, and Phone Call support.
So please make sure your web host provider must have a useful review in providing support.
Wrapping Up
These are some features we recommend our customers to look at before purchasing a web hosting plan for their new website.
If you have any further queries and questions related to web hosting, we suggest you read these useful articles on WordPress hosting. Also, you can let us know via the comment box or contact section. We will try our best to help you with your queries.