Web Hosting – Know the Strength of Your Service Provider

Now, when I read a post about “Say no to HostGator” from a very legendary Internet Marketing blog, some thoughts come to my mind which I want to share here.

The tale starts with the blogger buys a dedicated hosting solution from HostGator and finds it cannot provide the level of service he has expected. He is very frustrated after negotiation and finally canceled the order.

So, what we should learn from this case? I reckon understanding what kinds of hosting category you need is not enough when building a buy of hosting solution for your site, you should also get to know the strength of the service provider and should not trust them only because of their reputation in the diligence.

As we know, HostGator is a sweet excellent company. The reason to say it is because of the fantastic job it has done in shared and reseller web hosting market sector. For me, it’s very rarely to hear it is excellent for its dedicated solution. From my viewpoint, this is a weakness area of it really.

This is not the only case happened when I heard about the complaints to some very excellent companies from my friends. The case like hosting an e-business site in Nation Plot from GoDaddy will not make significance even the bandwidth and disk space there is excellent enough. An nation plot is an “nation plot”, besides knowing the strength of the service provider, we will also need to understanding what the package is designed for.

So, below are something I want to summarize about what should you reckon about when choosing a hosting solutions?

Understanding your hosting needs, such as disk space, bandwidth, platform, db, etc. Besides those basic features, you will also need to know the category of sites you will make. There are many things you can not find from the description of hosting package, such as the connection speed, server resource restriction, and more. All those will be reflected in the price of it, and are very valuable to your sites. Don’t host an e-business site in a personal hosting solution, you will find the connection speed will be very slow and have to give up later.
Knowing the strength of the service provider. Go to shared hosting vendor for shared hosting solution, and host your enterprise web attention in the dedicated environment.
Paying attention to the purpose of each solution. Even for the shared web hosting service provider, they will make the different solution for personal site or small business sites with different price.

Hopefully, all above will help you purchasing a right solution for your web site.

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