According to me choosing a Web Host is one of the most difficult task one has to face while establishing his/her first website. The main reason why this is so difficult is because there are so many scam hosting companies around the world wide web. Moving from one host to another is also quite difficult in case your site is big in size. So to avoid this hassle in the future choose a quality host in the very first step. Paying few dollar more will protect you from being exploited by these scam hosts.
I am giving some steps here which will help you to choose a quality host:
- First of all go to who.is and type in the domain of your selected web host and press search button. There you will get all sort of info about your selected web hosts domain like age and their registered address with telephone numbers.
- Please confirm it properly that the who is of your selected web host should not be protected as that it will raise the alarm that they are just spammers and avoid them at all costs. Now give them a call at the telephone number in order to verify the that their number is working or not. In case it’s not working than my suggestion would be to leave them and find another host.
- Web Hosting sites having Live Chat facility should be preferred more than those which don’t support this facility.
- Now this is a very important point. In order to get a quality web host you must register on this site webhostingtalk.com.In this particular forum, owners of various web hosting companies represent themselves. Now in order to see how good is your selected web host, search that company in webhostingtalk.com and read some of their reviews from their previous customers.
- Now this point is not that important but it will certainly help you. Please make sure that your selected web host is a premium or corporate member at webhostingtalk.com. If they are not than i will suggest to leave that company.
I will always suggest you to go with a web host which have following software’s installed in their servers
- Cloud Linux: Will increase the stability and helps in the isolation of different accounts on a shared hosting.
- Lite Speed Web Server: This is basically 10 times faster than Apache
- PHP
- MY SQL
This article is written by Vinay Rana for UB7.NET