Stability of the website, its smooth operation and fast loading are provided by a good hosting. Many beginning site builders use a free hosting for placement of the first websites, but time when functions and opportunities of such hosting begin not to be enough comes. At such moments sharply there is a question of how to select the hosting corresponding to the price and quality.
Instruction
1. Authoritative independent forums at which the quality of the services provided by hosting companies is discussed will help to select a hosting. There responses not only happy webmasters, but also the offended clients contain. Usually through forums it is possible to learn how any given hosting service answers questions of clients what level of technical support, whether there are problems with transfer of the website or payment. At once strike off the list of hostings for the choice those services which offer an unlimited number of the connected domains and/or huge volume of disk space at low price.
2. The hosting should be clear. Management on the website of a hosting should be intuitive, should raise nothing questions. Pay attention to design, payment methods, responses on the specialized websites, clients of the company.
3. Define how many the place it will be required to you for CMS and materials: photo, video, different files. If you do the blog on WordPress, the distribution kit will occupy no more than 40 MB, for files there will be enough 200-300 MB. The news portal requires loadings of video and podcasts – you need not less than 1-2 GB of the space for the website. If you do the video portal, perhaps, you in general need the server, but not a hosting.
4. If you are going to do not one website, look how many quotas are offered by a rate. Some rates limit the creator of the website to 2-3 websites on the account, others offer attachment of 100 and more websites. If you need to make a forum and to attach it to the website, pay attention to a possibility of creation of subdomains.
5. An important indicator is uptime and response time (ping) of a hosting and also availability of the IP addresses. It affects availability of the website in the different cities and the speed of loading of pages.
6. After registration of the trial period check the control panel (administrator panel). It should suit you. If something does not arrange, it is better to leave a hosting at once