4 Things to Remember before Signing with a Hosting Provider
When you run your site on a free Hosting provider like BlogSpot or WordPress for certain period of time and you enjoy your blogging experience, then you can think of moving to a paid service provider to provide your blog with a unique identity of its own. Though there are so many hosting service providers on web, you need to keep certain points in mind before signing with any one of them. Here, I have listed 4 most important points to keep in mind before hosting your site.
#1 – Meets Technical Requirements
It is the first and foremost thing to look at before signing with the service provider. There are many service providers who will try to deviate from the discussion the technical specifications they provide to other specifications and benefits they have in their service. You need to check with the php version, mySQL version and Apache read write module before taking any decision. Please make sure that whatever blogging platform you are going to use, it should support all the contents of your site and help it to run smoothly.
#2 – Proper Support System
The support system a service provider provides plays a very important role in keeping your site functioning properly all the time. There might be times when you are facing some problem in loading your blog or maybe it’s showing some error or bandwidth limit exceeds, that time you need to have a 24*7 support system from your service provider to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Otherwise, your site may remain down for number of days which can have a very adverse effect on the readers of your site.
#3 – Good Reviews about the Provider
If you really want to know about the company providing the hosting, you need to read all the reviews about that from experts before advancing with the payment. Expert reviews can help you a lot in knowing the advantages and disadvantages associated with the service of the provider and thereby helping you to take the right decision. A provider having large number of reviews count with both positive and negative reviews where positive ones are more can be considered. But if one is having more negative comments or have no comments at all, you should move ahead and look for other companies.
#4 – Option to Grow Space and Bandwidth
Last but not the least; you should keep in mind the future prospects in your mind too before signing with a service provider. You should have the option to increase the space and bandwidth for your blog as and when required so that when you start getting good amount of visitors to your site, you can upgrade your plan and make it more accessible to the readers. Moving a site from one hosting space to another is a tedious process. Moreover, you can lose your page rank and blog name too in some cases. It’s always better to know beforehand if you have the option to have unlimited space or bandwidth when you require them.
I hope these steps will definitely be useful to those who are planning to move their blog from free hosting provider to paid hosting provider or even to those who are starting their blog and planning to use any paid service provider for that.
Don’t think that if you paying less and making a great deal with any provider mean you get the best one. Do a good amount of research before taking the final decision.
Helpful Information ..! Can I Host Server My Self..? I asked about this my friend They Don’t know about this ..! Can You Tell ..!
Yes, me too need details on the same. what are the requirements ?.
Hope this helped : http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/hostmyown.html
Of cource YES you can!
There are various services from webhost
just find the best host for yourself, then import your post from old address to your self host.
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This is really helpful for me for my next web Hosting service. And i agree that meet Technical requirement is important but we must know what we needs before that.
Yes, Now i am facing some issues with poor Technical support.
Did your solve a problem already? Bad Hosting is so annoying…
I’m not become a victim yet. But i ever visit site which oftenly error, and the problem is from the hosting.
Bluehost is a good choice. Go Daddy is too. I’m using Go Daddy than bluehost because they are cheaper.
How much is for Go Daddy?
Go daddy is good Hosting, but i’m not use it yet. For price rate, go here ; http://www.godaddy.com/Hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=8971
Bluehost have surely cheap price. It’s $7 for professional web Hosting plan and also there is affiliate program.
Well, if it’s me, i can check easily the host is good or no by seeing it pagerank. Bluehost is PR 7, no doubt.
Ang go daddy’s support is superior, i think.
Their are big name on domain seller, not Hosting. But since their domain service is good so i believe that same is happen on their hosting service also.
Useful things I need to consider when choosing the host provider for my next project.
Proper support, my website Host is one of best Technical support team.
Never heard about awardspace before, will check it by trying it free Hosting plan first. Hey, it’s free.
Interesting post
. Hostgator has a good support system.
Hostgator is big name and used internationally, it’s reffered by a lot of expert on internet marketing guru in my local country. That’s why i’m registered on there.
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Yes I agree. Check out the reviews and your blogging friends what host compnay they are using. It’s better to learn from others mistakes than from your own.
Yes, choose bad Hosting mean bad luck for your site. Wasted time and cost.
There is so many website about hosting review, just visit it.
How I wish bluehost is cheaper. I think bluehost Do not penalize you for having high cpu usage unlike the “best WordPress Hosting provider”.
But don’t just because their are not penalize you, you’re using cpu so high in purpose
. I never face high cpu usage problem 
i think my current host provider is the best in term of support, i just can sms or call which will be reply immediately and problem can be solved almost 5 minute after it.. and for email not more that 5 hour.. really good.
LOL, email replied by 5hour is quite a long time for me, especially when our site is important for the other, of course we can’t relax if there is a problem even for a minute.
! Can I Host Server My Self..? I asked about this my friend They Don’t know about this ..! Can You Tell ..!
Do you mean you have own server? You can do it, but it’s need a complex setup.
For #1 and #2, that’s why i’m prefer to choose local Hosting, so if there is a problem, i can contact them quickly with my local languange so i can understand what is the problem and solution.
But i’m also have account on hostgator.