Best Web Hosting Guide: 7 Things to Consider Before You Buy

You have decided to launch your web or blog or maybe you are someone with a physical business that wants to start having Internet presence. But there is a question that you can not answer:



What hosting? Which is best for me?


In fact, you may not even know what a hosting is or what types of hosting you might need. If that is your first concern, I will only tell you that "the space your website will need on the Internet". Making a very flat comparison would be as if I told you that hosting is the plot on which you will create your house online. But, unfortunately, buying hosting can be more difficult than building a home.



Or it can be very easy too. If you know what to take into account before buying!



And that is what I will teach you in this article. I will tell you the 7 aspects that you should check before you "sign up" your hosting contract and how to choose the ideal hosting for your blog.

1. How many domains will you need?

There are different types of hosting and plans in all hosting companies, but the most basic plan of all usually have something in common: only allows to have a domain by hosting.



If in your case you are only going to buy a web hosting and do not need more, no problem. It will pay you with any plan and you will not have to look at this aspect at all.

2. How many visits do you expect to receive?

If your web is going to have 1,000 visits a month and your content is static, I doubt you need an advanced hosting and will be worth with the most basic type of hosting of all. That yes, even if this is your case, forget the free hosting because it gives many problems.



When it comes to buying hosting you should think about your needs before buying anything. If you live alone, would you buy a house with 5 rooms? Surely not.



Well if you have a small web with few visits, do not get yourself an advanced hosting! With the basics you will be worth.

3. What limitations does your hosting have?

There are 2 aspects that you should watch when buying: disk space and monthly transfer.



The first would be the space you occupy with your own web, images, entries, pages, etc., while the second would be the amount of web traffic that your hosting plan can support.

4. How easy to use is hosting?

Does your hosting provider provide you with a super-simple control panel that could understand even your 5-year-old nephew? Or does it have a panel that looks written in Chinese and you do not understand a word?



Check it out before buying hosting. If that provider does not allow you to test your plan for at least 7 days, you can not trust them. In those days try out how easy it is to install WordPress, change DNS and do basic things with your domain.

5. Is it fast or slow?

It may seem silly that your hosting loads in 1.5 seconds or that you load in 3 when you're sitting on your PC. But if that happens on a cell phone, I'll tell you what happens in those additional 1.5 seconds of charge: your visit goes where it came without opening your website!



Imagine that someone searches your city for "restaurant on behalf of your city" and yours is the first on Google. He clicks on it and, as the page loads slowly, he closes it and opens the one for another restaurant, where he ends up having dinner.



To prevent this from happening to you, check how other pages that are hosted in that hosting load before you buy it.

6. Does the support respond in a short time?

This 6th point may be the most important of all. Why?



Because your hosting, whatever it is and you pay what you pay, will end up failing sometime or cause some failure in it sooner or later. And there, unless you're a programmer or system administrator, you'll need to pull support.



In your 7-14 day test, ask a question and analyze how long it takes to respond. Or, if you know someone who is housed inside, ask him to do it for you.

7. Is it scalable in the long run?

As I said before, you can start your project with 500-1,000 visits a day. It's the normal thing and we all start like this, in fact you may even stay there forever (and that does not mean it's wrong!).



But what if you duplicate your visits? What if you start getting more and more traffic? At that time, it may be time to upgrade your hosting capacity and move on to another plan.



Does your accommodation have a superior plan available to you? Is its price acceptable and makes sense? Ask yourself these two questions before buying anything hosting if you think your visits are going to increase.