Making a choice of ISP to host your website
Choosing a quality ISP (Internet Service Provider) is an essential aspect
of deploying a website. It is essential because it can ensure that the visitors
of your website have a fulfilling buying experience and do not leave the website
because of encountering “Page Cannot Be Displayed” errors. There can be many
reasons for this error but most of the times it’s because
the server on which the site is hosted is not able to cater to multiple
requests for pages of the website at the same point in time. Many times it
happens that, to cut down on cost, people opt for hosting their website on FREE
servers, from the point of view that cutting down costs is good decision,
but the darker side is that all the effort you have done in developing
your website and bringing it on a good position in search engine results goes
for a toss. If people are not able to access your website due to error messages
instead of page being displayed then the site is of no use. A free hosting
provider will not provide you with backup and even will not ensure maximum
up-time because it is not providing paid services and will be least bothered
about how critical your website is for your business. Thus I never suggest
going for FREE hosting because of the costs to your business. The question
might come that if no free hosting provider, and cost is a factor,
plus always running website is requirement, then with all these conditions
how can one make a choice for reliable service provider for hosting the website?
Well there are many ISPs providing web hosting services, and nature of the
website being deployed and how much you expect your website to add to your
business will define the hosting provider you should chose. To generalize
, the following could be factors that can be considered while choosing a web
host for your website: -
- How long the ISP has been in this business and how many websites are
hosted on their server.
- Percentage of uptime your ISP is ensuring.
- Does ISP provide customer support, if yes is it free or they charge a fee for it.
- What polices the provider has to take care of emergency issues, like the site
going down at odd hours of the day.
- Do they offer features to upgrade the hosting, if yes can they do it without
making the site go down.
- What is configuration of the server on which the site will be hosted.
- How much bandwidth the ISP will provide for your website
- What Scripting Languages and Database support is offered by the web host
and do they match with the language you have opted for developing your website.
- What are the additional software packages the ISP is offering with hosting
- What do others say about the services of the ISP – Testimonials.
Thus if you are planning to deploy a website for your business then you have to be very conscious while choosing the web host. I do not recommend going for free web hosts in case you plan to deploy a website for your business, yes it can be a good choice if you are deploying a personal website and it does not have to do anything with your business. Maneet Puri having an extensive experience of web based applications has assisted him to implement various knowledge driven process for his clients, and at the same time he provides consultancy to his clients for their website maintenance. With this expertise he has successfully added KPO and website maintenance as verticals to the Web Development company he is heading.
article source: adzines.com
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