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Making A Wise Choice: A Good WordPress Host

Robert Frost’s famously penned — ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both’ often remind us of the dilemmas we face in almost every field. And choosing the right kind of web host is no less of the whole lot of them!

Having a pre-defined criteria and understanding the basic concepts in web hosting can help you make a choice you won’t regret!

Setting Your Own Criteria

For different people, their needs and demands from a web host are bound to vary greatly. A music composer looking to upload his home-produced content will require large bandwidth and disk space, whereas an academician wishing to upload articles and assignments for access to students, might be fine with something comparatively less. Being clear in your head about precisely what will cater to you best is the ultimate goal of this exercise of finding an apt web hosting service provider.

Keep An Eye On These..

Unmatched reliability and a great speed score the highest brownie points when it comes to web hosting. Optimum performance will be delivered when you are assured of 99% uptime. Many contend that it should be higher than that, say 99.5% but that’s just being unrealistic. At the same time, take the word ‘guarantee’ really seriously. It’s meant for to serve solely your interests!

Data transfer ought to be high in your priority list as well. It refers to the number of bytes transferred from your site to those visiting it. Many web hosts advertise ‘unlimited’ bandwidth/traffic but be wary. There is limit to the unlimited, and once you cross there, you’re likely to be asked to upgrade your plan. Much has been written about what extent bandwidth is truly ‘unlimited’. Dig up for more details, read review sites or call customer support to get satisfactory answers.

Disk space can be promoted in the garb of ‘unlimited’ as well. There are sites that will help you externally calculate your space consumption, thereby keeping a tab on what the host sites say. Sceptics view the concept of unlimited disk space suspiciously and often seen it as a means by which hosting companies entice people to host with them.

Plan-wise Wise!

Companies nowadays offer multiple plans and packages, along with some fabulous discounts and coupon codes. For those who are budgeted they can always stick to affordable plans that provide quality hosting services. As for those who can afford, the sky’s the limit — Shared or Dedicated or a massive Cloud infrastructure. A perfect, affordable web hosting plan is difficult to find, simply because it is a myth. However, a good web host is relatively easy find. Don’t hesitate to try out a new web host only because you’re comfortable with one and so you’re just sticking out there. A change in web host is a great idea if you’re getting even the slightest hint that it isn’t working out with the current.

Treading Cautiously

Caution has never harmed anyone. Be careful not to fall into traps, advertising gimmicks or enticed by numbers! The web hosting architecture can take a while for you to figure out, particularly so if you’re rather new to it. But with time, comes understanding of how it all works — the rest is upto your choices, research and decision-making!