Choosing a Web Hosting Provider from 40 million other Web Hosts - Pt1

Discover how to go about choosing a web hosting provider in ways that 99.5% of opinion on the Internet never mention.

If you struggle with finding good web hosting then using the process I describe could answer one of the biggest problems you may see as a webmaster.

But first I want an idea of ​​the magnitude of the problem in choosing a good web hosting provider. A search on Google for the exact phrase "web hosting" provides more than 32 million results and "web hosting provider" or "web hosting company" produces about 800,000 results.

An IP survey in 2003 found http://www.netcraft.com over 40 million web hosts.

Whether you want 32 million Google web hosts or Netcraft's 40 million, it gives an indication of just how many web hosting provider have to choose to believe.

Google has more than 7,800 sites advice on "How to choose a web host."

But to be honest a lot of advice on the Internet sites that promote web hosting company's and resellers, which means that it is not without bias.

If you think "web hosting review sites" are a good source of advice, try choosing one of the more than 6,000 listed by Google. Consider also that many are connected to the web hosts they recommend. This may mean that not only they get a sign-up committee, but a regular monthly fee for as long as a customer remains the web host.

Much of the advice on choosing a web hosting provider talk about how much disk space or bandwidth you need, what type of server, or using the features you should look.

It's important stuff, but it does not help in choosing a good web hosting provider.

I say this because of disk space and bandwidth are today largely a non-issue, because most web hosting providers compete with each other so much to offer, you need to have a website on the size of CNN's use it all.

As for the possibilities of web hosts, there is often little to choose between them, they generally offer enough of the basics for most websites. If you are looking for comprehensive functions, such as a website builder, adding a shopping cart, making secure payments or promote your website, these extra features might influence your choice.

But if a web hosting provider, you still do not know whether they do well.

At this point some of you may think that you have read the other customer testimonials, or some of the website forums to see what other people have experienced with this host, or post a question to go for advice.

Well again a word of caution, many forums are the hangouts for the people selling web hosting, so they regularly post answers or advice which, like the ordinary Joe. This means that advice can be biased toward or against a particular web hosting provider. A forum you could try that is dedicated to issues with web hosting Web Hosting Talk

Oh! Let's not forget "Testimonials." When was the last time you saw a customer testimonial on the website of vendors who said anything bad about the service or product they provide? I've only ever seen one once in the last 5 years and not for a web hosting provider.

I have websites hosted with dozens of web hosting provider 's and made 100's of research on other web hosting companies that I never even got close to the point of signing with you. I've moved some sites two or three times in less than two weeks because a web hosting provider is able or willing to problems, or that the server configuration is not able to script my site need support to solve.

It was after many years of suffering bad web hosts, I finally decided to work on a process that gave me a better chance of finding a good web hosting provider.

It's a bit like taking an insurance, you do not know what the insurance company is like until you need to submit a claim. As a matter of interest I have an exact search for insurance against bad web hosting and there were no results.

Of course, no one seeking insurance against bad web hosting, which must mean that it is too much of a risk.

I do not even consider my services for something special or more than any other typical business web site require. But despite all my experience, finding a good web hosting provider is still one of the most difficult challenges website.

Find the exact step by step process in the second part of this article at: http://www.webpageaddons.com Choosing a Web Hosting Provider from 40 million other Web Hosts - Pt2

Process is obviously no full-proof and does not mean that the web hosting is available via the search engine and filtering techniques I suggest are the only web hosts are able to provide the services you need.

You should not assume because you Google Advanced Search was for web hosting provider 's with selected features that the sites you are reviewing to ensure that characteristics.

Check each site on your short list, as the search engine are far from perfect.

What it means is that by using my suggested techniques, you are selecting those web hosts who think things like support, important enough for them to be found for them on Google. Other web hosts may have good support, but the difference is that in your search that you do not find them listed for this term.

It could mean support is not that important to them, even though they meet them.

It is also worth noting that the price of web hosting is not an indicator for quality of service. Some low cost web hosting provider 's a much better service than some medium-cost ones.

Conclusions

Using a six stage I was able to choose from 40 million web hosting provider 's a short list of 15 web hosts that met my criteria. A further six stages I could the number of possible web hosting provider 's down to a choice of 2 reduction.

In the final phase of the web hosting provider 's are both asked a number of general and technical questions that resulted in the final choice. Although the process is not full-proof, I have devised a better way of choosing a good web hosting provider to find.

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