10 Tips to Choosing a Shared Hosting

As we know, there are millions of shared hosting providers that exist in our country, or even tens are also providers for the entire world. This can be confusing prospective buyers to choose from, who and what is the best package for its Internet business.

Here are 10 tips that may be useful for you before you choosed one of them:

Domain Is Important
Not recommended to buy the domain from third party, would be better if you buy a domain directly with a domain registrar, do not buy the domain where you hosted your site. Can you imagine how hard it is to transfer your domain if the hosting declared himself bankrupt or close unexpectedly. I suggest buy a domain name at GoDaddy.com, NameCheap.com or Name.com

Target Your Visitor
It helps you determine the market of your business, locally or internationally? If the market you target only the local market, then there is a good idea to choose a local provider, not outside the country. Because the differences between the two location of your hosting server will be effect on your website acess speed.

Determine the Budget
Take your passion, many people who buy a shared hosting package is based on lust, without estimating the pros and cons. There is a good idea to choose a small package first, which you can upgrade the package if it feels necessary.

Software Support
There is also a good idea you determine what OS would you choose as your shared hosting. Because the OS selection will affect the supporting software that you will get. If you like a cms like wordpress, it is better you use the Linux OS, which will get the support software such as PHP, MySQL, Perl, and others that are useful for software development of your website.

In addition, if you people are not so familiar with the administration of the software, would be better to choose shared hosting which has a control panel, where you manage all the needs associated with the administration of your server, ranging from web applications, databases, dns, email, and other so on.

Lastly, make sure you have a shared hosting provider Autoinstaller, is useful for saving your time in building, updating and maintenance of your website.

Backups
Ask your shared hosting provider, if they provide backup services per day, weekly or monthly? And just in case, you should download it manually to your PC every time you make changes to your website.

Read the TOS / Term of Services
Make sure you read the TOS of shared hosting providers which would you choose, such as what scripts are allowed to be installed, how many emails can be sent within 1 hour, resouce which may be used and so on.

Also make sure you have a shared hosting provider SLA / Service Level Agreement, where you will get compensation if a problem occurs when you are with the website, such as the replacement time that occurs offline.

Be careful with the promise of Marketing words
If there are marketing from a shared hosting service providers who say that the service has unlimited space and bandwidth facilities, this is the promise of nonsense, which we can be sure that the shared hosting service provider is assumed that not all clients will spend their bandwidth and hosting space at their disposal .

Well, that’s all about 10 Tips to Choosing a Shared Hosting that you need to think before buying online shared hosting for your online business that might bring extra changes in your life!!