Many web hosting companies offer excellent web hosting services along with a variety of features and services. However, without the help of adequate and right information, it is very challenging to select the right web hosting service. Here are some of the most common web hosting mistakes people commit while choosing the appropriate web hosting service provider.
Price Trap: Many web hosting companies offer Free web hosting services at no cost. However in web hosting Industry nothing is free unless and until explicitly committed by the service provider. Also, these web hosting plans have fundamental and insufficient features which are very difficult for hosting a website or an application.
Inexperienced Resellers: Having a hosting service with a Reseller is quite risky. However, you can do extensive research on their backgrounds and the parent web hosting partner along with the services and feature they follow. Hosting the website and application with the Reseller who is inexperienced with the web hosting can cost you losses while managing the scripting, security, and server monitoring and network issues.
No Clarity of the requirements and needs: You should carefully gauge and enlist the need and the requirements for your website and application. This list should be updated as your business grow and thus upgrade as and when required in the future.
Hosting all websites in the same server and with same web hosting service provider: If you are managing several websites, it may seem to be a good idea to have a single account for all the websites and applications. You can use your billing and carrying all operational activities. If your websites generate income and they are all interconnected and thus having some difficulty in the server will put all of them down.
No proper contact information: Many of the customers and client prefers the email responses for their queries and issues with their web hosting service provider. Thus when your web hosting service provider is not functional for the days, then you won’t be able to contact them any other way. Therefore it is important always to have the alternate contact be it phone no, live chat, ticketing tool.
Relying on the backups maintained by the service provider: It is always necessary to maintain your backups even though they are maintained by your web hosting service provider. Many time the website of the customers might go, and they could not put the website to another web hosting provider because they don’t have any backups of their own.
