Web Design Tips
Tip #2 - Choosing a Hosting Provider
Choosing a hosting provider is one of the most important steps you will take while planning your website.
For most people, the main criteria for choosing a hosting provider is cost. Sure, there are hosting providers that are providing hosting for under $60/yr. But, keep in mind, when it comes to web hosting, you do get what you pay for.
Here are some reasons why you should NOT choose the cheapest hosting provider:
- The economy hosting providers load up their servers with thousands of web hosting accounts. If you are running a PHP based or E-Commerce site your performance will really suffer.
- Poor web hosting performance will affect your search engine rankings. If your site is down in the middle of the night you might not notice it, but the search engines will and won't be able to properly crawl your site. Furthermore, if you site is sluggish the search engine spiders will not waste their time crawling your site often.
- Customer Support- Customer support is everything when it comes to hosting. If your site is down you are losing money. You need great customer support so you can get these issues resolved quickly.
If you're looking for inexpensive high performance hosting you can't go wrong by choosing Host Gator Web Hosting. They host our reseller and dedicated servers and we have no complaints about the performance or the service.
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