Web Hosting

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FAQs

What is Web Hosting?

Web Hosting is a type of service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the internet.

How does Web Hosting work?

In order to make websites accessible on the internet, web hosting occurs on special computers called servers.  These servers stores, or host, websites.  When a user types the website address or domain on their internet browser, the computer connects to the server the website is stored in and the server will then deliver the webpage to the user through their browser.

Why choose a Web Hosting provider?

Servers and the storage space to house the servers are costly and makes it difficult for individuals or organizations to own one.  The solution for this is to turn to a Web Hosting provider that not only helps you own a website but also maintain the servers your website is on.  Here are the top Web Hosting providers that SyncroReviews have identified.

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Considerations for selecting a Web Hosting provider:

1. User Experience / Load Time

It is important to think about where the server is located because it will have an impact on the visitors’ experience when they visit your website.  You will need to look at who your target audiences are for your website.  Are they local or international?

It is best to use a Web Hosting provider located as close to your website’s visitors as possible.  Let’s look at an example where the demographic of your target audience is in Asia, but your Web Hosting provider is in the United States.  Every time a visitor requests to view your website, the request has to travel across the world and back to deliver the webpages.  Due to the long-distance roundtrip time, it may result in longer loading time for your webpage.  This will not attract your visitors as they may not be patient enough to wait for it.  Your site will also be penalized for slower loading speed and may not get the visibility it should.

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Did you know?  How quickly a webpage loads is a key ranking factor!  So, if you are serving an international audience, you might want to have a provider that has servers spread across the country.  This will allow content to be quickly delivered to your audience wherever they may be located.

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2. Support

Websites need regular for it to function properly.  There may be enhancements, bug fixes and security patches.  Sometimes when implementing these upgrades or updates, there might be conflicts with other functions within your website.  If you are unable to fix these conflicts, you will want to contact your Web Hosting provider to assist you.  There may also be times when you need to do something on the web server but do not have the administration access to do so and need the assistance from your Web Hosting provider.

You will soon find out that support becomes critical when your site is very active.  When it malfunctions, your visitors will be highly impacted.  You will then realize that quality support ranks higher than pricing.

3. Up Time

You always want to expect your website to be up and running 24 x 7 and that your webpages are delivered every time someone requests them.

Most Web Hosting providers tell you they provide 99% up-time reliability.  However, your site may intermittently be down and may not be appearing.  Sometimes, you may not even know that it’s down.  This is never acceptable and something you should be aware of.

SyncroReviews tested the up-time for all Web Hosting providers that were considered.  For the top selected Web Hosting providers, you will find the results of our up-time test in the “Pros” section of the comparison table shown above.

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Did you know?  A search engine’s primary goal is to deliver quality content to its user.  If your webpage continues to fail to load, your website URL may get blacklisted and your website may no longer appear in that search engine’s results page.  You may want to implement an alert mechanism, so you can be aware of such incidents.

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4. Price / Features

Before you buy any product, you always want to know what you are getting for the price you are paying.  When picking a Web Hosting provider, you want to look at the features you are getting for the price.  Going back to the comparison table of all the top selected Web Hosting providers that SyncroReviews recommended, the important features you should consider are listed.  These include:

• Amount of space: the amount of space your website uses, which is the total amount of disk space used by all of the individual files/pages added together. The higher the amount of space given by the Web Hosting provider, the better.  If you don’t use up all the space, that’s ok because you will still have it in case it is needed in the future.
• Bandwidth: the total amount of data you can either upload or download. Think of it as data transfers from your Web Hosting server to the computer of your website’s visitor.  If a Web Hosting provider has a bandwidth limit and you exceed the limit, your website could temporarily be shut down.  This is similar to the data usage on your cell phone, where if you exceed your monthly limit then your phone provider may temporarily slow down the data being transferred to your phone or charge you for more data coverage until the next billing cycle.
• Email accounts: the total number of email accounts needed depends on your preference. If you are a small, medium or large business then you may want more than 1 email account.  If you are just an individual, you may only need 1 or none.
• Email storage: this is the amount of space for all the email accounts allowed. If an email account user has a high volume of emails coming in and going out with big files or images attached to the emails, it will take more email storage.  So the higher the storage the better.