Few webmasters ever realize the importance of these 3 factors when choosing a web hosting service to host their websites.
Instead, they got blinded by the low price smoke screen that in most cases, renders them a service that gives them chronic migraine, every now and then.
Don’t commit the mistake they made. If you want your website to turn into a booming online business, you must swim out to get a web host that comes with these 3 money factors.
Speed
When you get on a site that loads like tortoise, you’ll definitely get pissed off and off you go – you’ll jump over to another site that loads faster. Right?
Similarly, if your site loads slowly and you put your website visitors waiting, you’ll lose them faster than you blink your eyes. Hence, you need a web host that will host your website on a high-speed server.
World stats shows about 1% of the entire online population still use 56k (or lower) dial-up network – equivalent to about 16 million web surfers world-wide.
Although you can’t get them all to turn to more expensive broadband network, if on your part you can use a high-speed server, you’ll greatly reduce your website loading time on their computers, astonish them with a higher speed they never get to experience with other sites before.
As such, don’t compromise this factor when you choose / buy web hosting service. High speed will help you capture more online visitors, just so you can sell them what they want.
Bandwidth
In the context of web hosting, bandwidth defines the amount of traffic allowed to visit a website.
For example, if the web host provides you with a 100MB bandwidth per month, in order for each visitor to view a 20KB web page from your site, you can generate a maximum of 5000 visitors (or hits) per month.
If you drive more than 5000 visitors in that month, your site will get suspended for that month until the next reset takes place on the following month.
For example, by March 25 your site already used up 100MB, then your site will get suspended for the remaining 6 days in March. Once April 1 starts, your provider will reset the bandwidth of 100MB and you can then start to drive another max 5000 visitors again. Get it?!
As a new website owner, you may not hit the bandwidth limit so easily. But what about few months later when your online business begins to get off the ground and the number of your website visitors start to blow up like balloon? 100MB per month would no longer suffice.
You would need a greater bandwidth then. 10GB… 100GB… why not go for unlimited instead?
Unlimited (or unmetered) bandwidth means you can drive as many traffic as you wish. And more visitors hovering around your website gives you more chances to convert more sales.
So, go for it – choose unlimited bandwidth.
Uptime
Website uptime simply means the time during which your website remains up and running on the web.
Ideally, you would want your website uptime to stay 100% because the longer your website remains ‘live’ on the web, the more money you’ll make.
Unfortunately, your website may sometimes get shut down due to network or server failure, thus it becomes impossible to keep your website up and running all the time.
So, when you come across web hosts claiming they can offer you 99.999% or even 100% uptime guarantee, beware! They actually refer to network uptime guarantee only, NOT server uptime guarantee.
Network uptime guarantee means if their hosting network (including Local Area Network and Wide Area Network) goes down that in turns causes your website to go offline, then they’ll refund you or compensate you with credits on your account.
But if your website goes down due to a failure with their server that hosts your website, you don’t receive any credit or refund from them. Let me cite an example.
A network carries hundreds, if not thousands of servers and other peripherals.
Let’s say your website server goes down, but because the whole network carries thousand other servers, so one server failure doesn’t really impact the entire network operation. That means, so long as the network keeps running without fail, you don’t receive any compensation.
Network uptime guarantee which, to say it bluntly, is actually nothing short of a marketing smoke screen.
A network won’t go down so easily unless an explosion takes place and blow up the entire network due to terrorist attack. Or an earthquake damaging an underground network cable. Whatever.
That means, 100% network uptime guarantee… basically any web host can promise that.
So, watch out for those who promise 99.999% or even 100% uptime. 99.7 – 99.9% are credible uptime. Best to go with is 99.9% which refers to both network and server uptime.
That means, even if your website gets shut down due to a server issue, you’ll receive compensation according to their percent uptime guarantee.
Bear in mind, the higher the uptime for your website, the more money you can make.
Author: Soon Chai Lim
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
Provided by: Beading Necklace
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