{"id":1960,"date":"2012-10-27T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2012-11-22T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T17:58:48","slug":"how-to-choose-a-web-hosting-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-hosting\/how-to-choose-a-web-hosting-company\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Choose a Web Hosting Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/acenet-web-hosting\/\" title=\"How to choose a web hosting company\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1966\" title=\"How to Choose Web Hosting Company for Small Business\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27200%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20200%20200%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27200%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-choose-web-hosting-company-200x200.png\" alt=\"How to Choose Web Hosting Company for Small Business\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Tips for saving time, money and frustration when it comes to choosing a decent web hosting company<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m often asked to recommend a good web hosting company, so I thought I&#8217;d write a post describing exactly what you should look for when choosing a good web host.<\/p>\n<p>First, I think it&#8217;s important to understand exactly how a website &#038; hosting  works <em>(just 30,000 foot view)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s technically very complicated, there are really <strong>three main components that make a website work<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>domain name<\/li>\n<li>website files and data<\/li>\n<li>web host<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Think of it like what it takes to make your cell phone work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You need the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a phone number (i.e. domain name)<\/li>\n<li> a phone (i.e. website files\/db)<\/li>\n<li> phone service (i.e. web host)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Make sense?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I mention there are many crummy web hosts out there, believe me there are&#8230; and I&#8217;ve used just about all of them. From lousy hardware and servers, cr@ppy software, poor customer support to lack of proper backups, bad web hosts are indeed available to take your money and it&#8217;s up to YOU to stay away from them. It is a very important decision you need to make when it comes to hosting your website, so choose a great one when you do.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<h3>Quick note:Don&#8217;t ever try to host your own small business website.<\/h3>\n<p>No matter how many <strong> IT guys tell you that they can do it &#8220;in house&#8221;<\/strong> do a better job, it&#8217;s cheaper, safer or that you&#8217;ll have more control&#8230; <strong> don&#8217;t believe them. They are wrong! <\/strong> These days there is no room for error. There are so many components involved in web hosting (some that many IT folk aren&#8217;t even aware of) It is far better, safer, cost effective for you to leave it to the pros.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more Click here to save time, money and frustration when choosing a decent web hosting company--><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>So here is an abbreviated list of tips for choosing a decent web host:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Choose a host with phenomenal support<\/strong><br \/>\n    I can&#8217;t emphasize enough how important this is. Sh*t happens on the web and you most definitely will need some help from time to time. Make sure to use a web hosting company that takes their customer service very seriously.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Choose a host with the proper web-based tools <\/strong><br \/>\nThese tools will allow you to easily make changes additions and deletions to your hosting account. <strong>We prefer cPanel webhosts <\/strong>. cPanel is a web-based control panel that allows website administrators (or you) to easily make server-side changes to your web properties. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/acenet-web-hosting\/\" title=\"Daveworks recommends using Acenet Web Hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">We prefer one host in particular<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll mention why, below<\/em>.\n <\/li>\n<li><strong>Ensure that your web host maintains nightly backups<\/strong><br \/>\nThis means that every five days to backups will overwrite the oldest files. (and make sure to archive these yourself)  Meaning download your backups and burn them to removable media ( like a DVD) and keep them safe.  How often?  as often as you wouldn&#8217;t like to have to re-do your work in the event of a hard drive failure.<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Don&#8217;t base your web hosting decision entirely on price<\/strong><br \/>\nLike anything else in this world, you&#8217;ll get what you pay for.  You should give yourself a reasonable budget of $12-$15\/month for decent &#8220;shared&#8221; hosting.  If you need &#8220;dedicated&#8221; hosting, then you&#8217;ll be into the $2500 &#8211; $15,000\/year range (price completely depends on resources and management needed.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t choose a company with phone support<\/strong><br \/>\nWHAT??? WHY???  Because you get layers&#8230; layers of non-English speaking,  low-level, time wasting support that will *prevent* good customer service.  You&#8217;ll find that issues that should take mere minutes can take hours on the phone. Take my word for it to be doing yourself a favor&#8230; go for web-based ticketing support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"border:1px solid #4c82c4;padding:3px; text-align:center; background-color:#00ff00;\">Who do we use for web hosting?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/acenet-web-hosting\/\" title=\"How to choose a web hosting company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"\/images\/acenet-web-hosting-logo.png\" alt=\"AceNet | Web hosting for small businesses | Daveworks recommended webhost\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Most definitely <a href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/acenet-web-hosting\/\" title=\"How to choose a web hosting company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Acenet<\/strong><\/a>.  Why?  Because of the aforementioned reasons. As a web development team, we need great resources for our clients (we like sleeping once in a while and knowing that our websites will be well protected and online let&#8217;s us do just that)  We&#8217;ve used to just about every wrong host in the world and finally have found a great web hosting team in Acenet. \u00a0These guys have phenomenal support, terrific servers and uptime, they are reasonably priced and did I mention that they have phenomenal support? :-)  Without fail, over the many years we&#8217;ve been with them, Acenet&#8217;s tech support team have solved most every issue within minutes. (truly) Looking for a new web host? Definitely check them out. <em> You can even have a <a href=\"\/sacramento-california\/wordpress-sacramento-california.php\" title=\"Wordpress website site up in just a few minutes!\">WordPress<\/a> site up in just a few minutes.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is just an example of what Acenet offers:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/acenet-web-hosting\/\" title=\"AceNet | Web hosting for small businesses | Daveworks recommended webhost\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"\/images\/acenet-webhosting-data-center.jpg\" width=\"250\" alt=\"AceNet | Web hosting for small businesses | Daveworks recommended webhost\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>500 GB Disk Space<\/li>\n<li>5,000 GB Bandwidth<\/li>\n<li>Host up to 20 Domains<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited Email Addresses<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited Sub-Domains<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited MySQL Databases<\/li>\n<li>Loaded with Popular Features<\/li>\n<li>24\/7 Technical Support<\/li>\n<li>99.9% Uptime Guarantee<\/li>\n<li>30-Day Money Back Guarantee<\/li>\n<li>Starting at $9.97\/month<\/li>\n<li>Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors<\/li>\n<li>Kingston DDR2-667 ECC FB RAM<\/li>\n<li>3Ware 9650SE Raid-6 Controller<\/li>\n<li>Seagate Barracuda ES Hard Drives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"border:1px solid #4c82c4;padding:3px; text-align:center; background-color:#00ff00;\"><strong>Sound Interesting?  Check out <a href=\"\/acenet-web-hosting\/\" title=\"AceNet | Web hosting for small businesses | Daveworks recommended webhost\" rel=\"nofollow\">AceNet<\/a> right now!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope that helps&#8230;  if you have any additional questions or concerns with web hosting, then hit me below. =)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for saving time, money and frustration when it comes&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-hosting\/how-to-choose-a-web-hosting-company\/\">Continue Reading<span> How to Choose a Web Hosting Company<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[467,466,470,471],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting","tag-choosing-web-host","tag-how-to-choose-a-web-hosting-company","tag-quality-web-host","tag-tips-for-choosing-web-host"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}