How to choose your web hosting provider
Having recently transferred the hosting of my sites, I thought that a small note on the choice of its host could be useful.
Local or international business?
The question is difficult. On the one hand, we want to encourage local businesses and on the other hand, to obtain the lowest price for its web hosting. The pool of Quebec hosts being small, their prices are often slightly higher than our neighbors to the south.
Identify your needs and options to find in your package
Before you even start shopping, it’s a good idea to target your real needs in order to take stock of the multitude of web hosting companies.
Here are some ideas:
How many sites do you have?
Do you have to buy a new domain name?
Will you be hosting customer sites?
Do you have a plan to open an online store soon, or do you already have one?
Realistically estimate the traffic of your site or your websites.
Is service in French important to you?
What is your level of web knowledge and do you think you need fast and comprehensive support?
What type of site do you want to host?
Understand the different types of server
There are three types of server that can host your website. I’ll cover them very superficially, but leave you some reading at the end of the article, if you want to learn more.
Shared server
You can compare it to a big hotel that houses several hundred clients. By paying for your package on a shared server, you get your hotel room, that is, a small portion at all.
This type of server is perfect for small sites and small businesses that do not have special knowledge of web hosting, and want an easy and simple solution.
VPS (Virtual private server, or shared server)
A VPS is a server having the characteristics of a dedicated server (explained below), but which is in fact installed on a machine feeding several websites. Each VPS will have its own operating system. So think of a block of apartments, in which a tenant owns the surface area of his dwelling, but will have to share some common areas, such as a staircase or a parking lot.
This type of server is ideal for larger websites that need speed and a higher level of security; performance is increased on this type of server.
Dedicated server
Finally, the dedicated server is not shared with any other client or website. Perfect for very large sites with a high volume of visits per day / month, or for someone wishing to host several sites, for clients for example.
Some tips
Target four to six hosts and carefully consult their package page as well as the inclusions and exclusions of each.
Consult the knowledge base and the support made available for each of the companies. A knowledge base consisting of only a few topics and ten answers is probably not sufficient if your own notions are limited.
Test the customer support of each company by asking questions, while paying attention to response time and the quality and user-friendliness of the service provided.
Take a tour on the social networks of each host to take the pulse of their business philosophy. This is not a guarantee of absolute truth, but it is still reassuring to see that real humans are behind the computer screen.
Finally, a company that shows empathy and that has respect for its employees at heart by dedicating a section to this effect on their site is, in my opinion, a company that deserves to have me as a customer!
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