Affordable Web Hosting - Know Your Buying Criteria Before You Choose

Choosing the right web hosting service for your new or existing website is very important, and can lead to a smooth and hassle free experience, or cause you major grief, and cost you money for months to come, depending on how well you make the decision.

This article will look at three of the important 'buying criteria' you should carefully consider before you take the plunge with any web hosting service.

What is a 'buying criteria' you might ask?

Simply this: The important criteria you should consider that will affect the purchase you make and the degree to which you are satisfied with the results and outcome.

Here are three important buying criteria:

Affordable Web Hosting buying criteria #1:

Is the disk storage space and bandwidth sufficient for your needs?

If you are just starting out with a fairly small website, then this most likely won't be a problem these days. Disk space simply refers to the capacity of available disk space you will have to use. Bandwidth refers to the amount of traffic your server will be able to handle before it slows down or crashes! Again, unless you are anticipating masses of traffic, you will mostly be fine with a standard specification.

Affordable Web Hosting buying criteria #2:

What is the service like?

Service is CRITICAL when it comes to web hosting. You may like to think that you will have no problems, but trust me, this is very unlikely! It's almost certain you will need to use the service facility, so you want to make sure you it suits your needs now, before you buy.

We recommend that you find a service with either phone contact or online chat contact, as well as the usual email. And make sure it's 24/7!

Affordable Web Hosting buying criteria #3:

%"Up-time". This simply refers to an estimate of how much time the hosting is guaranteed to be up. To be honest, I don't know if there's much you can do about it if you find that in reality, it's less than the company claims, except move to another hosting provider, but at least you want to go with a company that is aiming for 99.9% up-time.

There are more important criteria you should check out before you buy. Visit my blog at the link below to view 8 affordable web hosting buying criteria that will help you make the best decision.