Finding the best web hosting plan for your website can often be challenging. This tends to happen since web hosting is perceived as a one size fits all service. In fact, every web hosting plan has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. By learning how to evaluate factors such as speed, reliability and storage capacity, picking the best web hosting plan for your needs should be possible in no time at all.
 
Reliability is Essential
 
Reliability is so essential for a website for a variety of reasons. Although every web host is likely to have some down time at one time or another for reasons such as maintenance or general technical issues, such down-time should be minimal.
 
According to Huffington Post, “If your site goes down, your potential customers will not be able to view your blog posts or learn about your products and services. Even worse, if you host an online store, you will lose out on potential sales and income. Amazon recently had a 40 minute outage which cost them about $5 million dollars. Your loss might not be as big, but it’s still a loss of revenue.”
 
Reliability is also a factor that contributes to search engine optimization. Search engines will routinely visit your website with both robots and a human viewer to determine how highly ranked the website should be. If your website is not on line during these routine checks, the loss in traffic over the long run could be particularly substantial.
 
Review Customer Service Quality
 
The quality and availability of customer service can make a huge difference, especially when you have pertinent questions. Avoid providers which do not offer around the clock customer service or that have a long call waiting time. Do a test run before purchasing services from a web host to assess the quality of their customer service.