Sometimes you can get hosting services that offer a free domain as long as you pay for a yearly hosting account. With so many features available, a free domain with your hosting is a great offer and can save you up to 10 pounds per year.
If you are thinking about starting a new website for the first time then you will be overwhelmed with the amount of discounts on offer and this may confuse you to what sets each company apart from each other. Some are over priced, many over sell their services, some are high quality some are poor so its a case of taking a chance on a company that can offer you all the features you will ever need.
With the web hosting market been so over saturated, companies will seem to offer you the world but in fact will lack on specific features or provide support that is no good to you as a trading company. When support is required, you expect the company to respond within hours not days as well as resolving any issues in the quickest time possible.
You cannot count on website hosting review websites as these are websites owned by affiliates of the services they promote. Every time you sign up to a site through one of these sites, the website owner will get around 70 pounds for each customer. The website hosting service that is rated number one, will more than likely be the one that pays out more per customer than the others so the webmaster will personally decide on whats best for him/her and their commissions.
There are some really good comparison websites out there, if you manage to find one that also allows users of that service to post comments of their experience with that specific company. This is a great way to see what host is doing its job and the ones that are lacking in certain areas of the website hosting service.
Price is also a big issue, you don't want to spend too much but if you don't spend enough then you may miss out on the advanced features that you may need in the future, although you can switch hosts at anytime, it can be very complicated to export a running website, you will experience downtime issues and your visitors will have to view an error page for sometime unless you have a good web host that will do this for you.
In my experience, the smaller companies are the ones to join, why is this? this is because its a dog eat dog world and the smaller companies sometimes don't get a look in and you will get a better service from the smaller ones as they have to try harder to impress you more than the most popular hosts. You can get more features and a faster server on a smaller host as the shared servers on huge hosts may be over crowded causing server issues.
The most popular hosting companies and domain providers are not always the best as the companies are advanced, and where there is more technology, there is more issues. The smaller hosts have fantastic features, sometimes even more than most high end companies and offer one on one marketing support.
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