Critical Factors to Consider
Explore the critical factors to evaluate before choosing a web hosting service. Understand how website size, hosting types, reliability, bandwidth, security, and pricing influence the best hosting choice for your site. This lesson helps you make informed decisions for your web deployment needs.
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In the previous lesson, we defined the different types of web hosting services available today. But how do we decide which approach best fits our website?
Furthermore, even if we’ve decided the type of hosting we need, we have to find a reliable service among hundreds that swarm the web hosting industry?
With that in mind, here are some of the major factors we need to keep in mind when choosing a web hosting service.
The Nature of Our Website
In order to decide a web hosting plan, we need to understand the behavior and the size of our website. Let’s discuss this for all the hosting options we have.
Conventional Hosts
For a small website that does not currently generate a lot of traffic or revenue, a shared hosting service would prove beneficial. It would be cheap and we wouldn’t need to worry about server failures in case of excessive traffic. The only downside is that the server may restrict you from running all the softwares you want.
A large business should always opt for dedicated hosting as it is the most efficient. It will also provide us with the highest storage space. Managed hosting would be ...