So, you have decided to host your site and let the world know you’re here. Perhaps, the world already knew you were here and you’re just moving away from free hosting like Blogspot or WordPress.com, Joomla, Drupal or scores of free hosts like Googiehost, 000webhost and services like that.

With Blogspot and other platforms, you run the risk of them shutting you down without a moment’s notice. With free hosts you fall under ones that have ridiculously bad uptimes and generally non-responsive support.

In both cases you pay in frustration and time lost. It’s the safest move if you’ve decided to choose for a premium option.

But even when you’re paying you need to steer clear of scamsters and low-quality options.

Cost

You don’t want to break the bank when when paying for hosting. And most websites don’t rake up breaking-bank worthy traffic.

When getting started shared hosting is ideal. I have a Bluehost coupon and a Hostgator coupon to get you started.

Those coupons I mentioned are ideal to get you started at the lowest possible cost. In time say over a year or so when you build traffic and get customers that money you’re paying would be a drop in the bucket.







Speed

Page load time is a factor in rankings at least for the search engine behemoth Google. The better your page speed loads times are the higher is your chance to zoom past competitors considering all things equal. Meaning you need backlinks and content and better load speed.

Most hosts do provide quality uptimes but lack in this respect. They don’t load sites well at all. From my experience only a few hosts live up to their claims one’s Bluehost, another’s Inmotion.

Uptime

Never go for any host that has lower than 90% time. You don’t want to miss out on commissions and cause needless anger among customers. Ideally 99.9 % uptime is the norm.

What factors do you usually consider when choosing hosts? Do let us know.