What do you take into consideration/What do you consider-

[Hitakashi]

1.What do you take into consideration
2. What do you consider as a good web host

1. The Uptime and how much their live support is up

2. If their prices arn't high and they provide with good enough HD, BW, and RAM

What about you?

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

1. I take reviews into consideration, where they are geographically located, how long the average support ticket is answered (or how good their phone support is) and what their guarantees are.

2. I see a good web host as one being stable, which has been around for some time, has numerous hosting awards, doesn't look like it's ran by a kid but a professional company, takes pride in their services, offers Shared/VPS/Dedicated packages, keeps up to date on social networks, has a blog with network announcements and updates, has a good professional website, an insight into the company (history, the team, facilities, etc.) and hosts numerous big websites.

 

[Hitakashi]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

Well you got to start somewhere, like look at hostgator in 02'
http://web.archive.org/web/200210310904 ... index.html
They look like crap, basically nothing and look now it's a huge host. basically had nothing that you would look at haha

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

I don't view Hostgator as a good web host anyway lol. Always had problems with their billing system and their shared hosting speed was terrible.

 

[_20_]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

I don't view Hostgator as a good web host anyway lol. Always had problems with their billing system and their shared hosting speed was terrible.

Web hosting companies that oversell are never good hosts.

 

[Justin M]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

1. I take reviews into consideration, where they are geographically located, how long the average support ticket is answered (or how good their phone support is) and what their guarantees are.

2. I see a good web host as one being stable, which has been around for some time, has numerous hosting awards, doesn't look like it's ran by a kid but a professional company, takes pride in their services, offers Shared/VPS/Dedicated packages, keeps up to date on social networks, has a blog with network announcements and updates, has a good professional website, an insight into the company (history, the team, facilities, etc.) and hosts numerous big websites.

This is pretty accurate for me as well. I did a lot of research before I settled with the host I have now, and it's been about two years so far and I haven't had a single complaint.

Also, ditto to what _h_ said above.

 

[Hitakashi]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

I don't view Hostgator as a good web host anyway lol. Always had problems with their billing system and their shared hosting speed was terrible.

Web hosting companies that oversell are never good hosts.

True true, but all host over sell in some way or another.

I don't view Hostgator as a good web host anyway lol. Always had problems with their billing system and their shared hosting speed was terrible.

Ok true that. well look at all host that are big today, 1and1 (even though they suck), godaddy, namecheap (more domains then hosting though). All host gotta start somewhere at some time

 

[Justin]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

1. I take reviews into consideration, where they are geographically located, how long the average support ticket is answered (or how good their phone support is) and what their guarantees are.

2. I see a good web host as one being stable, which has been around for some time, has numerous hosting awards, doesn't look like it's ran by a kid but a professional company, takes pride in their services, offers Shared/VPS/Dedicated packages, keeps up to date on social networks, has a blog with network announcements and updates, has a good professional website, an insight into the company (history, the team, facilities, etc.) and hosts numerous big websites.

This 🙂

 

[Hitakashi]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

Seems like Traygon summed it up for everyone haha

 

[Rich Edmonds]

Re: What do you take into consideration/What do you consider

I don't view Hostgator as a good web host anyway lol. Always had problems with their billing system and their shared hosting speed was terrible.

Web hosting companies that oversell are never good hosts.

Siteground oversell and I have fantastic speed with them, plus their support is good from my experiences with them. Not every host is bad if they oversell.