What features do you look for?

[Jerlene]

What do you look at when you are ready to buy hosting, or move to a new host?

I look at everything but FTP and phpMyAdmin are very important to me.

 

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• Cost
• Hardware and the system
• Up-time and results
• Not own by EIG
• Good reviews and feedback
• Very important (even it does cost more) support
• Fast response time, no delays
• Cpanel...
• Location of the data centre

 

[Jerlene]

I don't need it so I never consider customer support when looking for a host. It is handy for newer webmasters though, or people who aren't familiar with certain things. I used to make sure who I went with had cPanel but that's not necessary anymore. It's super convenient but definitely not a deciding factour. Also, reviews are subjective so I try not to let them hold too much weight with me. But the hardware used is important. Totally forgot to mention that.

 

[Azareal]

I just look for a reliable VPS. Most things can be set up by me.

I can download the latest build of a forum software, Go, MySQL, etc. onto the server with just a few commands each. If not for wanting to go full paranoid, I could probably run everything as root to avoiding a few extra commands and a bit more configuration (e.g. configuring the systemd unit file) there.