I wrote a new article this weekend that describes the most important features to consider when choosing a web host. Too often, I’ve seen clients that have been drawn into a cheap web host provider, only to find out that the network performance is horrible. Needless to say, poor network performance results in lost sales revenue, frustrated customers, and the stress of switching web hosts. To prevent my clients from making a poor choice when choosing a web host, I wrote this article.
One of the major resources noted in this article is Netcraft’s website. Netcraft provides a great web host comparison chart for free that is updated monthly. Netcraft compares response time (network performance) and uptime (network reliability) when it ranks the top web hosting providers. Finally, these results are tallied into a top 10 and top 50 web host table. This makes it trivially easy for anyone to compare web host providers. Simply put, there is no better resource available for comparing different Internet websites or web host uptime, and network performance, than Netcraft.
Hopefully, this article will help out a client or website visitor in their choice for a web host. Nobody likes a slow web hosting provider, and if you think slow website performance is bad- try SSHing into a slow web host sometime!
Here is the article:
http://linuxconsultant.info/tutorials/choosing-a-web-host.html
