When choosing a "house" for a site or an Internet project, it is important to remember a few simple recommendations so that later it will not be "excruciatingly painful" for the lost time and money. Our tips will help you build a clear algorithm for choosing a paid hosting for hosting a site based on various paid and free management systems.
Tip one. Carefully choose a company
There are hundreds of hosting providers in RuNet only for every taste and budget. In all the variety you can get confused and confused. Therefore, it is important to remember that you can only trust your project to a trusted market player.
The first page of search results for “hosting” will give the desired result, and there it will already be possible to move on to the nuances of choosing from 10-15 companies. In no case do not “get fooled” by advertising and promises of “superhhosting” for 10 rubles a month from unknown companies, which are full of various advertisements. Among them there may be scammers!
A company from the top of search results also needs to be checked. It is unlikely that some one-day trip will get there, but as the saying goes "trust, but verify." First of all, the company should have a long history (we check the domain for the who is service). It is also important that she has a free multi-channel number, preferably around-the-clock support, according to which you can clarify all the nuances of choosing a tariff plan that interest you. At a minimum, there should be an online consultant answering questions promptly. For example, at Rusonyx we strive to solve user issues in the first few hours from the moment of contact. In simple scenarios, we are talking about minutes.
Is it worth talking about such "trifles" that any self-respecting hosting company should have its own website !? It is also important to understand where the servers of the hosting company are located, and where the potential audience of your site is located. If your site is for residents of Russia, then it does not make much sense to order a "foreign" hosting. If you want to "conquer" the "bourgeois", then perhaps it makes sense to look at foreign hosting companies. Only in this case it is important to adequately assess your ability to interact with the foreign hosting support service in English or another language.
Tip two. We determine the technical characteristics of your Internet project
At this stage, you should clearly understand what traffic your site will have, for how many requests it is “tailored”. Is there a personal page with the number of visits from 10 per day or a global online store with a thousand visitors per day? Depending on this, we choose virtual hosting, a virtual dedicated server, a dedicated server or cloud hosting.
We will not go into details of each type. All these types of hosting are different in their willingness to receive visitors to your site. Shared hosting is prepared for the minimum “influx” of guests, and cloud hosting, respectively, for the maximum.
Also, the choice of hosting type depends on the characteristics of your CMS-system. More specifically, you can choose the option on specialized forums dedicated to your content management system (Wordpress, Bitrix, Joomla, etc.).
Among the technical characteristics, the space allocated for your site is also important. For most modern projects, 1-2 GB is enough. Most hosting companies provide support for the PHP language and MySQL databases. But perhaps your project just doesn’t need so much space or database support, then other, simpler features will suit you. Check them in the support service.
Many people wonder whether Linux or Windows hosting should be preferred. If you do not understand the details, then for most Internet projects, the Linux platform is suitable as the most secure and fastest. If there are no special requirements from the site developer or CMS manufacturer, then you can stop on Linux.
Tip three. Testing, testing and testing again, and most importantly for free
Most hosting companies have the opportunity to test your projects for free (usually on a third-level domain). Well, if there is an opportunity to stay for free for a period of one week. Optimal - a month. During this time, you can understand how smoothly the site works, how quickly the support service answers all questions, solves the problems that arise. If you liked the service, and your site doesn’t complain about technical problems, then you can put a plus in the karma of this hosting company and take a closer look at the contents of your wallet to buy a paid hosting.
Tip Four. Carefully choose the tariff, do not forget about the growth!
We decided on the technical characteristics, checked the site, now we select tariff plans for your requirements. Currently, the optimal rate based on offers on the market is 150 rubles per month with 1 GB of space, 10 sites, support for php and MySQL. So to say, "the average temperature in the hospital."
However, it is important here to compare tariff offers from various companies, choosing optimally for the price and according to your technical requests. Perhaps the price offer of another company will suit you, then it makes sense to transfer the site files to it, and again test the project.
When choosing one or another tariff plan, do not forget that perhaps your project will grow after some time, and in the existing technical framework it will simply be "crowded". Check with your support team for the potential for upgrading to more advanced plans with minimal overhead and time. It is important that there is such a possibility of transition!
Tip Five. You can not save on security
When choosing a hosting company, tariff plan and its technical characteristics, it is important to keep the issue of security in the focus of attention. Any Internet projects are subjected to hacker attacks and hacking - from ordinary pages to cryptocurrency exchanges and even the US White House website! Be careful and always pay attention to the offers of hosting providers to strengthen site security with specific protection tools, installing security certificates and more. In any case, do not forget to make backup copies of the files and data of your site, so that in the event of a "fall" they could easily be restored.
So, hosting has been selected, files have been uploaded, the site has been tested and is working - good luck, “traffic” to you!