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What should a good hosting provider offer?

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Stefan Daskalov
What should a good hosting provider offer?

What should a good hosting provider offer?
Attractive prices and promotions for your hosting services. Nowadays, there are many hosting providers. The supply and demand are high, so hosting providers strive to give the best prices and discounts to attract new customers. If you are in the stage of choosing a new host, you can find a variety of offers.


Domains. It's always a plus if the hosting and domain are backed by the same company. Many companies even give extra discounts if you buy both from them. You can also find deals on domains for sale where the hosting provider makes no or minimal profit. When choosing a domain, it is important to keep it short. Remember that digital marketing trends have long required the promotion of a sustainable brand. Remember, you work to become a name first, then your name works for you.


SSL Certificate. The SSL certificate encrypts the connection between your user's browser and the server to secure the data being transmitted. These days, it's necessary to have it. Most browsers prevent users from accessing pages without an SSL certificate.


cPanel. With this software, you can extremely easily manage almost all processes in your hosting account. If you don't have the technical knowledge of how to manage servers, you should choose a hosting provider that offers such software.


Email account. Of course, the important communication should be done through email. This way, you will always have it stored and accessible in a protected place. If you are planning to build a serious business, it does not look professional to use abv mail. Therefore, your hosting provider should also offer you to manage a mail server and accounts for the needs of your website, online store or blog.

 
Shared Hosting. This is the most helpful service offered in the hosting services market. What does "shared" mean? In short, you get a shared server space with other customers of the hosting company. So, a server can have from 300 to over 1000 accounts (the number also depends on the capabilities of the server), which allows providers to offer prices starting from 2.90 BGN. For example, the hosting company Jump has such an offer.


Cloud VPS. Cloud VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a server that is divided into parts. It allows you to rent as many resources as you need, for example CPU (CPU time), RAM (RAM), SSD. VPS guarantees that only you use these resources and don't have to worry about naughty neighbors with the same IP.


IP Addresses. You never know how much and when you will need them. Be prepared and look for a hosting provider that offers to buy you additional IP addresses. Companies that strive to deliver the best quality of service to their customers even verify their IP addresses before offering them for sale, so they aren't accidentally used for search engine hostile practices.


Managed Cloud VPS. The service allows you to rent the resources you need on a pre-configured server with 24/7 support. With Managed Cloud VPS, you get cPanel for easy management of all processes in the hosting account and resources provisioned just for you.


Rented Servers. It is not known how much you can grow and how big you can get. We want everyone to grow at an unprecedented pace, and in these cases, you may need to use a leased server. This allows you to rent your hardware. These services, give you two options, Leased Server and Managed Leased Server. If you choose the second option, you leave it to the company to take care of it when physical intervention and system administration is required.


24/7 Support. 100% we would not define as good hosting if there is no 24/7 support. Something can always happen to your hosting account or website, and it's good to know that you can count on someone to help you 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.


Free Site Transfer. A good hosting partner will also offer you a free transfer of your site or sites when you migrate from another hosting company. If you don't have the technical skills to transfer databases and files to the new server, it's a plus if they can do it for you.


Fast and reliable servers. When determining if a hosting is good, it is logical to ask if it uses the latest generation of servers. The speed of the website depends on the capabilities of the server. Server level caching module. Trends and especially users force us to create more and more user-friendly sites, which involves additional features and more and more resources to be loaded by the browser. Caching these files greatly improves the speed and performance of your site.


Database Backup. It is a mandatory requirement for hosting to offer Database Backup. Remember that an update or change to the site could also break the functionality of your site. This will not bother you if you have a backup. In a minute, you will be able to return an old working version of the website with everything working.


No inodes restrictions No restrictions on the number of inodes at the account level. However, it should be mentioned that such a limitation exists in the file system itself for the entire server. Very few hosting companies do not have such limitations. Here is why I Chose Jump Hosting?

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