Sounds good? Not so fast. The devil is in the details, and the details can be found in the hosting provider’s terms of service (TOS). Luckily for all of us, pretty much every TOS says the same thing: you can’t abuse their servers. Well mate Honestly selecting a shared hosting usually cause a lot of …
With a shared hosting plan, you are renting space on a server that you share with other website owners. This also means you’re sharing resources like bandwidth, memory, and power. This can be a problem, because a web host company typically supports hundreds, even thousands, of websites on a single server. Most of these websites …
And finally, we required 99.95 percent (or higher) uptime. Uptime measures a company’s track record for keeping websites online all of the time. In a perfect world, your website would be available to readers 100 percent of the time. But companies typically only guarantee 99.9 percent uptime, since occasional technical difficulty is inevitable. We used …
For all hosting accounts located on servers on the West Coast, I used a testing server located in Ashburn, VA. And for all hosting accounts living on servers on the East Coast, I used a testing server located in Portland, Oregon. Virtual Dedicated Server: also known as a Virtual Private Server (VPS), divides server resources …
Security – Siteground keeps about 30 backup copies of your website. They also offer different types of SSL, depending on the plan you’ve purchased. All their servers use the latest PHP 7 version, with the latest security fixes. Also, they use ModSecurity and suExec, but you’ll have to visit their page for detailed info. Spec-wise, …
HostGator gained points for uptime monitoring and regular backups, along with free cPanel or Plesk. We liked that SSH is available for the more technically inclined site operators and that dedicated IP addresses could be purchased. We did take points off because it’s sometimes difficult to tell what the price is once promotional plans run …
My website has been online for more than ten years. It continues to be a reliable source for people looking for information on web hosting. I have not been writing web hosting reviews during those years, but recently I have changed my mind. We like how iPage offers 24-7 telephone support and a 30-day guarantee …
Confused? Don’t know if you need shared hosting, VPS or a dedicated server for your project? Does server location matter? Should you use a Linux or Windows server? What about CDNs, SSDs, and ASP? Maybe you don’t even know what means? No worries — read the primer below. GlowHost had the best customer service of …
Disclosure: Our website receives compensation from the companies whose products we recommend and because of it, we are able to provide help with setting up your blog. We tested and used most of the web hosting sites and domain registrars recommended here. SiteGround was one of our top performers, and is especially impressive considering the …
Inmotion Hosting’s scores really took me by surprise. With one of the fastest minimum response times, and by far the fastest max response time, InMotion stayed right around 600ms for the entire test, which is really impressive. The graph looks to have more hills and valleys than most, but that’s because it stayed so close …