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How to Choose the Right Host for Your Tech Startup Website

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John Tailor
How to Choose the Right Host for Your Tech Startup Website

No matter how great your online business idea is, without a proper website, well, what’s the point? One of the biggest challenges of coming up with a properly-functioning website is selecting the right hosting company. Should you end up choosing the wrong one, you’ll also end up paying a lot of money to transfer your domain name to another one that is more suitable for your needs. In addition, you may also pay more than you want or need, because by choosing a wrong hosting company you may end up with a ton of services that you might never use.
With this in mind, here are some key factors to consider when choosing a hosting provider.

1.      How necessary is database support for you?

For those who are totally new at this, a database is pretty much information storage, a place where data stays and where it can be regularly accessed forever.
This is how you’ll be storing information with regards to your products should you intend to run an e-commerce website.
The chances are that you will need some sort of a database, unless you’re one of those websites that simply aggregate information from other sites – these pages work by means of the webmaster updating them on a regular basis.
The first thing you need to do when deciding on your website hosting provider is ask yourself whether or not you’ll need database support.

2.      Choose the database support type

Once the question of whether or not you’ll need database support is answered, it’s time to choose. Usually, hosting providers tend to use MySQL as the database of choice, because this is a relational database management system that fits the needs of the majority of small businesses. Of course, you might actually need a robust, industrial-strength solution, in which case you’re looking at Oracle and if you are using ASP for presentation-layer coding, then MongoDB should suit your needs.

3.      Hosting provider capacity

In the world of startups, you are likely starting as a small business. However distant it may seem from this point of view, your final goal is growth and achieving more success. Your host should be scalable. In other words, you need one that has enough capacity to suit your growth needs. In fact, the hosting service you choose should scale with the growth needs of your business, just as gradually as your business expands; otherwise, you’ll experience a ton of downtime as your system gets increasingly overrun with a growing number of requests, while losing sales and customers! This is why choosing a hosting provider with unlimited disk space and email accounts is a smart way to go.

4.      Tech support

No matter how tech-savvy you are, you’re bound to experience problems with technology and even the world’s best hosting company can’t produce an infallible technological solution. So, what does the world’s best hosting company excel at, if not impeccable software? Well, customer service and tech support! When problems occur, as they will, you’ll want your hosting provider to solve them quickly and quietly and, if incapable, provide compensation and, at the very least, talk to you nicely. When choosing a host, choose from those with a reputation for outstanding customer service!

It is crucial that you pay attention to the database support you’re getting when choosing your hosting provider – ask yourself do you actually need it and, if you do, how to recognize the type that you need. Hosting provider capacity is the next thing you should focus on; if you’re intending to grow as a business, you’re looking for scalability. Finally, never disregard the importance of customer service and tech support in your hosting provider!

 

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