Creating a wonderful and useful website has no mean if your web hosting services is not good enough to support your site run over internet.With increase the popularity of php development it’s also increase the career scope of php developers in India.
Hosting a website mean making your website available to people worldwide. To make your website available to people you need to store your site over a computer called web server which is connected to internet all the time through powerful link. If you are not able to have such strong service you can rent space from other who have such system and provide web space on rent.
What Are Basic Feature You Should Look Before Buying A Hosting Service
Disk Space – Disk space is the amount of storage you have purchased or host has provided. Calculate the amount of web space your website needed to get all the data like web files composed of text, Images, video, audio or other graphics. Always chose your disk space plan wisely as per your website requirement. Like if you keep updating images and video on your website you need to have large space for your website.
Bandwidth – Bandwidth means the amount of data that a website can transfer over a period of time. It determines the speed of your website. More bandwidth means more speed. The less bandwidth your site has, the slower it takes for it to load. Some hosting service providers provide unlimited bandwidth whereas some others have different prices based upon the amount you use. If your website has heavier pages like those with lots of images, videos etc. then you will need higher storage along with greater bandwidth.
Uptime – Uptime means the percentage of time your website is active on your web server and available for people over internet. 99.99% uptime would mean that your website will go down only for about 8 hours in a year while 98% uptime would mean that your website may remain down for about 7.3 days in a year. Greater Uptime means more visibility over internet. If your website is e-commerce website you it will be a kind of loss if your server has lower uptime.
Customer service and support – This is one of the most important points you need to search for. Reliable and supportive customer service is must to solve any kind of problem quickly.
Server compatibility and application support – You need to check if server is compatible with your Php version or not. Php is open source and are compatible with most of servers like Linux server, Windows server or others. Check is your web host support latest version of php.
If you are blogger and want easy to use check if your server host provides functionality of easy to install application over server. Application over server installation is very useful and makes easy to change and update things on your website from any where only you need to have is a good internet connection speed.
Data Backup – Data backup is an essential feature server should support. You need to check if your server provider gives option for regular back of your website. Back up services are must in case if any incident happens and server looses important data you should always have backup for your work. You should check for the feature before buying hosting service that if you can take a backup easily from control panel or any programme is created for auto back.
Easy to use hosting C panel – Check if hosting C panel is easy to use and understand. Simplified function in control panel is easy to use and you can understand your server function better. If you have a complicated control panel it takes lot of time to understand time and get your work done. Like if you are looking to create a new email ID for your domain and need to allot email ID space it could be done within few seconds where as complex C-panel will consume your lots of time.