Why choosing your host is important!

When it comes to start­ing a web­site, peo­ple mostly tend to choose the domain, but they don’t think about the host­ing. Choos­ing host­ing is really hard, and you should be care­ful with it. So far, I’ve had 2 host­ing com­pa­nies; One of them was Hasty­Host, which was acquired by XEHost. I really liked their host, and the owner was a good friend of mine. But when he sold his com­pany, the ser­vice went down, and my sites were down for long peri­ods of time. Then I decided to find another host. So as usual, I did some search­ing, and then JustHost seemed like a good deal for me. They offered unlim­ited every­thing, and for a yearly sub­scrip­tion was $43 and something.

As many peo­ple tend to say, unlim­ited every­thing is not really unlim­ited. But so far, I have about 20 web­sites that are live, and I have not had a prob­lem with my ser­vices. My sites have never, ever been down because of my host.

When it comes to sup­port, I think that JustHost sup­port is the mos help­ful sup­port ever. They have helped me with so much stuff, I can’t even describe it. They will even help you with script instal­la­tion, although they’re not get­ting paid to do that. One time, I had prob­lems with installing a script, and I opened a ticket on their sup­port, and my issue was solved within an hour.

Why am I telling you this? I’m not try­ing to pro­mote JustHost or any­thing, I’m just telling you that you should be really really care­ful with choos­ing your host, because your site depends on it. ASK! Just ask! Go to pop­u­lar forums, like DP for exam­ple, and ask for feed­back. Because to be hon­est with you, all the com­pa­nies are gonna tell you that you should go with them because they’re the best, but when you ask some­one that has expe­ri­ence with it, then you know you’re get­ting the truth.