If you have any kind of problem with your hosting or a script, or domain related questions etc etc you are best to just go straight to your hosting provider. You are paying them money for their services, part of their service is the help and support they provide – they have to help you!

In my experience just going straight to your host gets a quicker response and a better response than posting on a forum. The majority of people on a forum probably won’t know how to solve your problem, the hosting support will. The hosting providers also have access to your site so they can take a look to get a full understanding of the issue, unlike forum members.

So next time you need a question answering related to the functions of your website (not promotional questions and stuff like that!) just go straight to your host and save yourself a lot of time!

Use Your Providers Customer Service To Get Hosting Problems Solved is a post from: Web Hosting Blog

I started off by doing quite a bit of research using a checklist I put together, the provider had to be UK based and I didn’t want to be spending more than £20 ($40) per month, as well as a few other requirements. Having came down to 3 companies I then decided to use forums for opinions.

In a thread on a UK business forum I am apart of a couple of other host providers contacted me about if I would be interested in using them. I told them my requirements and asked them to give me their best price, as well as the company I am currently expecting to go with (just to get the price lower!).

A few chats later I had got myself some great reseller hosting which beat my requirements and came in well under my monthly budget – the hosting is also very fast and the support from the host so far has been brilliant.

Conclusion
To get the best price for your hosting always contact companies saying you have slightly different requirements to the packages they sell and if they could offer you a price for your needs. Get quite a few quotes and tell them what prices other companies are offering.

You can soon have yourself some great hosting at a really good price!

Haggle Hosts And Compare Prices To Get A Better Deal is a post from: Web Hosting Blog

However it can affect the success of your website. If you stuggle to manage your website then development of the actual site will be slow, costing you time and money.

It is important that you pick either cPanel or FTP and master it. Even if you are only ever intending to set-up and run one website, you want to be fully confident and sure in what you are doing. I run quite a few websites and have done for a few years now, I’ve always used cPanel and feel very comfortable using it. On the other hand I know nothing about FTP and never intend to manage any website via FTP.

Conclusion
When you are looking for a new hosting provider make sure you get hosting with your preferred choice, and stick with it throughout your online journey. Because if you chop and change between the two it could affect your success!

Learn One Way; cPanel or FTP and Master It is a post from: Web Hosting Blog

The problem with this is that in order to make money the reviewers have to make sales. If they give a bad review of a company, no one will use them and the reviewer won’t make any money. This pushes the affiliates into giving positive reviews, even if the service provider they are reviewing isn’t very good.

We’ve all read the kinds of reviews before that I’m talking about. They give the host 10/10 and say how great the customer service, how amazing the 99.9% uptime is and that you can’t beat the amazing prices! When in truth the affiliate has never used the service, hasn’t researched the service and knows very little about the service provider at all.

How To Avoid Such Reviews
You can use webmaster forums to find out if a provider is any good, forums don’t generally allow affiliate links so unless those replying work for the company (unlikely) you should get decent feedback on whether the company is any good.

You can also try and use websites like ours. In our list of hosting providers we don’t give a full review, we simply list individual companies and give hard facts about them, like how long they have been established, number of customers they have etc etc. This way you can make your own mind up.

So watch out for those hosting reviews who praise too much, they may have an ulterior motive!

Be Careful Of Hosting Reviews That Praise Too Much! is a post from: Web Hosting Blog

So in web hosting what is ‘good’ customer service?

• A quick response is vital. If your site is coming up with errors meaning the site won’t display at all you need it sorting and quickly! A company taking 24hrs to respond is going to cost you money in lost revenue, zero user satisfaction and no chance of visitors returning.
• They must be able to sort your problems properly. It may only be simple but if it takes the host a day to sort it out then what happens when you have a major problem. This often happens when you buy hosting from a ’reseller’ and the reseller doesn’t actually have any technical knowledge.
• They should be polite. Manners cost nothing and although it isn’t critical it is good to be able to build up a relationship with those who help you which will benefit you in the future. 

So when you are drawing up a shortlist remember to get some feeback on hosts and it will save you headaches in the future!

Good Customer Service Should Be High Up Your List is a post from: Web Hosting Blog