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Web Hosting Reviews: Why You Should Not Ignore Them

“My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.” –  Jeffrey Gitomer

Creating a user-friendly and usable website is an essential and useful way for people and businesses to maintain a strong web presence.  In fact, a site that pays attention to (and provides) what the consumer wants is a mandatory part of any successful digital media marketing strategy.

Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple to choose a reliable web hosting and domain provider. The bad news is that there are many web hosting providers in the global marketplace, it is essential to read web hosting reviews such as InMotion reviews.

Reading through a large number of web hosting reviews will take undoubtedly take some time, but you (and your business) will definitely benefit from it. Therefore, here are some reasons why you should read these reviews:

The cost of hosting and domain registration

Good web hosting reviews will include the domain registration costs, renewal costs, as well as the monthly hosting costs. It’s important to take note of these costs to ensure that they fit into your monthly / annual budget.

Web hosting reviews provide more in-depth information about the services and features of a web host. Different hosting providers offer different packages, costing different amounts. Consequently, it is essential to make sure that you know what each package costs and what is included in the price.

Insight into what each provider offers

Apart from the costs involved in hosting your website, a good website hosting review should provide information such as what programming languages are available, the number of domains that can be hosted on your account, the hosting servers (Linux or Window), and what management consoles (cPanel) are part of the package. Also, the review should note the amount of available bandwidth as well as the server disk space limit.

The server hardware, backup strength, safeguards, and other data-related aspects should also be discussed in a comprehensive review. These are the features you should pay attention to if you want to check a website hosting provider’s reliability.

Customer Support

The quality of timeous and professional customer support needs to be a critical factor in your decision-making process. The consequences of poor customer support when your website goes down can be dire in that the longer your site is inaccessible, the more it will cost your business in lost revenue.

Final Thoughts

The primary aim of reading numerous website reviews is to help you narrow down your list of web hosting providers and resulting in the choice of the provider who best fits the needs of your company. Finally, it’s critical to be cognizant of the fact that it is not a good idea to swap website hosting providers. It is far better from a practical and business perspective to choose a provider who has the potential to meet your short-, medium-, and long-term needs.

Jess Young

Jess is a writer at the UK's largest independent press agency SWNS. She runs women's real-life magazine Real-Fix.com, as well as contributing articles and features to all of the major titles and digital publications.

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