A web host is the most important link between site owner and site visitors. If hosting services are less than stellar, a site’s user experience is highly likely to be low and vice versa. A bad user experience is known to cause once loyal visitors to leave in droves with little or no likelihood of ever returning.
As such, selecting the Hub Web Hosting company should be a well thought out process. Here are four important considerations when selecting a web host:
Security
In the past, security was more of an afterthought in the web hosting industry trumped by factors such as pricing and bandwidth. However, recent high profile data breach events have refocused the spotlight on security. According to data published by the Ponemon Institute in September 2014, 43% of companies in the US had experienced a data breach in the preceding 12 months. Worryingly, this figure had increased by a staggering 10% year-on-year. With this in mind, select a Hub Web Hosting firm that offers real-time data protection. This should include daily malware scans, continuous traffic monitoring, denial-of-service mitigation, SSL and HTTPS, robust firewall, and the best anti-virus technology.
Continuous Maintenance and Updating
The tech industry landscape has a legendary reputation of moving at a speed unmatched by other industries. A good example is the Docker containerization technology, which was unheard of a few years ago. However, it has taken the tech industry by storm becoming more or less a standard/benchmark in its own right. For this reason, it is wise to choose a web host who keeps abreast of industry developments and continuously updates applications, software, and other tools required to provide seamlessly smooth services to clients. Remember, failure to update tools that developers use to keep their sites running such as PHP, Perl, Joomla, and MongoDB degrades site performance and increases likelihood of data breaches.
Data Backup
The most important resource a site has is the data stored in Hub Web Hosting servers. You can think of this data as the attraction that keeps visitors coming back repeatedly. If it were lost irretrievably due to hardware/software failure or hacking, there would be no reason for web users to visit the same site. To avoid becoming another data loss statistic, choose a hosting company that offers data backups. This makes it easy for host to restore clients’ data and resume operations even after losing all data stored on servers at a specific or across multiple locations. The general rule of thumb is to make sure hosting firm persistently backs-up data in more than one location. Such a host can recover client data even if it is irrecoverable from servers and primary data backup point.
Features
Before signing up for a web-hosting package, find out more about the feature you can expect to access. In addition, make sure those features suit your site’s current technical requirements and future growth needs. To start with, find out amount of disk space allocated to Hub Web Hosting package you are eyeing. For a newly launched site that does not yet have a lot of content, disk space of about 10GB would be enough. Another important feature is bandwidth, which largely depends on site architecture and traffic. Other features to evaluate include pre-installed apps and widgets, email accounts, database support, frameworks, shell access, Cron jobs, ability to add .htaccess files, language support, and easy third-party app/software/framework installs.
Conclusion
The company you choose to host your site literally holds the key to success or failure of your web-based venture. For this reason, the most important factors to consider when selecting one include security, features, data backup, as well as continuous maintenance and updating of server hardware/software.
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