A host can look perfect on price and still fail you the first time DNS, SSL or a botched deploy takes the site down. Support is the product you only notice when you need it, which is exactly when marketing copy stops mattering.
The cheapest hosting plan on the page is almost never the cheapest plan over two years. Intro teasers pull you in; renewals pay the bills. If you only compare the first-year sticker, you are shopping the way the affiliate market wants you to shop.
A host that promises daily backups is not the same as a host that can put yesterday's site back online in an afternoon. Backups are an insurance product. You only learn whether the policy pays out when something is already broken.
If you have ever searched for the best web host and landed on five near-identical top 10 lists, you already know the problem. Those rankings often have more to do with affiliate commissions than with uptime, support or what you will actually pay after the first year.
This is the last in a series of three articles dealing with the "How to" of online business. In the first article, the future of online business was discussed.
Since the birth of the Internet, net neutrality has governed that all data should be treated equally, regardless of its content or who created it.
Cloud web hosting is a service offered by tech companies for websites, whereby the businesses' servers are hosted 'in the cloud,' i.e., distributed over a number of different servers, in differing physical locations, connected through the Internet.
At the end of July 2014, Google released a changed algorithm to their search engine. The aim of the update was to provide more useful, relevant, and accurate local search results.
This is the second article in the 3-part online business series and will focus on perhaps the most difficult challenge facing any online business: how to get noticed.
Web Hosting has grown from fairly humble roots to become the multibillion-dollar industry it is today, but has it reached its apex yet? Like most technology, there is always room for innovation, and it is no different with web hosting.
