Hope this will not conflict with X10Hosting's business model ..
A very very short introduction
I’ve personally setup many websites and have my fair share of headache when dealing with the hosts. Thus, I decided to put up a little of what I know to ease you of the pain.
Basics of Choosing a Good Web Host!
I’ll very bold to say that this section is written with the assumption that you are a newbie with web hosting. If you are an advanced user, you’ll probably have known quite a fair bit of what to look out for and what to avoid. This will simplify the tutorial a hell of a lot.
In fact I’ll just simply mention the 5 MANDATORY Factors that I’ll personally consider when choosing a webhost.
Control Panel
I ONLY RECOMMEND Host that are using CPanel. Nothing else!
Cpanel is the easiest to use interface that I’ve encountered. Personally I’ve tried Godaddy, and several others that uses VDeck. None comes as close in terms of user friendliness as compared with CPanel
Support
24/7LIVE CHAT is a MUST! Especially if you are hosting with a host that is out of your country
Reliability
NEVER settle for any host that has an uptime of less than 99.9%. NEVER believe any host that promises 100%! That is bull****!
Price
You’ll be a complete idiot to pay for any basic plan that cost more than USD10! With the great competition and continual falling prices in hardware, you can easily get a hosting space of more than 100GB for less than USD10.
Email Limitation
NOTE: This is a feature that is almost never published!
Most common webhost (unless dedicated server hosting) WILL implement a limit on the emails that you can send through them! This is a way of ensuring that
1)They are not tools for spamming
2)All clients get a decent performance with their hosting.
Check with them through their LIVE Chat. (Also a good test of their LIVE Chat response time)
Do not settle for anything that is less than 300emails/hour
If you are hosting with the following web-hosts, you can be quite sure of their quality of service.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So let's see how did X10Host fare against my 5 Mandatory Factors assuming they are a PAID hosting:
Control Panel - Passed!!
Support - Failed (But they are FREE!!!!
)
Reliability - Passed!!
Price - PASSED!! (Exceeded expecteation!!)
Email Limitation - Unknown (But again .. They are FREE!!!!)
So it is a 3/4 with 1 unknown .. .. sure beats a hell lot of other paid-host out in the market!
I've done a very comprehensive ebook on this topic, which is available at:
You can download it there
A very very short introduction
I’ve personally setup many websites and have my fair share of headache when dealing with the hosts. Thus, I decided to put up a little of what I know to ease you of the pain.
Basics of Choosing a Good Web Host!
I’ll very bold to say that this section is written with the assumption that you are a newbie with web hosting. If you are an advanced user, you’ll probably have known quite a fair bit of what to look out for and what to avoid. This will simplify the tutorial a hell of a lot.
In fact I’ll just simply mention the 5 MANDATORY Factors that I’ll personally consider when choosing a webhost.
Control Panel
I ONLY RECOMMEND Host that are using CPanel. Nothing else!
Cpanel is the easiest to use interface that I’ve encountered. Personally I’ve tried Godaddy, and several others that uses VDeck. None comes as close in terms of user friendliness as compared with CPanel
Support
24/7LIVE CHAT is a MUST! Especially if you are hosting with a host that is out of your country
Reliability
NEVER settle for any host that has an uptime of less than 99.9%. NEVER believe any host that promises 100%! That is bull****!
Price
You’ll be a complete idiot to pay for any basic plan that cost more than USD10! With the great competition and continual falling prices in hardware, you can easily get a hosting space of more than 100GB for less than USD10.
Email Limitation
NOTE: This is a feature that is almost never published!
Most common webhost (unless dedicated server hosting) WILL implement a limit on the emails that you can send through them! This is a way of ensuring that
1)They are not tools for spamming
2)All clients get a decent performance with their hosting.
Check with them through their LIVE Chat. (Also a good test of their LIVE Chat response time)
Do not settle for anything that is less than 300emails/hour
If you are hosting with the following web-hosts, you can be quite sure of their quality of service.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So let's see how did X10Host fare against my 5 Mandatory Factors assuming they are a PAID hosting:
Control Panel - Passed!!
Support - Failed (But they are FREE!!!!
)Reliability - Passed!!
Price - PASSED!! (Exceeded expecteation!!)
Email Limitation - Unknown (But again .. They are FREE!!!!)
So it is a 3/4 with 1 unknown .. .. sure beats a hell lot of other paid-host out in the market!
I've done a very comprehensive ebook on this topic, which is available at:
You can download it there
