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Every website needs a web hosting service to keep their content online and serve their website visitors, a good website hosting provider not only need to maintain and provide reliable services to clients, but can also serve as an advisory role which provide additional valuable and professional advices to new webmasters, this can be of significant help in the process of building a much more solid and better website as well as helping a new webmaster to pickup the industry knowledge much faster. This sort of additional and ‘personalized’ service is very important for people that is still new to web hosting and internet, new website developers will be guided towards the proper direction and perhaps less time is needed to spend on research and trial an error, all these added values are important factors that can contribute towards an online success.

A quick search on internet will list out thousands of web hosting providers with all kinds of offers, and no doubt at all there will be all kinds of marketing tricks and traps within some of these offers. How do we know which company is good and which offer is a marketing trap ? or rather, which web hosting company will the most suitable choice ? Well, here is a simple three steps guide written by experience webmasters to help beginners to find themselves a suitable web hosting provider without making all the common mistakes.

Prepare a list of your own expectations and requirements

This is a very important task that most people have overlooked, take out a piece of paper and start writing down all the technical requirements for running your website, you can refer to the official website of the web application you have chosen for your website. After getting this technical requirements done up, continue to list out all your own questions you have in mind about getting your website up and running on this hosting service and all sorts of services that you expect from your web host. For example, you expect to have the same support staff to attend to your support questions all the time, and this guy should have at least a basic understanding of your website requirements and be able to fix things on the spot for you or offer an alternative solution if there is no direct fix available, or this guy is to seek help himself if he is not capable of fixing it for you, rather than passing your questions to different technical support staff. All these questions and expected treatments are important to help you understand what exactly you want from your web hosting partner, and this understanding is important for you when identifying a suitable web host, many webmaster tends to overlook this important step and caught themselves in a repeating task of hopping around different web host in a trial an error practice until they finally bump into a web host that they feel comfortable with. While hopping around, these webmasters may still be distracted by different marketing traps and yet still commit to a service that may not fit them well. In such practice, valuable time is wasted in the repeating task of searching and moving between web hosting company, which should actually be allocated to focus on website traffic building.

Get Recommendations From Experience Webmasters

After getting a crystal clear understanding of your own needs, you can ask for recommendations from friends that has good experience in using web hosting services or much better if they are working in the related field, give them an idea of your requirements and ask for a few web host recommendations that fits you. You can also check through popular webmaster forums for comments on these recommended web hosts, this can serve as a second opinion. Don’t be surprise if you are being referred to some not so commonly mentioned web hosting providers, there are lots of good website hosting provider that do not conduct aggressive marketing campaign online, these web hosts generally have long time clients with them and get their business mostly through word of mouth. It is worth checking out these companies for they are likely be able to provide a more personalized value added services than those that conduct massive marketing campaign online. Shortlist about five web host for final check later.

Personally Verify Web Host Before Commit

Finally, although you have shortlisted those web host that is recommended by others, you should still personally check them out before making any commitments, you should know that every human being is unique and it is you yourself that will know if it really fits. You can send them your list of questions and then carefully go through their replies. Don’t be surprise you will still be able to filter out those that seems good but does not really meet your expectations, and finally identify the web host that you are feeling most comfortable hosting with.

With this simple three step approach, you will have less chances to fall into marketing traps loosing valuable time and money. Most importantly, it save you from the process of hopping around different web hosts, and be able to focus on making a better website for your visitors.