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How we test and evaluate web hosting services?

How we test and evaluate web hosting services?

Reliability
While a website’s reliability is one of the most important factors, it is extremely difficult to assess it yourself before you pay to open an account. Luckily there are unbiased online services on the web that can measure the reliability of any website with little effort. We use Pingdom™ to find out the average uptime percentage of any given website hosting service.
Speed
Sustained and stable functioning is an excellent quality, but you also want your website to open fast. We measure the speed characteristics of web hosting services using Pingdom™’s Average Response Time parameter. All other things being equal, this value is gives a clear indication of how fast a particular website hosting provider is.
Ease to Use
Many people underestimate the importance of usability, giving preference to a lower price or higher bandwidth. But wasting precious time daily on struggling through unintuitive menus may eventually result in much more serious losses. We create an account with every website hosting provider and perform a full range of common tasks in order to determine which web hosts offer the easiest solutions.
Features
While bandwidth and the amount of disk space appear to be the key factors in comparing features, other capabilities a web host offers also shouldn’t be disregarded. Realizing that each business has its own set of requirements for functions and services, our specialists simply list the features provided by a web hosting company and leave the choice up to you.
Price
Instead of a direct price comparison, we perform a more in-depth analysis including payment options, refund and money-back possibilities, billing terms, and other pricing details. Since prices may vary greatly, it is also important to calculate cost-effectiveness: what you get for your money.
Customer Support
Even if your web host works like a charm, you will still probably need technical support sooner or later. Lightning-fast support, live chat, and an online ticket system are standard for many companies, but which hosts really provide the support they promise? We test response time and the quality of answers to the requests we submit to web host. We also check if they provide help materials and reference information

Web Hosting Services
Web Hosting Services

By web hosting services we mean the kind of internet hosting services that can be used by different organizations and individuals to make their websites accessible through the www portal. Organizations that provide such services are known as web hosting services companies.

There are numerous web hosting services that can be provided by these companies. The basic web hosting services is the small scale file and web page hosting through the FTP (File Transfer Protocol). There are other web hosting services like Personal website hosting and business website hosting. Usually a personal website is operates on single page hosting. However, the web hosting services that are requires for business website can be classified based on the requirements.

Database support and application development platforms (Java, ASP.net etc.) are examples of web hosting services required for a complex website. There are other web hosting services like free web hosting service which is usually advertisement supported or there is a time bound limitation. Shared web hosting services provide access for different websites from the same server. Reseller web hosting services allows the buyer to resell the web space to different clients based on needs. Dedicated web hosting services allow the user to get full access to the web server on which the website is hosted. They do not own the server but have administrative rights to manage and maintain it.

There are numerous permutations and combinations to choose your web server depending on the web hosting services provided by the service provider. So, one should be very sure of the needs before selecting the appropriate web hosting services.