{"id":41,"date":"2008-10-16T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2016-01-28T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T02:11:26","slug":"web-hosting-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/your-web-site\/web-hosting-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is $300 Too Much to Pay for Web Hosting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that depends. As I read through the rest of the email that brought the question, I noticed that the potential web host mentioned other things that he&#8217;d include for that price. I saw the phrases <strong>creating animations<\/strong> and <strong>editing photo images<\/strong>. Those are both clearly design activities that have nothing to do with hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Further on I saw the mention of <strong>autoresponders<\/strong>, <strong>mailing list<\/strong> programs, and use of a <strong>domain name<\/strong>. None of these are hosting activities. You might need them, but you might not.<\/p>\n<p>If you need help on the design and layout of your web site, I strongly suggest you consider that as a completely separate activity from web hosting. Many designers make extra money by selling (or reselling) hosting services. Often times that takes you out of the loop, and any problem you have must go through the designer to be worked out.<\/p>\n<p>No one cares as much as you do about your web site, so I recommend having a direct connection to technical support at the actual web host. I&#8217;ve also seen cases where business owners had their web sites held captive by designers who also provided hosting, making it extremely stressful for the entrepreneurs to get access to their data and making it nearly impossible to change web hosts.<\/p>\n<p>A word of warning. If your potential designer talks about his or her &#8220;proprietary interface'&#8221; please understand that this means it is highly unlikely that you&#8217;ll be able to do even a simple edit on your web site without the designer getting involved (and probably charging for it).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you go about evaluating a potential web host?<\/strong><br \/>\nDo some research to learn about different hosting companies. Then check out their performance statistics <a href=\" http:\/\/uptime.netcraft.com\/perf\/reports\/Hosters\">here<\/a>. Consider spending some time on a forum site like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\"> this one <\/a>to see what others are saying. And try Googling the name of the company followed by the word &#8220;complaints&#8221; to see what others think.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I pay $9.95 per month to host 5 web sites and my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that depends. As I read through the rest of the email that brought the question, I noticed that the potential web host mentioned other things that he&#8217;d include for that price. I saw the phrases creating animations and editing photo images. Those are both clearly design activities that have nothing to do with hosting.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[66,65],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-web-site","tag-web-design","tag-web-hosting","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}