We have come to one of the most frequent doubts for those looking to host a website: how to find out the ideal hosting plan for the site. Follow these tips!
Find out what the size of your site is (or will be)
Respond quickly: Is the site you built or plan to build small or large? Think about the number of pages it will have: up to 10? More than 10? And more: how many images, videos, and audios are available on your site? Answering these questions will help you define the size of your site. Look:
A small or medium site can be hosted on a shared hosting, especially if it is optimized. This type of hosting is the most popular and caters to the largest number of websites worldwide. As we have seen, it is the cheapest hosting since it costs between $ 6 and $ 20 per month.
Sites with many pages and heavy files need a Cloud or dedicated hosting. In some cases, the VPS may serve, but you must evaluate it very carefully.
Plan expected traffic to your site
In most cases, website owners expect to receive a lot of traffic, a lot of visitors, right? So before you even put your site up, you should estimate this traffic – every time page loads, it uses some of the hosting server’s features. Look:
A blog or website with low to a moderate number of hits can use a shared hosting service. A site that has many accesses, or traffic peaks, can quickly consume available resources up to the limit set in the hosting plan. When this happens it is very likely that the site will be down. Sites with high traffic or traffic peaks must be hosted on Cloud or on dedicated servers.
It is very important to properly estimate the features of your new site or closely monitor the consumption of your current site. This care will make all the difference to prevent unavailability or slow navigation – which would detract from your brand image and Google’s own rankings.
Find out if your website has or will have a virtual store
Another very important point to consider when choosing the hosting is whether the site has or will have a virtual store. In this case, the hosting needs to offer the SSL security protocol and the dedicated IP.
These two technical details are important because they guarantee the security of the data of the people who make purchases online (through encryption – coding information to be read only by the online transaction tools). Without this care, all the security of the information of the clients of the virtual store, as well as of the owner of the e-commerce, can be threatened.
In the case of sales made through a third-party payment tool (PayPal, etc.), this concern disappears because the transaction already takes place in a secure environment provided by these companies.
For websites that have virtual sales, the hosting plan varies by store size. Those containing a few product pages can be very well served by a shared hosting – always with dedicated SSL and IP. Those with medium and large virtual stores need more robust plans – VPS server, cloud or dedicated server.
