Your future hosting provider should be located in United States. Why? Because the highest number of clients that buy products online, read blogs, leave comments, subscribe online, do something online are from the United States. To make part of them become visitors to your blog you need to host your site in US. If you want to know why it matters, knowing that all pages on the internet are available from anywhere, in the world here is the explanation:
Internet addresses are available via routes, every route is a media connection to a hop (a server or computer that defines the routes to address specified) If your visitor is from US, and your hosting provider is located there too, the hops will be less then the case your visitor from US is trying to reach a page located in Asia. In the second case, the page generation time will be more then the first one, and there will be a bigger chance of connection failure due to the many routers and wired connections. I have been working for an internet service provider as network administrator for the last ten years and believe me troubles happen each and every day. Every trouble can cause your client to be out of reach with your blog. That is why staying closer to your potential client is better. There are different domain names for the most visited web services. Google for example has servers located in every country according with domain name for that region, they do it to increase their online time.
Next very important thing is Online Live Support. Pay attention here! This what I do not mean for this criteria is not just an option from hosting provider that contains words "Online Live Support". Most of the hosting providers have this service, but very low number of them provide "Real Time Support", all the others are communicating with their customers via email and in the next 24 or 48 hours from the opening of your trouble ticket. You can check this very easy. Take a look at the pitch page of the provider that you are considering, is there any option to contact their support? Click on it. If you are redirected to a page that is a contact form, this hosting is not for you. If after clicking on their Live Support a chat window opens, this is OK, but just for now. Type your question and send it to their help desk. If human answers you, your search for this criteria is over. You are at the right place, but not finished yet! There are other things that need your attention.
Your hosting provider must provide unlimited domain hosting for your account. If for now you are going to have one domain for your blog, in the next months you may want to register another, and another. If you are not interested for this future in the first time, one day it will cost you some extra. This is something you must avoid!
Next in the list is the size of your web site content. Every web site contains text images, videos, books, software and many more which even can not be completely listed by anyone. The size of the letter "A" in UTF-8 code is 1 byte. This is the size of a single letter. What about videos, tutorials images, galleries of images and other that will form your complete and ready for publishing blog? You can not be limited in the web space that you are going to use for your site, so when choosing your hosting provider look for a service with no limitations in space or "UNLIMITED hosting space". Every provider will let you use more space for some additional payment, but here we are trying to avoid these future spending of your funds.
To have a domain name for your blog you have to register it. Registering of a domain name will cost you some extra. Can you avoid this? Of course you can! Everything is doable! All you need to do is to look carefully in the list of the provided free futures which you will be able to use once you register with given provider. Here we are talking about "FREE Domain" This will save you another 10$ for domain registration. With free domain, you will be able to register your domain once you sign up, or during the sign up process it depends.
Test Drive cPanel is next. Once you sign up, the first thing you need to do is to start creating your site with the administration panel of your account. What if some how it looks incomprehensible? You might get in situation in which you have made your payment, but it is hard for you to administrate your site and domain. Test drive around the panel will help you take a look at that thing before you pay for it. If you feel cool using the tools, exited about the opportunities that it comes with that is definitely the choice that you can make smoothly. Remember, it does not matter if you are a guru, the content is important! If you are not exited with the cPanel you may become bored. This will get you to nothing else but closer to cancel the whole thing.
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