Good Vs Bad Hosting

[eria]

What differenciate the good and bad hosting? what issues to consider before choosing a hosting or changing it?

[monaghan]

Good hosting meets your needs, bad hosting doesn't

As to what's good or bad for you depends on what you actually need from your hosting. Many people find free hosting good, many find cheap hosting good, many find hugely overpriced hosting good.

If you're hosting a personal site, then a free or cheap host will be fine for most needs, if you need high availability for an ecommerce solution, then you should expect to invest a decent sum.

The costs involved will generally reflect the value of your site.

Personally, I'd always go with a smaller company as you generally are more important to a small company, to a big company you can become just a user number or line entry on the sales ledger.

[eria]

well is there only cost which matters while going for hosting?

[monaghan]

If cost is your only consideration, then it's very difficult to determine good from bad. Generally the cheapest hosts tend to be oversellers and often shoolboy hosts.

If you're prepared to invest a bit and move off the bottom rung, then you generally get better quality hosting.

[ninikins]

I'd say good support is a big factor. Being able to communicate any problems you're having.

[brian]

Support is essential. Sh!t does happen in hosting. So when your site eventually goes down or become unresponsive, you want the issue correcting ASAP, and to be kept informed of the situation - rather than be left offline for days with no reply to support tickets.

[shannonlp]

Support and uptime are the most important factors for me. Speed of the server would be a close 2nd.

[Hoosierhunter]

You also might want to consider hosting that offers easy webpage setup if you're a newbie. Yahoo, for example, is a little pricy but they have a neat site builder you can use to set up your site. If you're not really good at creating your site the old fashioned way, you might want to find hosting that includes a good website building program.

[soul-healer]

Choosing a good host ... I always consider support,uptime and server speed depends on the site if i am running a media related site i always prefer that the server where my site is hosted able to manage requests and have good responce time. If running a small site or text based site that speed doesnt comes into play.

[fouad]

The hosts with good uptime record,active support,large bandwidth and affordable rates etc., could be considered as a good host.

[webhosting.uk.com]

Avoid hosting companies offering unlimited space or bandwidth b'coz unlimited is not possible in any aspect of life and there is nothing without limits. The term unlimited is only a marketing strategy go through the TOS of companies offering unlimited space or bandwidth and you will find some restrictions after all nothing in the world is unlimited.

[HostQuack]

A good host would be 24/7 support and atleast 99% uptime.

[monaghan]

Originally Posted by HostQuack

A good host would be 24/7 support and atleast 99% uptime.

Why? Surely a good host has quality support when you need it, anyone can hire a 24/7 support ticket service so that you get an answer 24/7, a good host will give you the answer you need within a reasonable timeframe.

Uptime, 99% is a bit low, 99.5% or better is needed for 24/7 web operation, 100% is the ideal when your business depends on it, however, true 100% uptime (rather than a cPanel box that's not crashed yet) comes at a price

[DotNOC]

Good Hosting = Satisfied Customers
Bad Hosting = Unsatisfied Customers

The only Parameter that is above all.

[HostQuack]

Im definitely going with good fast support!