In the wake of searching for the most appropriate web hosting plan for your site, you might realise that you are inundated with choices in terms of not only web hosting service providers but also various web hosting services and plans. On the one hand, it is good to have a wide range of options to choose from, but on the other hand it can land you in conundrum. The availability of too many web hosting plans, leaves you in a quandary with regard to whether to opt for a web hosting service that is extremely affordable but isn’t feature-rich or select a plan where you might have to compromise a bit on the price but the plan offers you everything that you need for the seamless online availability of your website. Should you prioritize the affordability of the plan over the presence of extensive features or vice versa? Let us help you make this important decision.
Web Hosting Plans
Web hosting
plans, which are meant for rendering your site accessible online and for
keeping it up and running uninterruptedly, are offered by various website
hosting companies and can be availed as Shared Hosting, Dedicated Hosting,
Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Cloud Hosting, etc. Different
types of web hosting services exist to fulfil the hosting requirements of
different types of sites, as well as to cater to different budgets of the site
owners. This gives rise to the tug of war between two important criteria for
selecting web hosting plans; price and features. Before we delve deeper into
it, let us discuss briefly how web hosting works.
In website
hosting, server space, along with all the necessary technologies and services
are provided for the hosted sites to become accessible to online website
visitors. The web servers that are made available through this service, store
the files of websites. These files are retrieved by various web browsers of
different Internet users. At this stage the websites become accessible to site
visitors. Hence, it is essential for every website to avail the service of website
hosting. It needs to be mentioned here that you should always opt for web
hosting provided by a reputed and professional service provider, such as HTS Hosting, that has earned the
reputation of being the best Website Hosting
Company, owing to the high quality of service which it has been
offering at budget-friendly prices.
Essential
Features in Web Hosting Plans
Before opting for
any web hosting service, you must ascertain the presence of some essential
features in it. Let us elaborate on these features, which every web hosting
plan must provide for the seamless availability of the hosted site and for its
efficient functioning and excellent performance. Here’s a list of some of the
main features.
- High uptime- The purpose of developing any site and availing the service of web hosting to render the site accessible online, is to increase reach by getting more and more site visitors and expand customer base for business sites. That is why every site needs to be seamlessly accessible and to ensure this you need to avail such web hosting service that offers high uptime. The higher the uptime, the more online availability of your site, as your site will be up and running continuously and will remain accessible to Internet users.
- Fast Page Loads – Every website aims at delivering the best user experience of the site to its visitors. Web pages that load quickly offer a positive user experience and contribute significantly in ensuring site revisits. It is recommended that you opt for web hosting plans that offer fast speed as well as use SSDs (Solid-state Drives).
- Secure Hosting – Ensuring that you have availed a secure web hosting service is extremely important, especially when cybercriminals are lurking in the cyberspace to exploit security vulnerabilities. You should make sure that your hosting provider follows all the best practices with regard to secure hosting and is not only well-quipped in this regard but also works proactively to maintain and enhance the security of the provided services. Every reliable hosting service provider has a team of experts that is well versed in matters pertaining to the security of its servers as well as of the entire service that is being provided.
- Round-the-clock
Technical Support – Technical support that is available
immediately and which is proficient enough to resolve quickly the issue that
you are experiencing in your service, goes a long way in ensuring that the
downtime of your site can be kept at a minimum. The availability of expert
technical support helps to resolve your hosting-related issues without much
delay and is instrumental in keeping your site available online uninterruptedly.
Apart from the
aforementioned features, you should ensure that the plan that you are
purchasing offers at least the following features-
Sufficient bandwidth
for your site’s effective functioning
- User-friendly control panel
- Data backup facility
- Softaculous
- SSL certificates
One important
fact that usually gets overlooked has to do with your service provider having
its own data centre. Providing service directly from a data centre definitely
adds to the efficiency and credibility of the web hosting service. Let us take
the example of HTS Hosting to understand the importance of this feature.
HTS Hosting
operates from its state-of-the-art, fully-equipped data centre, which houses
its powerfully configured web servers. When you avail any web hosting plan of
HTS, you know that your service provider is not relying on some other company
for its infrastructure requirement. Hence, it is in a position to take every
necessary step to fulfil and deliver what it has committed, in terms of the
quality of service that will be provided to you. The web servers of HTS Hosting
are maintained and managed by our team of technical experts. This ensures that all
our servers are always up and running at fast speed and you can rely on our
servers for the peak performance of your site. Moreover, our ever-vigilant team
works proactively to keep the servers as well as the hosting environment fully
secure. In case of any technical issue, which we get informed about, our team
is available to fix it immediately as the servers are owned and managed by HTS
itself. The advantages of availing hosting service from a service provider that
functions from its own data centre are in plenty. Hence, it is recommended that
you avail service from a web hosting company that not only provides the best
quality of service, along with all the aforementioned essential features in its
web hosting plans, but also operates from its data centre.
Price
Vs. Features
If you have to
choose between a plan that is low-priced but lacks the essential features that
have been mentioned and one that has those features and more but is priced slightly
higher; it is advisable that you opt for a web hosting service/plan which is
feature-rich. That is because it is the features provided in your website
hosting plan which will determine the performance of your site. At the end of
the day, it is your site’s performance that matters the most and its seamless,
secure availability at fast speed to the site visitors. This can be ensured
only by a plan which is equipped with all the necessary features which are
meant for this purpose. Here, it needs to be mentioned, that you should always consider
your site’s hosting requirements, and opt for a plan that best meets these
requirements. To digress, HTS Hosting prioritizes your convenience in this
regard, and makes sure that our cordial and well-trained customer care
executives are always available to assist you in selecting the most appropriate
plan, based on your specific hosting requirements and budget.
Budget is
definitely an important factor to consider, while opting for web hosting but if
the choice is between price and features, then you would be better off
prioritizing features over price.
The good news is that
when you avail any of the efficient and affordably priced web hosting services
of HTS Hosting, you will never have to choose between price and features. We
are committed to providing our global customers top-tier service through our
budget-friendly web hosting plans. Our extensive experience in web hosting
makes us fully aware of the hosting requirements for various types of websites.
This knowledge has aided us in designing such web hosting plans which are full
of features for your site’s top-class performance and are available at prices
that are well within everyone’s budget. The Shared Hosting plans of HTS Hosting
start at Rs.31/month and these plans
include free SSL certificates. Our other
hosting services for Linux and Windows are also affordably priced and full of
features.
HTS Hosting
operates from its data centre to offer an exceptional quality of fully secure
hosting service that perpetually delivers high uptime and fast page loads and
keeps your site always accessible to site visitors. Our wide range of feature-rich
hosting plans, which is available at massively discounted prices, makes sure
that you get the perfect combination of both, affordability and features, in
your web hosting package.
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