Let’s talk about your new web hosting provider, what to look for and differences between cheap and more expensive options.
Type “web hosting” into the web search, and you will find many hosting providers advertising how superior they are compared to others. The truth is all providers have a number of available servers and storage space within the data centre where they are located. Saying that you will find hosting services described as shared hosting or dedicated hosting. Each of them has pros and cons related to speed, cost and services provided within the hosting plan. Shared hosting will be relatively cheaper due to shared resources and divided costs between physical server users. Dedicated hosting will be provided only to one user, and whole resources like CPU, memory and bandwidth speed will be dedicated only to that one user.
That is not only one topic you need to look into. If you decide to use shared hosting, you need to compare, if possible, resources available within the hosting plan, available memory for PHP scripts, executing times and available connections. Those pieces of information are not advertised often, as they more likely will be limited for each user to balance out physical server capabilities within users’ accounts. Those limits will have an impact on your website performance; for example, if you use WordPress, you may receive a timeout screen as processing the PHP script took too long and it closed down the connection.
Many cheap offers are designed for simple static websites and will have poor performance if used as hosting for more demanding websites and e-commerce. It is crucial to make the right choice to host a website within the right hosting plan. Site Sphere will provide you with the correct setup within the server configuration so your website will not time out with an error, and you can expect good performance under most basic web hosting plans. Our shared web hosting plans are designed to perform with high network speed and our data centres are located in Europe and the UK. Our shared hosting is not overcrowded; to cut costs, it’s designed to work with performance with limited users.