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What makes you change from one hosting service to another? Or in a reciprocal question, what makes you stick in one hosting service? According to my research based on my personal experiences and other webmasters, there are several parameters which used by webmasters to decide whether they change to another hosting service or not. I hope my compilation here will help you to decide which one is the best for you.

First important parameter for me and lot of webmasters is percentage of uptime server. Between 98% until 99.9% uptime server is very good. On the other hand, for me, 80% uptime service itself is unacceptable, it causes me losing my potential visitors. You can use various site which provide monitoring service to your site for free out there.

Another important parameters which should be different between hosting service providers are space and bandwidth allocated. Even always variation in each hosting package in one provider. As a webmaster, you should know what you need and have a calculation about your visitors. For example, you will host data storage site which cost you more space and of course your money. You should pick the package with huge amount of space and bandwidth. Even if you just host simple blog but you have high daily visitors and page views, you should prepare with high bandwidth package. That’s why estimating your visitors also useful for you.

Features are also have influence to me to decide which one is the better to choose. For business purpose, features such CGI access, Real Video, Real Audio, MySQL, and Cold Fusion are really important. Or if you use your site for ecommerce purpose, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) also really important. Hosting providers usually have a list of feature do they offer to us. Don’t forget also another standard features such as control panel, installation software (Fantastico), Ruby, Perl, addon domain, subdomain etc.

The vital factor for us to pick the suitable web hosting services are price and customer service. Choose the service which have 24/7 online costumer service. It will help you a lot when you have technical problem. And since you have only limited budget, you really have to keep on eye about the price. You should find the best business web hosting that’s affordable here.