Common Web Hosting Challenges and How to Overcome Them

If you’re planning to create your first website, you need to be crystal clear on exactly what you’re driving towards. There is a whole host of decisions that you need to make for your business– right from the designing and development to the content and search engine optimization activities of your website. However, one area that businesses shouldn’t forget to focus on is ‘who their hosting partner is’. 

Getting stuck with a bad website hosting vendor – that demands hefty investments, and in return, delivers poor quality service – can tarnish your business repute and throw you out of the market. Thus, before they convince you to sign the dotted line for their dedicated server hosting plan, ensure the matter-of-factness and capabilities of the chosen partner.

Cost, bandwidth, scalability, and security are some of the crucial factors that every entrepreneur should keep in their priority list before making the final call.

This blog outlines some of the major challenges that webmasters are acquainted and their remedies:

Security: One of the most important things when it comes to selecting a web host is determining what preventive measures the provider follows to protect your website against susceptibilities. A number of hosting vendors available are today, ranging from those who offer server space, bandwidth, and connectivity leaving the security as your responsibility, to those who work on stringent security modules, traffic monitoring, daily malware scanners and denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation techniques. A website that lacks proper security is a failed website. Not to mention, compromised network security can lead to loss or breach of hosted data.

Make sure that the provider’s data center facility is equipped with technologies that restrict access to your hosted website and offer service level agreements with respect to response times, whenever a breach is discovered. In addition, consider the below checklist:

Backup Facility: Over the period of time, enterprise data has grown substantially.  With the instances of cybercrime at their peak, it becomes immensely important to have backup and restoration facility active round the clock. It goes without saying that the loss of critical data will have a substantial impact on organizations of all sizes, and could be a reason behind the collapse of a business. That’s why, every business leader should see that their service provider has taken the backup of your website(s). Ensure that your service provider has an influential disaster recovery plan, which includes taking backup of your website on regular intervals. 

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Business Availability:  Today’s data centers have become lifeblood of organizations, supporting varied demands of different sectors. With critical applications and services being deployed to provide the foundation for mundane business operations and delivery of end-to-end user services, the data centers must deliver uninterrupted network availability and meet service level agreements. Any downtime can cost loss of millions of dollars. In order to ensure proper functioning of a data center server, it is important that they encompass strategies and standard solutions that prevent outages and ensure business continuity. When a user visits your website and experiences an error message or a blank screen, it leaves a bad impression on end-users. According to reports, users never turn back to a website that takes extended time to load or experiences frequent downtime issues. Select a service provider that provides 99.95%-100% network uptime, which is backed by a stringent SLA. 

Scalability Matters A Lot: Besides security, availability, and backup – scalability is one such factor that if not considered before the sign up process will ruin your online presence. Scalability is important for many organizations.  A data center provider should have a width of services to offer and support business growth. The facility must be equipped with elastic infrastructure that can provide seamless support for quick upgrades and accommodate growth. 

Let’s say, if you start off with a shared hosting plan, and with the increase in traffic flow, you decided to move to the upgraded or the most secured dedicated hosting platform. What if, you come to know that service provider has only limited services to offer and can’t support your website popularity? Switching to another provider will be the only choice left before you, but this may cause disturbance in ongoing business operations. Ensuring this will save your capital, time, and efforts. Select a service provider that allows you to upgrade over time whenever your business demands it. 

Technical Support: Technical emergencies arrive without making any prior proclamations. At times, a website may encounter service interruptions, this, in turn, demands the support of professionals, who can access and fix it without any delay. Thus, it is important to seek a hosting provider who offers free support, 24 hours a day.

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Taiba Fatima is a Delhi, India based content writer with a knack for technical writing. Her alacrity to explore new horizons and learn technological advancements add piquancy to her writing profession. Apart from technology, she is a passionate blogger and loves to write about other verticals including: BPO sector, Travel, Art & Culture.