What to consider before hosting your website and Application in 2024

You have developed your beautiful website, or you have hired a developer to design your website. You just received an email the project is done and now you are looking for a hosting provider to host your website.

What are the things you need to consider before hosting your website in 2024? I have compiled these factors to consider before choosing the best hosting provider for your website or application.

  1. Shared or VPS Server:  A lot of our clients often ask if they need to have a shared server or VPS (Virtual Private Server). However, any you choose can work depending on your needs and your project size.

Shared Hosting

Shared Hosting means that you are sharing the server with other websites. Take an example of renting a full house where each one owns a portion of a room with different keys that help you to enter exactly your room, not someone’s room in the same house.

Shared servers are often used by the biggest percentage of websites and applications that serve a smaller number. However, depending on your hosting provider, they can provide you with enough portion in terms of storage.

Shared servers tend to be cheaper compared to dedicated or VPS servers because they come pre-installed with scripts that you often use like Softacolous that you can use to install a lot of software like WordPress, Sitepad, WHMCS or any software that your hosting provider supports. This means that you will need a lot of subscriptions to use the shared server hosting. AppNomu provides shared server hosting at $4.99/Month.

Shared servers on the other hand are easy to maintain, all security measures are the responsibility of the hosting provider. However, they do maintain a lot of security on the shared server because the hosting provider will not let anything stop the server from powering other websites.

However, shared servers can turn out to have some disadvantages, because you are sharing the server with other websites, expect your website to be slow sometimes because your hosting provider can host a lot of websites on the same server. You also get limited access to the server. If you use heavy programs that need directly installed on the server, this is impossible on the shared server.

VPS(Virtual Private Servers)

With Virtual private servers or dedicated servers, you own the entire server, and you have full control to the server. This is best for bigger businesses that expected a lot of traffic and website owners who do not want to share their server. The biggest advantage of this is that you can do anything you want with your server if you are experienced. The bad side is that this comes at a higher cost compared to a shared server and, you need to use extra tools like the Control panel and database installation which comes at another cost. You need to have an experienced engineer to manage the whole setup for your server.

I recommend choosing VPS because it gives maximum capacity to your website, and you have full control over your website.

AppNomu provides both shared Hosting and VPS to host your website and application at a good price compared to other website hosting providers.

If you are looking to host your website, look at a provider who can offer you a VPS hosting.

2. Storage

When it comes to Storage, each hosting provider provides different storage, some shared hosting supports unlimited storage and others will not be able to provide this. However, if you choose the VPS, they do not come with unlimited storage. Storage enables you to store your website files on the server.

For example, if you upload a website with videos, images and all the content, they need storage on the server. I would recommend choosing the service provider who can provide you with unlimited storage, so you do not have to worry about the storage for your website files

AppNomu provides 12GB SSD storage to the starter package at $12/Year and will provide you with unlimited SSD storage with other packages. However, if you are looking for reliable storage technology, I recommend choosing the NVME over other old version storage technology.

3. SSL Certificate

You might have seen a green padlock in the browser while accessing other websites and a website warning like this website is not secure. To make sure you surf in the safe encrypted environment, every website needs to have an SSL Certificate installed. However, some Hosting providers do not provide free SSL certificates as this can come at an extra cost. Each browser you use will only accept websites with SSL certificates to encrypt the client’s information from the website owner.

I would recommend you consider the hosting provider that provides unlimited free SSL certificates as this will help save you from the extra cost that can come up with the hosting fee.

At AppNomu, we  provide Unlimited free SSL Wildcard SSL certificates so you do not need any extra fee to purchase the SSL certificate

4. Ram and Nodes

Ram helps your website either to load faster or slower depending on the amount of Ram that your hosting provider supports. The Nodes are the devices that transmit data over a network. I recommend you consider choosing a website hosting provider who can offer you the recommendable 8GB RAM for your website and Unlimited nodes to help your website load very fast on any internet connection.

5. Customer Support

Sometimes, things go wrong, and you need to talk to a human agent to provide you an upper technical hand. Most hosting providers do provide related to only hosting and will not help you with other technical questions that require software engineers.

Choose a website hosting provider who offers both email support and live chat support so that they can help you anytime you have technical challenges with your hosting information.

At AppNomu, you get world-class 24/7 support through Live chat and email support for any technical issue and we do offer free website migration from your previous hosting provider.

6. Pricing

Pricing is something you need to consider before choosing any service and product and the same applies to choosing the best website hosting provider. I have seen a lot of website hosting companies that will offer you good, discounted pricing for the first year and will then hike you a lot of charges for the next renewal.

You should choose a hosting provider who does not hike pricing for your website. If you are looking for an affordable website hosting company, AppNomu is the most affordable website hosting company with good pricing.

There are so many considerations you need to make before deciding where to host your website. However, I hope the most common considerations can help you choose the right hosting provider for your project.

I hope to see your next project online, can you please let us know in the comment section where you host your website from and what factors you considered before making a purchase.