MYHOST‘s Hosting Guide to Avoiding Choosing Bad Web Hosting for Your Website Step by Step!

Want to know how you can choose to host a good website for the site you are going to create or for your current site?
In this guide, the MYHOST of Hosting will walk with you step by step in choosing the optimal hosting for your site or project… Let’s get started!

Do you want to choose the best web hosting?
The web hosting provider you choose for your site is a partner in your online project, and choosing a good web hosting is crucial to the success and continuity of your site.

Your hosting provider affects almost every dimension of your site, from the speed of the site to its security and the security of its users, and with a large number of potential options it becomes easy to fall into the trap of a bad web hosting provider.

We have been working at MYHOST Hosting for years to help the audience of our site to choose good hosting and avoid buying from a bad provider by educating readers and providing them with knowledge of the field of web hosting that enables them to determine which hosting is good from bad.

We also publish ratings and reviews of the most popular hosting providers, including the disadvantages and advantages in the service from the personal experience of the hosting MYHOST‘s team and the numbers and results of the tests we do on hosting.

Why Choose Good Web Hosting?

Choosing the right hosting provider isn’t just a technical decision – it’s a strategic decision that can shape the future of your online presence.

In the age of digitization, your website is often the first point of contact between your business and potential customers. It’s your digital storefront that always stays open, your customer service desk that never sleeps, your ambassador that reaches the whole world, and the marketing department that never tires of promoting your products and services to potential customers.

For these and other reasons, we at MYHOST Hosting always believe that the web hosting provider you choose for your site is, in our humble opinion, the foundation on which to build your digital strategy as a whole, without exaggeration..

Hence, the importance of choosing a reliable hosting company for your website becomes clear!

The Importance of Reliable Web Hosting

At MYHOST of Hosting, we always like to rely on real-life examples to explain so that it becomes easier for you to imagine it.

If we want to compare the importance of hosting to a site, imagine that your website is a high-speed train. In this case you can consider that his web hosting is the rails he walks on.

As you know, good rails are essential for a smooth and safe journey to your train, and a reliable Web Hosting Provider, or as it is commonly called in the Arab countries as a “web hosting company”, ensures that your website remains available, fast and secure. Unless there is a problem other than hosting of course!

Thus, the right hosting company can enhance the performance of your site,increase the speed of the site, improve its ranking in search engine results, and enhance the user experience as a whole.

Consequences of choosing a bad host

In contrast, a bad hosting choice can derail your efforts and investments in your site, leading to increased bounce rates (visitors leaving your site to visit a competing site), lack of profits, and tarnishing the reputation of the site as a whole that will avoid being visited by visitors if it appears to them again, which is of course something you don’t want.

The ramifications of choosing bad hosting are extensive. The slow loading of the site’s pages frustrates visitors, and the site stops working or unexpected errors appear to the visitor will lead to the loss of customers and sales.

In addition, in the worst-case scenario, security breaches (which may result from a hosting vulnerability) can put the sensitive data of the site and its users at risk, leading to legal problems and loss of customer trust.

These are not just inconveniences; they are critical failures that can cost you dearly in the short and long term. We have seen in the MYHOST of Hosting that this happens a lot to many sites that have suffered a lot of losses due to problems in hosting them, and the cessation of large social media platforms such as Facebook and others is strange to you, and certainly you as a user suffer from that downtime.

If you want to buy a product or service from an online store, for example, and the site stops while you are making the purchase. Won’t you think about buying from a competitor or will you feel that the site is unreliable?

How about if you are the owner of the store. Would you love it to happen to your customers? Of course not!

In order to avoid this, the team of the MYHOSTof Hosting will tell you the steps that will help you choose the best web hosting effortlessly, God willing.

How to Choose the Best Web Hosting

In order to avoid the mistake of choosing a bad web hosting provider, the team of the MYHOST of Hosting has prepared this simple guide that contains the steps you can follow as you search for the company that will host your website.

Our team made sure to simplify this explanation as much as possible, so we shortened the steps into only 3 main steps and each step is based on the previous step. We’ve broken down each step into several sub-items so it’s easy for you to group your ideas while following the instructions in the step.

The steps begin with determining exactly what your hosting needs are and what you expect from it. Then we touch on the next step, which is to search for the most prominent hosting candidates to host your site. In the last step, the MYHOST of Hosting explains how to filter the candidates and choose the best hosting among them, in addition to how you can reduce the hosting price as much as possible by taking advantage of the exclusive discount coupons offered by web hosting providers to the hosting MYHOST‘s audience.

Now let’s start with the first step…

1. Find out what you need from hosting

Understanding your and your site’s needs for a hosting service is the first step towards success in reaching good web hosting.

Before embarking on the journey of choosing a web hosting provider, it is first essential to understand your hosting needs. This basic step is similar to preparing a blueprint before building a home; it ensures that the structure will meet your expectations and serve its intended purpose effectively.

What kind and size is your website?

Select the type of website you are creating

Are you creating your own personal blog, a company or yourself site, or as we call it “portfolio”, or will you create an online store that sells products or services to users on the Internet?

Each type of site has its own web hosting needs that you should attach importance to when looking for hosting.

The MYHOST of Hosting has published special guides for the best hosting for different sites, which is a comprehensive guide to hosting this type of site and the best hosting services available to it, for example, you will find an e-store hosting guide as well as our guide on reseller hosting for those who want to redistribute hosting services to their customers, etc.

Estimate your expected traffic

Predict how many visitors your site will attract in a sufficient amount of time from its creation (we recommend in theMYHOST of Hosting to be at least a year) if it is a new site or rely on existing numbers if you want to move the site from one hosting to another.

Based on these estimates, you will have an estimate of the number of visitors that the hosting service should bear at least, so you will be able to determine the type of web hosting service that you will use, and you will also be able to determine the size of hosting resources that your website will need.

What are your site’s technical and technical requirements?

After you know your site’s hosting needs in terms of resources and type of hosting service, now you must know the technical requirements of the site that must be available in the hosting platform in order for the site to work.

What is a Website Content Management System (CMS)?

Most websites these days are created and worked using a content management system, which is a computer program that makes it much easier for you to create a website and manage the site and its content through an easy and simple user interface without entering into complications and without needing technical or programming knowledge in most cases.

One of the most prominent and common of these systems is WordPress, which is currently responsible for managing the content of about half of almost all Internet sites and we use it in the site of the MYHOST of Hosting as well. Among the most prominent are Joomla, Drupal, and other platforms?

Providing the hosting provider with a suitable and customized service for sites that use this system will help you and your site too, for example, using dedicated hosting for WordPress sites will provide seamless compatibility between hosting and the WordPress system, which will make the site faster and will give you greater flexibility in managing and controlling the site, and it will also make you get more specialized technical support, which means solving WordPress problems faster.

What programming languages and databases do you use on your site?

Almost all dynamic sites are a database controlled and operated by a computer program programmed using one or more programming languages. For the whole system to work, the hosting platform must support the database software used as well as the programming languages that were used to create the program.

Therefore, it is necessary to specify the programming languages that (x) your site uses, such as «PHP», «Python», «Ruby», etc., and the type of database or databases that will contain the site data, most notably «MySQL» and its alternative «MariaDB» and «Microsoft SQL Server) and others.

Why is scalability important?

Do you plan to grow your site in the future by adding new content or making advertising campaigns, for example, that bring more visitors?

If your answer is yes, it’s worth choosing hosting that has the potential to grow, as your site grows, so will your hosting needs.

Therefore, choosing a hosting provider that offers scalable solutions such as adding more resources or moving from a smaller hosting service such as shared hosting to a larger type such as using a VPS or even not relying on any shared service andbooking a dedicated server for yourself only, is something that must be taken into account to accommodate this growth without causing service interruptions.

Is hosting uptime vital or not?

Searching for a high uptime is very important for all sites, but some sites and not others need almost 100% uptime while some sites may not need this percentage.

A simple blog with dozens or hundreds of visitors a day won’t need premium hosting that almost never stops all year round (which comes at high prices, of course).

As for a site for a payment gateway such as «PayPal PayPal» or a large online store that has purchases every second, such as «Amazon», for example, it will affect them every second that the hosting stops and consequently the site does not work.

We recommend that you have a minimum uptime of 99.9% to ensure that your site remains available to users.

Therefore, when looking for web hosting for your site, you should choose the best web hosting that offers a suitable uptime for your needs.

As you saw above, by comprehensively understanding your site’s hosting needs, you’ll be able to make informed decisions that will benefit your site in the long run.

In this section, we’ve made sure that you can identify the key considerations you should keep in mind as you prepare to choose a web hosting provider. With this knowledge, you are well equipped to find a host that will support the success and growth of your site.

2. Find potential providers

Now that you have identified your site’s needs and your needs as well from your web hosting provider, now it’s your turn to take a tour of the market to see which potential web hosting companies you can buy from and choose the most suitable one for you.

Read reviews and ratings of hosting companies

In order to know the quality of any product or service, you need to try it with your hand, and since web hosting is a service and in most cases, it is not possible to know the quality of service without trying it and trying it means the following:

1. You’ll need to purchase web hosting.
2. Transfer your site to it or at least a copy of it in order to try it out.
3. Direct enough visitors to the hosting so that you know its endurance.
4. Test the same speed of hosting in responding to visitors, specifically peak visitor times.
5. Monitor the performance of the hosting for a long time and record its performance constantly (the quality varies from time to time negatively or positively).
6. Examine the hosting platform itself so that you know the technologies used and the limits of use set for its resources.
7. Test technical support and the speed of its response to requests and whether he has the ability, desire and knowledge to solve problems quickly or not.
8. Know the secrets that the hosting company hides, which will not appear until after purchase, and often only if you encounter a problem with it (for example: the limits of using the processor in the site ground).
9. Use specialized tools and services to monitor Uptime hosting working time around the clock and for a long time to know the rate at which it works.
10. Checking the security and protection of the hosting platform.

If you do all this correctly, however, you will not be able to determine the quality of hosting accurately because you often do not have the ability and knowledge to follow and monitor many hosts at the same time and continuously. In addition, the service may vary from user to user depending on the data center and theserver hosting the user’s data.

So what’s the solution?

MYHOST of Hosting… is the solution!… We do all of the above, specialize in it, compare different hostings, and constantly monitor their performance, and you can read more about how we evaluate hosting services..

Here you can find the best web hosting services this month in a list that we keep updated.

Check uptime and hosting speed logs

Hosting uptime and speed logs give you a look at its performance in numbers.

In the MYHOST of Hosting, we rely on statistics figures for the speed and time of the hosting service, and in the reviews of hosting companies on our site, you will find the numbers of the hosting work rate and speed in the last 12 months.

Compare potential hosting performance and ratings

After you look at the advantages and disadvantages of hosting at the MYHOST of Hosting website, compare the hosting, know the advantages and disadvantages of each web hosting provider, and determine whether the advantages that come with buying hosting are enough for you or not.

More importantly from our point of view: Can you afford the disadvantages of hosting, or will it pose a major problem or barrier to your use of it?

And now.. I think you were able to determine the best web hosting suitable for you by a large percentage!

3. Choose the right hosting service and package. At the lowest price!

Now that you’ve decided which provider is right for you, the final step is to buy hosting.

Know the hosting service you need

Most web hosting services offer more than one web hosting service to customers, which varies based on the type of site, the target customer, as well as the size of the site and the software tools used to create the site.

For example, there are shared hostings, which rely on server sharing between more than one user in order to reduce the costs and burdens of server care and maintenance both technically and financially.

Even this type, it is divided into subtypes, most notably shared web hosting, which is the most used service ever, and we also find VPS hosting that is often considered an upgrade to shared hosting.

If you want to take over the server only for yourself, you can buy a dedicated server that will ensure that no one shares the use of the server and its resources.

There are also other types of this service, and in order not to prolong you, the MYHOSTof Hosting has published a complete guide with a comparison between the different types of web hosting services and the advantages and disadvantages of each type, see it and you will be able to know the service you need, God willing, easily.

Choose the right package for you

As with hosting services, hosting often comes in the form of different packages (usually 3) and each plan differs from the other in the price, resources, and benefits offered by each of them. Based on the needs of your site and your needs. And your budget, of course! Choose the hosting plan that’s right for you.

The hosting MYHOST advises you to start small and then grow when needed! This is so you avoid paying for resources you don’t use.

When choosing, make sure that you choose a hosting plan that meets the needs of your site and more, not vice versa, so do not choose enough hosting for your needs, but make a reasonable amount of resources to meet growth.

If you need 50 GB of file storage, for example, do not buy a hosting plan that comes with only 50 or 60 GB capacity, but try to have a larger number than that in order to avoid the problems that may appear when you consume more resources than the hosting allows.

Look for some things in the hosting.And pay attention to some of them!

Before buying hosting, we advise you to pay attention to some things that you may think are sideways and do not need much attention. These include:

The myth of “unlimited” hosting

Some hosting says that they offer unlimited resources, and although it is a good thing, you should pay attention to the reality of this term as the hosting MYHOST previously explained the reality of unlimited hosting. Therefore, you should have realistic expectations for hosting resources and know that the term “unlimited” hosting is not realistic!

Refund Policies & Warranties

Many hosts offer guarantees to get your money back within a specific period of purchase if you don’t like the service, and some also offer periods to try the service for free without buying the hosting.

Despite the importance of these offers and policies, you should pay attention to the duration and conditions of the warranty, for example, there are services that are not included in the money-back guarantee, such as external and additional services anddomain registration. In your hosting company review, you’ll find that the hostingMYHOST s team is keen to mention warranty details and period so you have an idea of it.

Evaluate technical support according to your need

Despite the great importance of technical support, it is not important for all users from experience, as most Arab users, for example, are not interested in technical support over the phone, but what they care about most is support via live chat.

We also find that the need for the same level of technical support varies from one user to another, not all users have the same knowledge and experience, some of them can solve many problems and errors without the need to communicate with technical support, and vice versa.

Server locations and their impact

If you don’t know, the proximity of the server geographically to site visitors affects the speed of the site and depending on the ranking of the site in the results of search engines, so it is important to make sure to choose the right location for the server according to the audience of your site.

However, you should not know that from our experiences in the MYHOST of hosting, the server site does not affect the speed of the site significantly (unless the distance is very large and the Internet lines between the two sites are not direct or good). This is also more particularly important in the case of locations that target only a particular country or region.

We also remind you that using a CDN like Cloudflare or StackPath is often better, especially if you’re targeting audiences from more than one country or region.

Hosting security is non-negotiable

Don’t compromise on the security of your site under any circumstances, so you should take care of having basic security measures in web hosting such as SSL certificates, regular backups of files and databases, malware scanning etc.

Also, be careful not to leave your site in the hands of unreliable hosting or its continuity, which is the main reason why we at the MYHOST of Hosting do not nominate hosting providers who do not have an official presence on the ground and have not existed for years and do not have tens of thousands of users at least.

Read Terms of Service

It is essential that you understand the usage policies and conditions of the hosting service provider about the use of hosting resources, permitted content, etc. You should also know what fees the Company may charge you in certain cases and the restrictions it may impose on you as well.

Use MYHOST‘s Hosting Coupons

Before buying web hosting, you should know that a large number of hosts offer discounts and reductions from the prices of services.

At MYHOST Hosting, we have a set of exclusive discount coupons for many web hosting such as the Hostinger coupon,the Bluehost coupon and other companies, which gives you a discount on the value of the hosting purchase bill, not to mention the additional benefits such as getting a free domain with hosting, etc.

In the end, we hope that we have helped you choose the best web hosting for your project easily step by step.
And certainly do not forget that the team of the MYHOST of Hosting is available to help you, God willing, in choosing a good hosting for your site!