Top 10 Questions : Hosting Needs
By answering the 10 questions below, you’ll get a picture of what hosting you need, and therefore you’ll better understand which sections of this article fit your project.
Question 1: What type of site am I creating?
That’s the question that starts. Different types of sites, such as WordPress, Ghost, or static HTML, require different technical approaches to web hosting. Before you start, it’s critical to know what your site will be created on. In the next section, we’ll discuss the most common types of sites in more detail.
Issue 2: What are the technical requirements for my site?
Once you’ve figured out the type of site, you need to make a complete list of the technical requirements for the site; programming language or type of databases. Just below, we’ll look at the requirements for the main types of sites.
question 3: What level of security do I need?
Most sites require a minimum level of protection, but there are certain types of sites whose security should be given special attention. If you process customers’ credit card data on your website or store their personal data, such as passwords, mail, you need to make some effort to ensure that user data is secure.
question 4: Do I need mail on hosting?
Do you want to create an email attached to your contact@yourdomain.com-type domain? If so, do you want your hosting to handle your mail rather than a third-party provider? If you want, you need to check whether hosting is right for your requirements.
question 5: Will I need to run several sites?
Do you want to host only one site or more? If there are several sites, will they be stored on sub-domains like myoth.mydomain.com or does each site need its own top-level domain of mydomian.com type? And what are the requirements for another site, such as an additional database?
question 6: How much data will I store and process?
The bandwidth requirements for your host are not only traffic, but also file size. The larger the file size, the more space and bandwidth your hosting needs. For example, sites with mostly textual data need less space and bandwidth, and sites with more high quality images need more space.
question 7: What kind of traffic can you initially expect?
Almost all hostings are tiered and handle different traffic streams. Most new sites will have low traffic. However, if you know that your start-up traffic will be high, you need to make sure that your hosting will be able to handle.
issue 8: What traffic can you expect in the future?
Even if you expect your start-up traffic to be low, do you have a clear plan for uplifting this traffic? If there is, you need to think through this plan, which will increase the capabilities of your site over time.
question 9: How much will I spend per month?
You don’t need to know the exact figure you’ll spend on hosting, but you should have at least a rough idea. If your budget is limited, you will have to prepare yourself for the fact that you will give up various bells and whistles. If you have a more flexible budget, you can benefit from a variety of bonuses. Below we will also say about the price levels of different types of hosting.
question 10: What technical problems can I solve?
Almost any site can be created without much experience, but individual maintenance tasks require different levels of technical knowledge. If you’re confident enough, you can solve problems like running your own server. If you’re a less confident user, you’ll probably want to find a full service where everyone will do for you. We’ll tell you more about this below.
