To come online and establish your identity, you need to buy a domain name and a web hosting plan from a web hosting provider.
A web hosting provider offers many types of web hosting plans to fulfill different needs of a variety of customers.
And, from this wide range of plans, you have to choose the best web hosting plan for your website. Selecting the best web hosting plan is important because your website will work best with a plan that perfectly meets its requirements.
There are some important things that you must consider to evaluate your specific requirements and choose the right web hosting plan accordingly.
Evaluate Your Website’s Requirements
It’s very important to evaluate the exact needs of your website because you cannot select the best plan without knowing what you need. So, evaluating your exact needs is of utmost necessity. To evaluate your needs, have clear answers to the following questions.
- What is the nature of your website? – Informational, business, photoblog, video-based, etc.
- How much traffic do you expect?
- How much resources (Webspace, Sub-domains, Bandwidth, Database, etc.) do you need?
After answering these questions, you will get a clear idea of your requirements and you can move on to evaluate and compare different web hosting plans.
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Web Hosting Plans at ZNetLive
ZNetLive offers different web hosting plans that are designed to cater to the different hosting needs of different type of customers. Let’s discuss each plan in detail and check which one is best for you.
Lite Plus:
This web hosting plan at ZNetLive is designed with most basic configuration and offers the resources required by a low traffic website.
Resources – 25 E-mail IDs, 2 GB Web space, 1 sub-domain, 1 MySQL Database, unlimited bandwidth and allows to host a single website.
Best for – Those who are just getting started with their website or running basic blogs, personal websites, and small business websites. Also, if do not have a clear idea of your requirements, go with this plan and upgrade later whenever your needs outgrow the limits of this plan.
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Silver:
The Silver web hosting plan is specifically designed for users with average needs and offers hosting resources to fulfill their basic needs.
Resources – Unlimited E-mail IDs, Web space, sub-domains, MySQL Database, bandwidth and allows to host a single website.
Best for – Those with average-sized websites with average resource requirements. This category includes active bloggers, personal and business websites attracting average traffic.
Silver Plus:
The Silver Plus plan is designed keeping in mind the specific requirements of businesses and provides everything that a business may need for successful online operations.
Resources – Unlimited E-mail IDs, Web space, sub-domains, MySQL Database, bandwidth and allows to host up to 10 websites.
Best for – This business special plan is best suited for business websites of SMBs, professionals, freelancers, etc. And, it is most suitable for hosting a single heavy-trafficked website or multiple websites attracting average traffic.
Gold:
ZNetLive’s Gold hosting plan is the ultimate shared web hosting plan that is very feature rich and comes with maximum resources in the shared hosting category.
Resources – Unlimited E-mail IDs, Web space, sub-domains, MySQL Database, bandwidth and also allows to host unlimited websites.
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Best for – Those whose websites attract very high visitor traffic and need good amount of resources to handle it. It includes popular websites that are very informative or e-commerce websites. It is also best for businesses which are growing very fast and have scaling needs.
Select an Upgradable Plan
It is very important that the plan you select is upgradable to a higher plan, so that whenever you exceed the limits of your current plan, you can upgrade. All the web hosting plans at ZNetLive are upgradable and can be upgraded easily whenever the need arises.
When do I Need to Upgrade?
It is important to know the right time to upgrade and for this ZNetLive has requisite measures in place to let you know.
However, you should also keep monitoring your website and your control panel (cPanel) dashboard regularly to monitor “CPU Usage”, as it is an indicator of the amount of resources your website is using.
If it regularly gets too high, then it is an indication that now is the right time to upgrade as you should keep some margin to accommodate for heavy traffic in peak times.
Explore More Options
Apart from shared web hosting plans, there are some more options available which you shall explore, if your website needs exceed limits or have some special needs.
You may need them, if you are running a big e-commerce, video streaming, gaming or a WordPress website.
These websites may also run on shared hosting plans, but for best performance, you must use either VPS hosting or dedicated hosting or WordPress hosting.
VPS Hosting:
VPS hosting offers more security, resources, and freedom to run any kind of software. It offers a perfect environment for some sites with specific needs like video and audio streaming, gaming, e-commerce, etc. VPS hosting even offers more flexibility and scalability in terms of resource utilization.
To know more about VPS hosting, read Why VPS is Right for Your Business?
Dedicated Hosting:
Dedicated servers are best options when you are running a large scale business or e-commerce website and you need complete solitude and best server security.
Dedicated hosting offers ultimate hosting resources that can handle the heaviest website traffic.
To know more about dedicated servers, read 5 Differences between Cloud and Dedicated Servers.
WordPress Hosting:
WordPress hosting is specially optimized for WordPress environment and thus provides a far superior performance for a WordPress website than shared hosting.
Services ZNetLive offers:
To know more, read 5 Key Benefits of Using WordPress Hosting over Shared Hosting?
Finally, choosing the right web hosting plan is a very critical decision, so use these tips and wisely choose the best one for your website.
In case, there is any confusion or query about choosing a perfect web hosting plan, do share it in the comments section below.
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- Why VPS is Right for Your Business?
- 5 Differences between Cloud and Dedicated Servers
- 5 Key Benefits of Using WordPress Hosting over Shared Hosting?
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