Many buyers go to find hosting without even having a clear idea of what they need, before starting your search prepare a list of everything you think you need should include as much
information as you can: Disk space, transfer, supported scripting languages ( PHP, ASP, Perl, etc.) databases (Mssql, MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle, Access, etc) mail accounts, multidomain support, etc.
If you are not sure how much transfer you will need here you will find a calculator that will help you http://www.numion.com/Calculators/ServerReq.html
2- Appearance of the provider's website:
Does the website look professional? or rather it seems to be done by an amateur, although everything that glitters is not gold, the appearance of a website can give you some indication of what you can find more inside, if the appearance is unprofessional there is a high possibility of that really are.
3 - Contact information:
Have all the information contacted. You must verify that your website includes some things like: Legal Name of the Company (If you do not have it, it is likely that it is NOT a legally constituted company), physical contact address, telephone number, etc. If this information does not appear, it means that they do not want to be located, which is suspicious. Serious companies and businesses always want to be located by their clients and potential clients.
4- Information about the company:
Take the time to search and read the company's info, especially looking for data such as: years in the business, customer references, etc. If you do not have this information available, you can ask for it to sales personnel.
5- Support Site:
The website of the company can be very nice but once you hire it will not do you any good, visit the support site and verify that you have enough information, manuals, tutorials, customer forums, ways to contact the support, etc.
6- Reputation of the provider:
To see the reputation of a provider, we will use two sources of information:
a) Specialized forums on the subject of hosting: Webhostingforo.com, Forosdelweb.com and webhostinghispano.com, in them you can find a lot of information about any provider.
b) Search in google: visit google.com and write the url of the provider in quotation marks example: "miproveedor.com" and google will return a mine of valuable information, take the time to read some of the results, many will be just garbage but you can also find valuable information.
Check if they are who they say they are:
Whois is a tool used to find information about a domain, it is useful to see who is the real owner of the domain, time of registration, physical address, etc. To make a whois from a supplier, simply follow the following link: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=proveedor.com replaces "proveedor.com" with the provider's domain
8- A look at your DNS:
Now we will make a DNS to your dns this will show you valuable information and you can even know if it is a reseller of another company (Note: There is nothing wrong with hiring a reseller, but if it is good to know who is your provider, nothing is worth the reseller is very good and professional if the company that gives the service is not) to verify the dns of the provider just follow the link: http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsre...in = domain.com (change domain.com for the domain of the provider)
9 - Knowing your duties and rights:
All suppliers have policies and contracts that regulate the relationship between the company and the clients, you should look for that information and read it carefully, pay special attention to the following details: Money back policies, guaranteed uptime, service level, allowed contents, and privacy policies. You must bear in mind that when hiring you are accepting each one of the conditions whether you read them or not.
10 - Measuring the supplier's speed:
These simple tests will give a general idea of the performance of the company's servers: The first test will be to measure the speed of response of the provider's dns, this is a very important value since many times when one of your visitors writes in their browser tudominio.com the dns server of your provider will be consulted and we want it to respond as quickly as possible. To do this test just visit http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnstim...nio.com&type=A (replace domain.com with the provider's domain) You will see a large red letter scales from A + (better ) to F (worse).
The following test is a simple ping, that to avoid distortions of our local network we will do it from http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ping.ch?ip=dominio.com (Once again you must replace dominio.com with the domain of the provider, the results can vary greatly where a shorter time always
