If you are an Indian and have been searching for a web hosting solution, I am sure you would have spent quite sometime trying to find the best possible hosting solution for your website or blog. Now, first things first: there are very few hosting providers here in India who provide you great value for your money.
Forget the most popular ones like Net4india , Rediff and Indiatimes – pathetic is not the word I would like to use here, but that is exactly how I feel.
No reliability, no customer support, high prices for absolutely no range of services. Ruled out. Period.
Since it is hosting and it is predominantly done online, I would recommend you forget about India and start looking across the internet for the best possible deal. Doing research is very critical since you really don’t want to end up in a rut having made an uninformed decision about choosing your web hosting provider.
You might not have known this, so take note of what you need to ask:
- The infrastructure: see if they have generators, servers and data centers to provide you the level of service that you expect. If you don’t know or if it is not mentioned on their website, just ask!
- Ask for the uptime guarantee because there is not point in having a website that is next to impossible to find.
- Look for back-up technology and find out if they give you a way to back up the contents of your site.
- Look out for the space and bandwidth considerations. One look across the Indian web hosting providers would prove to you beyond a measure of doubt that you’d never get the bargain that you are looking for.
- The web hosting industry across the world has come of age now and it is easy to easy different classifications of hosting today. Shared server hosting, collocation hosting, dedicated servers, customized hosting solutions and reseller hosting are just one of the few types of hosting and you would do well to find out what exactly you need.
Indian web hosting industry still has along way to go unlike those in the developed countries and the prices are still way too expensive in India than it is in the US, UK or Canada, funny though it might sound. The appalling thing about it all isn’t that the prices are high here than the fact that most of us don’t even realize that there are bigger and better bargains available if only one bothered to look yonder.
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I am Ashwin. I am a web-consultant, freelance writer, and an entrepreneur. I am also a Certified Behavior Analyst, speaker, and corporate trainer. I am an e-commerce enthusiast and an avid reader. When I am not working (which is rare), I travel around the world just for the sake of traveling.
