~Vex

What are questions you as rule ask web hosting company before sign up?
Can you share them here please?

inter-viewer

The questions which are worth asking are:
1) The type of servers your account is going to be hosted on and the number of accounts on the server;
2) The type of panel installed and possible tuts on using it;
3) Is ssh access given on request?
4) Check possible restrictions on the type of content placed;
5) Is there any limitations on the number of simultaneous MySQL connections;
6) Check your host's abuse policy, that's very essential, my hosting provider Ahosting.biz keeps this included into their Legal docs
http://www.ahosting.biz/legal/rap.html
I hope this will be helpful.

joice

Not all the companies offer Resource Abuse Policy, that's really good of your host to offer this to let clients know before they sign how much of server resources they could expect to use.

I'm wondering how many simultaneous MySQL connections are allowed by ahosting.biz on their shared plans?

Frank

I will definitely ask about existing hosting plans and what a monthly price for them is. Then I will put forward a question concerning additional means (domain name control panel, FTP, Shell access, PHP, MySQL, cron, backup). And after that, of course, I will inquire about package includes that is disk space, bandwidth, mailboxes POP3, total domains and subdomains and databases. And if my memory doesn`t fail me))), I will also get to know if there is a discount for buying domain name, when you are already using hosting company`s service.

FindMyHost

One question that doesn't typically get asked prior to purchasing hosting is: Are prices subject to price increases?

In recent years, I've seen a few hosts who decided to increase pricing on their existing customers - for various reasons. This does not usually work out good for the host and puts the customer in a bad position for having to either eat the price hike or move to another web host. To avoid any problems, look for a web host who offers a price freeze guarantee.

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FindMyHost, Inc.
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Dop

You need an algorithm for choosing the right web host.
This is an important decision and you don’t want to charge in blindly.
You should notice the possession of fully redundant data centers.
Hosting plans and prices for them.
Stability
Flexibility
Reputation
Reliablity
Etc.

adminranger

My biggest thing is back end support and uptime.
Most Hosts these days are running 99.9% uptime so the back end support is my main issue. The other stuff you can generally find out on their landing pages

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