PHP Mysql Hosting
A good and reliable web hosting plays a vital role to promote your website. Web hosting is a very competitive field so the price just keeps getting lower and lower. It is so easy to find cheap web hosting for PHP and MySQL
We you are looking a PHP and MySQL web hosting you should analyze following things for your web hosting:
- PHP and MySQL versions
If a web hosting company say that they support PHP 5 make sure it's the latest version not the 5.0.1 version. Some web hosting companies offer PHP 4 and PHP 5 in same platform according to your website version requirements. Same thing for MySQL but with an extra precaution. Some webhosting companty only support MyISAM tables, so if you need InnoDB make sure you ask if it's available. - htaccess support
When you are looking a web hosting for your php website you should see that hosting company supports htaccess file, mode_rewrite. Most php websites require htaccess for seo friendly urls, some php settings. - Connection speed
When you are looking a web hosting for your php website you should see that company have fast connection speed, all companies claim but you have to test it to believe it. - Data transfer
When you just started a website it doesn't matter much. But as your website grows you have to make sure you have enough bandwidth. One or two gigabytes (Gb) per month is more than enough for most web sites - Access to raw log file and online statistics (log file analyzer)
If you are serious in building a website, for commercial purposes for example, this is very critical. You can discover a lot of information from log files how many people visited your website, top keywords used to find your website. Most of companies offer awstats, webalyzer and last visit - Storage space
Measure your own website, start small but leave room for expansion. For a small website 15 megabytes is plenty but most companies offer space more than 250MB. - Customer support
They have to be there when you need them, period. Try asking some questions before you decide to go with a hosting company. If it takes more than 24 hours for them to reply then find another host. - User Friendly Control Panel
Control panel means where you can configure your website, using control panel you can see your website statistics, upload your database, upload files, make email accounts. companies mostly offer cpanel, plesk, vdeck. most companies offer cpanel web hosting, some companies offer plesk web hosting but cpanel is user friend ly. - Website Uptime
Web hosting companies claims they have 99.9% website uptime but you should check reviews about companies whose uptime is good because if uptime is bad, it can effect on your website
A lot of companies offer free web hosting but it have many drawbacks like
- If you signed up for free web hosting, they bound you banner advertisement on your website, it can effect on your website and your website performance may slow.
- Free hosting usually have lots of restriction so you really can't do much experiment like opening a socket connection and stuff like that
- Free Web hosting comapnies offer limited features
- Free webhosting can terminate your account any time.
So Dont depend free hosting services, find a good reliable hosting. A lot of companies offer shared web hosting that you can upload multiple sites. Some companies offer Website templates, seo tools, free php script in their hosting account, it is a big deal.
