Affordable Dedicated Hosting
Today, affordable windows dedicated hosting is easy to find. However, it is important to make sure that a cheap price tag will not mean that you will have to sacrifice quality or service. In this article, we will discuss the aspects to consider for an affordable yet quality dedicated hosting package.
The fist aspect is the monthly fee. Some of the lowest fees are $50 per month. If you want the real deal, you also need to ensure that a low monthly fee does not come with a high setup fee. Some companies charge as much as $200 for setup.
An affordable price may require you to compromise on certain server capabilities. For instance, you may be offered a lower bandwidth (1000 GB instead of 2000 GB), a smaller hard drive space (250 GB instead of 1000 GB), or smaller RAM (1024 MB instead of 2048 MB). The hard drive space and RAM cannot be exceeded “accidentally”, but the bandwidth can. If you exceed the predefined bandwidth, you can be billed for overage at a higher rate. This may defeat the whole purpose of affordable hosting, so make sure to have enough bandwidth in your package.
Another aspect to consider is the server management and administration. Even though you are likely not to have physical access to your server, you are likely to be provided with a web-based control panel to administer your server. Alternatively, the management tasks can be performed by the server personnel. You will need to find out what the case is with the server that you are considering using, since proper server management is very important for its smooth operation.
The next point to consider is the physical location of your server. This is a commonly underestimated aspect, which often tends to lead to some unpleasant consequences. The first problem is a slower page load time that the visitors of your website may experience. The explanation is simple – if your visitors are in the US and your server is in the UK or Canada, the visitors will need to wait until their request reaches the other country and then returns to the country of origin.
The second issue can be lower Google rankings of your site. If Google sees a website hosted in the UK or Canada, it will rank it higher in google.co.uk or google.ca, at the same time ranking it lower in google.com. Therefore, if the majority of your customers will be searching for your site through google.com, it makes sense to get servers in the US.
The server location is not the only aspect to consider for higher Google rankings. The other aspect is the IP of the datacenter that houses your server. The datacenter can be located in any country in the world, and have their IP registered in another country. If this is the case, Google may pay more attention to where their IP is registered, rather than the country where their servers are physically located.