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Are you building a website for fun or for business purpose?

I asked you that because if you build a website for fun and sharing, then you wouldn't feel much pain when it goes down often. On the contrary, it's very frustrating and exasperating if your website is making you money when it gets shut down frequently without warning.

Here's a genuine case:

"I am after some recommendations on web hosting companies. The current webhost I am with is unreliable and has had a lot of downtime over the last month and has informed me that both my sites will be down for about 6 hours today which isn't on! I have a business to run here and I need to improve my up-time for my customers, and the only way to do it is to change host."

If you're anything like the victim above, it's not too late to start your quest for a more reliable web hosting company. If you're just getting started and are looking for a host, then all the more you must make sure you find the best reliable web hosting service right off the bat, or you'll suffer later having to waste time and money changing your hosting provider.

No doubt uptime is the number one priority for any online businesses, the difficult part is that you won't know how well its server performs until you start hosting your website with the company.

The only thing you can do in your research is to study some genuine reviews about various web hosts. Then streamline your choices down to top 3 hosting providers. Next, you compare among the top 3 and see which one you would like to try out first.

I said "try out" because even though the reviews about the particular hosting company may be correct, to be on the safe side, it's always best to sign up for a monthly plan first. If you commit right away to their yearly hosting plan, you'll be wasting money should their service backfire on you within the first month.

You should always play cautious by signing up for a monthly plan. Then during this period, feel free to call for their support for any issues you have. If good, then you can consider from there to see if you want to go for a year worth of hosting package. Of course, you can test-drive for 2 months if you think one month is too short to know them well.

I got a friend who's extremely careful about the web host he found. He tested it for 6 full months (I recommended the company to him) before he nodded and handed over the web host his one-year hosting fee.

Another thing worth mentioning is that, never ever go with a web host that also offers free hosting service. Their server is exceptionally unreliable. I suspect that the victim I mentioned early on was using this type of hosting service.

To wrap it up, keep in mind that the best review about the reliability of the web host is your own personal experience. But if you don't want to go through the hassles of testing and finding a good hosting company, then seek recommendation from an authority or someone you can trust.

Want more web hosting tips? Soon Chai shows you more proven strategies on how to choose web hosting service and helps you find the best reliable web hosting company that maintains your business websites at maximum uptime, loads your web pages fast, makes you more profits and keeps your operating costs down forever.