How to choose the right type of hosting for your website

One of the main factors for every successful website is to have a good web hosting service, as choosing a hosting plan is an important decision because it will affect the performance level of the site in general, and it mainly contributes to improving the SEO of the site and increasing your ranking in search engines, and for this we have to choose the best hosting for our website, in order to remain available to visitors and customers permanently.
Choosing the right hosting requires taking into account several things:
• Start first, with a small hosting space, and then as your needs increase, you move your site to a larger hosting plan.
• Choose a suitable hosting for your site in terms of size, number of visitors, data transfer rate, storage space and other important things that your site is affected by and its performance depends on, and hosting should work on a powerful and stable server by 99.9%
• The possibility of developing hosting to a more suitable type for your site, such as moving the site to a better plan with more storage space instead of transferring your site to another company.
• You should check the renewal price of the hosting plan before you buy it and find out if you will get a discount if you book for more than a year or not.
• However, you should make sure that you can get a refund if you are not satisfied with the hosting you purchased.
• You should research well and know the terms of use of the company with which you will deal so that your account is not suspended or your site is exposed to problems.
• Make sure that the email service is available within the hosting plan that you will purchase and also make sure the number of emails available to you.
• Make sure that the hosting company you are dealing with provides a backup service for the site, this service returns the site to you completely, or at least returns most of it to you.
What are the types of web hosting?
The types of web hosting are classified according to several different factors, and it is worth noting that each type has its advantages and is suitable for a certain type of websites and you should choose the most suitable among them.
* Shared web hosting
In this type of hosting, several internet sites share the same server resources such as memory, disk space, etc., among themselves. In other words, many websites are stored in one shared hosting server, which has a low cost; moreover it is considered an unsuitable option for large sites with high traffic.
* Virtual private server hosting
Small websites, organizations and medium-sized companies that are experiencing rapidly increasing traffic, use this type of hosting, which is a compromise between shared hosting and dedicated hosting.
By default, the primary physical server is divided into several sections, where each section represents a server dedicated to a site, but it is not a physical server, but a virtual one.
No site can use the space allocated to another site, even though all sites are on the same physical server, they are stored in different separated spaces from each other
- Dedicated server hosting
This type of hosting is considered convenient and reliable, in case your website witnesses a very large number of visitors as large business sites and websites that store financial data are guaranteed to get high performance for these sites, where the physical server is completely dedicated to only one website so that it stores all the contents of this site such as photos, videos, documents and serves visitors to this site only.
- Cloud web hosting
It is the newest type of web hosting, which is more expensive than other types of hosting and effective for running a huge and growing content website.
It is experiencing great popularity in the labor market, and it is characterized by great scalability and scalability, as it hosts your site files on several interconnected web servers that form a cloud, serves one website and provides the best service, and copies files and resources of your site on more than one server.
- Reseller hosting
This type of hosting is suitable for you, in case you are a web developer or own a website and application development company, planning to sell web hosting services to other sites.
- WordPress hosting
Many people resort to using the WordPress system to create their sites, so many web hosting providers have introduced a special type of hosting for the WordPress content management system, and they are available in several forms.
It is a fast and hassle-free hosting for managing your WordPress site and providing high-quality support.