Well, yes it does actually. As it’s very much an online thing there’s an avalanche of information around as to where to host your website but, when you look into it, most of that info leaves out the really basic information that you need to know.
When you start looking around at website hosting you’re likely to not even notice those lapses in information and it’s really only after you’ve chosen a hosting service that you discover there’s some information that you’d have liked to have known about in advance. For example, there’s a surprising number of comparison sites that don’t bother to mention whether or not there’s a ‘control panel’ interface. That’s important because when the time comes when you want to move your sites to another host, it’s a whole lot easier if they’re running a control panel.
Almost always not covered is where the hosting is located. That’s basically because the majority of comparison sites are based in the US and don’t even think of the implications of people from outside the US using a hosting service. In fact, there’s a major difference: courtesy of how google’s geographic system works it’s much better to have your site hosted in the country where your customers are based. In one case, I’ve seen a huge difference in site hits on moving from a US based hosting service to a UK based one where the customers were generally based in the UK. Even within the US this could potentially have implications for you where your site was hosted on the east coast but your customers were on the west coast.
So, think not just who your site is hosted with but where it will be.
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