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There are more than 300,000 hosting providers in the world. Their hosting plans, price points and features vary widely. Some charge pennies per month to host websites, while others cost hundreds of times that. Some offer robust features, like direct SSH access, while others give you a bare-bones web interface and wish you the best. With so many options out there, how can you choose the best hosting provider for your business? The answer is complicated, but here are nine factors to consider when selecting a hosting company.

1. Shared vs. Dedicated Hosting

One of the first questions to consider looking for the best hosting company for your business is whether you want a shared or dedicated server to host your websites.

On a shared server,…

When starting a business, you should consider any way to defer costs until you have a solid turnover, with many small business owners tempted to utilize the best free web hosting for their first website.

However, decent free web hosting can be hard to find, and we advise that you choose a low-cost web host instead, because free web hosting usually cuts corners. Even if you’re on a strict budget, going for free web hosting means you’ll always come up against its tight limitations, such as a lack of reliability, limited disk space, and slow speeds. 

After eight months of guest hosts, Jeopardy! finally has a permanent replacement for the late Alex Trebek. Game show veteran and current Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune executive producer Mike Richards will fill the role when the syndicated series’ 38th season begins later this year. The producers have also hired neuroscientist and The Big Bang Theory actor Mayim Bialik, who guest-hosted earlier this year, as the host of a new prime-time version of the series as well as upcoming championship specials.

“We are thrilled to begin the next chapter of America’s Favorite Quiz Show with Mike hosting our daily show and Mayim hosting new versions of Jeopardy!,” said Ravi Ahuja, chairman of global television studios and corporate development for Sony Pictures, in a news release. “We…

Nexcess is the First Managed WooCommerce Host to Deliver Sales Performance Insights with WooCommerce Hosting Plans

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Aug. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Nexcess, the fully managed, high-performance digital commerce cloud platform built to optimize WordPress, WooCommerce, and Magento sites and stores, today announced the release of Sales Performance Monitor as a feature on all WooCommerce plans.

“We wanted our WooCommerce store owners to have critical insights into the health of their online store revenue.”

“We wanted our WooCommerce store owners to have critical insights into the health of their online store revenue,” said Chris Lema, WooCommerce Authority and VP of Products and Innovation. “Merchants are often unaware when their online store is…

In the web hosting sector, a relatively new innovation is cloud hosting, which is slowly changing the industry and being adopted by the best web hosting services. 

Cloud hosting works by bringing together a pool of resources instead of a specific server, like traditional dedicated or VPS hosting, meaning that you can draw on this pool as and when required. As a result, you can allocate extra RAM, storage, or bandwidth to hosting plans when you need it, such as adding extra resources for a short-term period of time, if you’re expecting a temporary spike in traffic or sales.