Article: Completion of Hosting study
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Ensure the hosting provider you use is capable of upgrading you through the different levels of hosting options as your business expands.
This may not seem relevant when you have a few pages and a blog however over the years when your site has increased to over 2000 pages and compatibility issues become revenant this could become quite a problem.
This is a good reason to not only compare the basic service hosting charges but also the consistency and cost affectivity of the upgrading packages and all the additional services that you may end up needing.
Many providers catch you out with this trick offering very low new customer fees for most basic of services then piling on the costs thereafter.
You will find prices vary for these services quite a bit and price comparison websites, which are driven by affiliate profits tend to be bias and will try and pass the highest commission hosting site off as a first choice.
This has been one of our key mystery shopping projects based on top hosting providers singled out during relative discussion forums. The aim of this exercise was to create a preferred hosting list for the members and company's within the Visuals group based on: overall cost (including basic cost for simple projects), technology, services, facilities, support and reliability (including Continuity).