Looking for blog website Hosting? What should be the deciding factors?
It's true that space and bandwidth and other pertinent terms are the lifelines of the hosting services. Also, one should be pretty wise while selecting a host or the hosting package. However, there are more than these core aspects that are important too and affect your online success. So you peek beyond these confined walls and decide the hosting according to your unique needs. Be it the eCommerce website, magazine website, institutional website, or simply a blog website. So today, we shed some light on some of the biggest influencing factors for blog website Hosting.
Before delving into the hosting circumstances, you must know the relationship between blogs and SEO. Both walk hands in hands. SEO is the tactic that makes a blog website credible. SEO lets it be visible to the internet users directly through Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) or indirectly via the forums and content sharing. What's more, it boosts its ranking and click rate, and so forth.
So the web hosting services for the blogging websites must be in line with the SEO prerequisites. That being said, SEO has its own to follow.
Server Location
You will come across the fast speed and speed reliability claims from almost every host. Instead of believing and trapping in such claims, try to explore the server locations of the web host. If it isn't in your vicinity or the nearest country, think twice before signing up.
For instance, if you are buying web hosting in Pakistan, your shortlisted host candidates should have Pakistan-based servers.
One thing to clear here is the physical distance between your website launching point and the server matters. Look, your website needs data from the server to render the content and process the requests of your website users. The farther the distance, the more time your site takes to receive the data from the server. So is the slow responding time of the website – poor user experience, which you surely don't want your website to have.
Therefore, in-vicinity geographical location servers are the best choice for entrusting your blog website.
However, in case your host's servers are somewhat far. And you must sign up with a company due to features, price, whatever. In that case, you can take the CDN (Content Delivery Network) into account. Your blog website Hosting host must be leveraging it. CDN helps render your content faster.
Speed
However, if you aren't primarily focused on the server location (though you should), speed should still be your top concern.
For instance, if you are running a medical blog or healthy workout blog, you must have a crowd of visitors. The same is the case with any other niche information broadcasting blog, whether technology or food-related. However, if your blog loads slowly, your daily readers will face difficulty in loading your content pieces (content blocks, infographics, videos, etc.).
Your (below average loading) slow blog is going to lose visitors, let alone the ranking. Not only the ranking downfall but your domain/ website might also be penalized by search engines. Search engines prefer the fast-loading website only, specifically after the rolled-out page experience update.
So for new or existing blog websites, the newly signed or going to be migrated hosting must-have blazing fast speeds. In turn, each of your posted content renders quickly and maintains the users' interest in your blog/ content.
Platform Compatibility
The next detail to keep in mind is the platform your blog uses or will use in the future. Commonly used platforms include but are not limited to WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, etc.
So you need to verify that the host supports the platform and is fully compatible. For example, though WordPress is the big shot and many web hosts support it, you still need to confirm with your host. By the same token, compatibility shouldn't be off the track if your chosen platform is other than WordPress.
In addition to the platform, there can be other factors where your host should be helpful. For instance, the hosting environment reinforces the plugins, third-party integrations, and like features. Otherwise, your website encounters challenges in the long run.
Server Stability/ Uptime
Stability is another factor that is the stepping stone between hosting and SEO viability. Only when your website has a stable server at its backend only then can you ensure that your website will be up and running at all times. The time users expect and the host claims is a maximum, and that is 99.9%.
However, if your blog is down, most of the time, again, search engines might penalize your website. The penalty might not be strict. Yet it still can be the penalty of kicking your blog out of the competitive SERP.
Servers with huge downtimes are the responsibility of the web host. So you need to be mindful and take referrals, especially about the uptime from other users.
Summing Up!
To recapitulate, the blog website hosting you select for your blog venture should be speed and server location. In addition, Server Stability and Platform Compatibility should also be the deciding factors. So be wise and choose the host that tick marks all these factors.
Navicosoft is reputed for web hosting in Pakistan for all hosting types from shared, VPS, and cloud to dedicated hosting. The web hosting services are truck loaded with practicable features for not only blog websites but other website niches and web products too.
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