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 You buy a domain and want to start your site running, time to find your perfect hosting. This is one of our first steps, and might be your most crucial one. I won't tell you which hosting company to choose, I will attempt just to clarify the picture. What are your Hosting options ? Shared Hosting You can choose shared hosting - obviously this one will be the cheapest option. In this category you might even find free hosting options, with or without ads on your site. Although this option sounds great for beginners as it is cheap and is comes with many promises from the hosting company (unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space etc.), there are no free meals, and as you are not alone on this server ( shared hosting), you don't really know who your neighbors are. So nothing is guaranteed, you might have a neighbor which takes lots of bandwidth, so you will actually have less to use etc. You might have a malicious neighbor which will attempt to hack your site using the common host...

Finding the Right Host Currently I am using Hostgator as a hoster for my websites. But I am very disappointed with them, the main drawback is the constant downtimes my sites get due to their shaky servers. I used shared hosting, then upgraded to reseller hosting, the downtimes happen every now and then, the latest one was for more than 12 hours! I must move my sites from that hosting. I want to move my sites to a robust hosting service, one which won't fall, and if it did, it will have a good internal load balancer. Searching for a good web hosting is difficult as the web is spammed with advertised ones, due to the large number of affiliates out there. Anyway, my search, did give me some results. I considered the following: Amazon EC2 Amazon Lightsail Google Cloud Computing Vultr Digital Ocean Linode Amazon EC2 and Google's cloud computing, which looked like my uneducated best guesses, fell from the race due to the complexity of their pricing model. They have a nice price model...