What to consider when purchasing web hosting?

The number of web hosting company in the world rapidly growing. It is fair if they all claim that their company is the number one with an unbeatable price. It took foresight, or perhaps advice in choosing a reliable web hosting services is truly reliable and consistent in providing services.
Here are some point that might be your consideration when choosing web services.

Reviews of the company
if they get good feedback Great, if they get bad feedback what if any are there responses?

Feature and Capacity
Make sure that FTP, PHP, Perl, SSI, .htaccess, telnet, SSH, MySQL is there. Note for the capacity also, buy as you need. not to big to avoid more expensive, but not to small for your web purpose.

Support
You will be surprised at how often things go wrong at the most inconvenient of times. Make sure it have technical support for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year arround. Test them out by emailing them at midnight and on Saturday nights, Sunday mornings, etc. Check out how long they take to respond
Live chat is a plus but a lot of the time it's not manned 24x7 and sometimes it's outsourced to another country to people who may or may not have access on any level to the hardware (so it proves useless if they cant help when you need it)

Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of time that a web site is working. For example, if some host has an uptime average of 99.86%, this means that your site will be down for a total about 1 hour each month. Some hosts also offer "uptime guarantees" but this is not as valuable as it might appear

Price
We often get what we pay for. But not the most expensive hosts are the best. Some web hosting offer money back guarantee so they can get your trust.

Bandwidth/Traffic
Data transfer ("traffic" or "bandwidth") is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site.
When choosing a host, the amount of bandwidth you choose to purchase can be crucial to the success of your site. The more amount of bandwidth you have, the more traffic your site will be able to handle at one time.

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