Every organization or individual who is seeking to set up a website has personal goals. And they hope to achieve it without having to deal with other technicalities involved in the venture. Imagine being a digital artist that wants to reach a wider audience by setting up a web store. This individual - and many like him - neither cares nor have the time to start learning about network programming or how to ensure his website has 99.9% online uptime (availability).

This guide will help you gain the needed skills to choose the best web hosting service providers available online and how to use their platform to host your business and/or service(s). You may also have other reasons for setting up a website, this guide will assist you in navigating through from conception all the way to publishing.

Before deciding on which hosting service to trust - yes, you are trusting them with your business, service and money - you need to understand what kind of website you want to set up and examine if the hosting provider offer a package that can accommodate your needs.

For example, a hosting company like CertaSpace have a bronze package for lightweight  websites, such as a simple landing page, and platinum packages for high transaction sites like e-commerce platforms. This gives you as a prospective website owner the chance to evaluate what suits you best.

After you have ascertained what you want, then consider the following core factors before paying for services.

Reliability

A website is only valuable to people who visit it if they can always access its content any time they have such need. Imagine if Google Search stops working for one hour, or Facebook goes under and you can’t connect with your friends and colleagues; it would be like stone-age reincarnate. What has helped this services remain online all year round is their redundant networks. They have many server farms around the world, waiting to kick-in if the active one fails. Such proactive measures are needed for any web hosting service you decide to use.

Take CertaSpace, once again, we have taken special care to ensure that your website will be available to your intended audience 365 days a year. The servers we use are state-of-the-art with likelihood of service denial tending towards zero. But in the eventuality that the active site goes down, their is a standby support site ready to kick in and ensure you don’t lose clients or traction.

Also, a core part of reliability is security. You want to be certain that your site can’t be hacked and your data stolen. We have taken the necessary initiative by offering a secure package using SSL. SSL is a standard protocol that encrypts yours and your clients data over the network of communication.

Customer support

Admit it, you don’t know much about technical computing stuff. And if you do, there's nothing you can do from your end if, for instance, your package is getting exhausted and you need to upgrade. While this is not peculiar to web hosting companies, it is of great importance that they have a speedy support system. They should be able to resolve your problems or give you an idea that they are capable of resolving them within the least time possible. The way they respond and interact with you will tell you how much they value you as their customer.

CertaSpace has invested in making our customers happy; happy customers have more time growing their venture. With technically skilled and efficient personnels, we have put measures in place that allow clients complaint(s) to be taken care of in the shortest possible time. We also offer numerous avenue for customers to contact us; one could decide to open a ticket, or contact the support team through the website. We have also made it so simple that you can connect through on WhatsApp;  +2348180306466.

Such transparency are the hallmark of responsive teams that put your interest and convenience, as their client, first and paramount above all others.

Simplicity of using the web-apps

Have you tried using website and you can’t find your way around, and you end up wasting productive time. Or the website is not responsive and you’re stuck reloading the page over and again.

CertaSpace provides the best site hosting service with intuitive and easy to use user interfaces. From above screenshot, one can’t misrepresent the point of that section of the site; to search for domain name availability. This unifying theme resonates through pages of the website and allows the user to easily perform actions they require.

Affordability

Hosting services have numerous bills, many of which are recurrent. Over a quarter of a year, one could amass a debt in cloud services that eclipses any profit made from the venture you’re running.

CertaSpace offers the best and cheapest pricing in web hosting services in Nigeria and online. We can afford to offer this competitive price for our customers because we have the facility and redundancy to absorb such complexity. This means that as the cost of services and hosting increases, there is a better chance to make considerable profit by sticking it out with the CertaSpace.

After checking each of the above off your list and discerning providers that don’t fit the bill, you can pitch your tent with any of the capable hosting providers or you could visit https://certaspace.com/ and let us help you out.

This article is a part of a series called How to host websites online.