Have a quick Google and you’ll find a plenty of of business web hosting nightmare blogs. Businesses who don’t realise they are being hosted by a teenager. Wondering why their website hosting and emails suddenly disappear off the face of the earth, and their host isn’t answering emails (well they won’t be able to!) or telephone. The cause? Little Johnny has had his computer taken away and been grounded for getting a detention. Ok, so its a hypothetical situation might sound a bit far fetched possibly? Again have another look on Google- you will find far worse problems webmasters have found to be in. Becasue? They picked a bad web host. While no one has a foolproof way of avoiding bad webhosts, I’ll provide you a few tips on tell-tale signs of a bad website hosting business.

No postal address on the hosting companies site.

Without a contact address starts to break the distance selling laws in the UK. Would a reputable business not provide an address to contact them at if they ever had an issue? A buisness which hasn’t advertised a postal address sticks like a bedroom web host.

Reckoning to have multiple datacentres of there own.

I preffer to do buissness with companies that are honest, we at least try and be as honest as they can. If you ran a small local shop, you wouldn’t claim to own a chain of supermarkets nationwide. This is the same for web hosts reckoning to ‘have’ their own datacentre. From claiming to own their own managed dedicated server to datacentre, theres a lot of mistruths out there.Let me tell you, a very very small proportion of hosts have the resources and size to run their own datacentre. While not having your own datacentre is not normally a bad thing. But when a web host starts claiming they do it’s normally bad news.

Speedy response to any emails sent?

With email being the choice of communication in the electronic age. You have a few questions about the service you would want to send off an email with your queries in and get a response back to your inbox. So say a company did not answer the telephone, would you do business with them? Likewise if a hoisting company takes over a day to answer a email that does not look good. What if it takes them them that long to an email that may generate some money, how long would you need to wait for support? That been said don’t be fooled by the web host that will reply to your sales email within a few moments, but when you need support don’t care.

What’s the hosts English like?

Big indicating factor normally is the professionalism of the host, what is the spelling and grammar like? You have no doubt come accross websites with wrongly spelt words who claim to be the ‘garetest’ web host on the ‘word wipe web’. What if your host can’t take the time to spell check their website or has not the ability to spell, the sales speech to convince you with, can you really trust them with your website?

Want to find a decent web host instead?

There are some trustworthy uk business class web hosting providers. The pointers we have given above are only just scratching the surface on spotting a bad host. Making your choice on a web host is very hard. When you are look for your quality buissness class web host, please make sure you do the homework. Sear the internet for reviews, and also speak to existing customers. Google can dish the dirt brilliantly on a company. Try searching the company and find what comes up. Above everything else, when you come to pay make sure you pay monthly as you can walk away if it goes bad, and if the sticky stuff does hit the wall, make sure you have backups. Best of luck.

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