How to choose hosting in India?

August 15, 2022

How to choose hosting in India?

Local company or international?

This depends on the target audience. If it is located in India and the server that hosts your website - somewhere else, your audience won’t be very happy. Why? Because the response time of your website will be very big, meaning that your website will load slowly for them. Thus, the server should be located in India.

If the server is in India, it doesn’t really matter whether the company headquarters is located in Mumbai, Chennai or even in another country. So let’s move to other factors that need to be taken into consideration while choosing a hosting provider.

Free or paid hosting?

We highly recommend choosing a paid hosting provider. A free one has a row of disadvantages such as lack of experienced customer support, unstable performance and inflexible settings. Still, if you’re a beginner and you want to understand and see for yourself how hosting works, you can check the rating of free hosting providers here.

Another option is to find a hosting provider that offers a trial period. In this case you’ll have the opportunity to test the services and you don’t need to pay for that.

Windows or Linux hosting?

If your project doesn’t specifically require Windows, we recommend purchasing Linux hosting. It is supported by all hosting providers. It’s also considerably cheaper.

What about package characteristics?

Tricky question. This depends on what kind of website you are going to create. For instance, one page websites do not require a lot of resources. Whereas a huge online store definitely requires a separate server for it. We will discuss the website types a bit later. For now, we can give common advices of a few package characteristics:

Disk space: a simple and small website requires 2-5 Gb of disk space, so don’t choose less;
Bandwidth: if you don’t host a lot of media or stream video, 8-10 Gb will be enough;
Feature support: most providers support all of the required features, so there’s nothing to worry about.

What kind of hosting would be the best for my site?

The first thing you have to do is to decide what kind of website you are going to create. For your convenience, we’ve divided them into three groups:

Small - blogs, portfolio websites, small online stores, corporate websites;
Medium - portals, forums and big online stores;
Large - complex projects such an infrastructure for your company, a huge Aliexpress-like online store.

For small websites we recommend to purchase shared hosting. It is a kind of hosting when you "share" one physical server with lots of other users. Medium websites can be hosted on a VPS server. It is slightly similar to Shared hosting: the server is divided into different accounts where users host their sites. However, the resources are strictly limited for each user. As for large websites, you should choose a dedicated server. It’s a server that belongs solely to you. You can check the detailed explanation in this article.

Due to this, we have created various ratings to help you choose the best provider for you. Here they are:

At the top there’s also a filter that you can use to see specifically Indian hosting providers and those who have servers in India. Just click on Country in the second box and select India.

How do we rate the companies?

That’s quite simple. We take into consideration two major factors: visitor’s reviews and website tasks. If the first one is pretty much clear (we constantly monitor your reviews) the second is not. As you can see, there are a lot of different ratings in our footer. They are categorized according to a certain task or purpose of the website. For instance, not all of the hosting providers offer vBulletin hosting. That’s why companies that provide specifically optimized hosting will occupy a higher position in these particular ratings, even if the overall evaluation is lower than the others.

How much does it cost to host a website in India?

As we already know, there are three major hosting types: shared, VPS and dedicated servers. So, the average pricing for them is the following:

Shared hosting in India - $5-7/mo
VPS in India - $35/mo
Reseller hosting in India - $15/mo
Dedicated servers in India - $160/mo

Conclusion

While choosing a hosting provider, you need to take into consideration a whole bunch of factors: disk space, technical support, server location and, most important, the website type. So, it all begins with the purpose of your website. Only after you decide what kind of website are you going to build, you are to move to the rest of the factors. Besides, you can read user reviews on our website, if you would like to know some "insider" information.

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