Expat Guide To Web Hosting In Australasia

If you have a business based in either the offline or the online world, it’s completely necessary in 2019 to have some kind of web presence. The best choice, of course, is to have your own website that you control and is built to service your needs as comprehensively as possible. To do this though, you’ll need two things: a domain name and a web host.
Domain names can be bought from a registrar for as low as $10 U.S. and then proper hosting can be acquired. For the Australasian business owner, finding a proper web host can be a bit of a pain in the behind. You want to find the best price to value ratio out of all available web hosting companies. This means finding a competent host that isn’t overcharging for their services. A web host stores your website’s data on a server that can then transmit that data to people who are trying to access your site. Comparison shopping is essential to finding the right company for the job.

Choose Where You Want Your Site To Be Hosted

Australasian web hosting companies are plentiful because of the relative ease of being a web hosting company. With the proper startup capital, the right equipment and some people with basic IT knowledge and network architecture skills, a web hosting company can be born. Finding decent web hosts for Singapore is easier than finding decent web hosts for Papua New Guinea, though. Carefully selecting what country will be hosting your site will mean the difference between having ready access to customer support and some general assurances your site will always be accessible. Singapore, for instance, is incredibly developed with tons of qualified network administrators and their power grid is very reliable. A cheap web host in a country that’s lagging behind in international tech standards leave you at risk of intermittent site downtime and an inability to do high level tasks for the betterment of your site.

Read The Fine Print

Every web host has several tiers of hosting plans. The basic tiers offer more or less just a website that a handful of people can access at a time before problems arise while the more expensive tiers will allow you to run an extremely fast website that can take sudden surges in traffic. Read the agreement you’re provided with each plan from each host you’re thinking about going to and see what features you’ll get and what they actually mean. Cheap hosts might advertise 24/7 access to support, but reading their terms and conditions might reveal that they’re just giving you 24/7 to their support portal and no guarantees anyone will actually help you in an expedient manner.
Keep your eye out for good deals on web hosting but understand that if something is too good to be true, it probably is. The Australasian web hosting industry is very competitive and developed, but there are still unscrupulous web hosts hanging around just trying to make some extra money banking on the fact that you won’t fight hard to get your money back or make that big of a stink when they do you wrong. Vet all of your choices carefully before committing. Best of luck with your online endeavors!