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Web Hosting in India

Thinking of a web hosting provider in India ? Well, you will find dozens of domain name registration and web hosting providers in every corner of India. Right from companies like Hosting3i, Net4 Domains, Rediff Hosting, Indiatimes Hosting, Manas Hosting, and rest all.

Then which web hosting company from India is right choice for you?… Some are giving out web hosting plans at cheaper rates, while some are giving free unlimited bandwidth plans while some for ‘Buy 1 GB get another GB Free hosting’.

The aim of this article is to guide to differentiate between the REAL web hosting provider in India and the Reseller hosting company.

Let’s get to the true facts of these web hosting providers in India:

1) Web Hosting companies in India: How many?
Bigger and leading companies: Only three. Hosting3i.com, BSNL and VSNL (These are web hosting providers with Data Center, Network Operation Center, Call Centers)
Other companies: over 2000 - all web hosting resellers. (These are only web space sellers like a retail shop near your house.)

These hosting reseller companies act as full-fledge web hosting company and advertise themselves in Yellow pages or classifieds or in technology magazines.

2) Servers and Data Centers:
For your web site to be hosted on servers the web hosting company needs IBM/Dell quality servers. In India only the top and biggest company like Hosting3i, BSNL can afford to buy such servers to serve the web hosting clients with consistent service. Whereas, in India, the rest of web hosting providers are just resellers who buy 10 GB of space from a bigger web hosting company and sell 1 GB space to each customer. In India you will find thousands of web hosting resellers acting as web hosting companies. - AVOID THEM! but why?… here is the answer: Leading web hosting companies like Hosting3i.com / BSNL have their own IN-HOUSE DATA CENTER where your web sites are hosted. This means that, such bigger companies have root access to your web site and can solve the technical problems instantly and effectively. Such hosting companies provide world-class 24×7 support on phone, email and web - thus you are not worried about the behind-the-scene web hosting environment. You are sure that such bigger web hosting companies will have best-of-breed servers, routers and infrastructure that ensure your web site to be online all the time!

Whereas, the web hosting resellers in India, acting as web hosting companies DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO DATA CENTERS - because they DON’T OWN the data centers. Neither they own the servers, equipment or hosting infrastructure. - They just pay small yearly rent to hire a web hosting space in bulk (wholesale) and sale it to you as retailer. - Avoid such companies. When the original web hosting providers like Hosting3i and BSNL are in the market, why are you wasting time, money, and taking high risk by hosting with a reseller hosting company in India?

3) Service:
Let me clear you - Web site hosting is a SERVICE and not a PRODUCT. Bigger hosting companies always provide technical, billing, hosting, scripting, after-sales service throughout the year to you. These companies provide web hosting as a service and not as a product. They guarantee you 24×7 support by phone, web, email. Whereas, the rest of web hosting resellers in India, acting as web hosting companies are just SELLERS. They are not in the market to provide you SERVICE. These web hosting reseller just SALE you the web hosting space / plan and their RESPONSIBILITY IS OVER. But, bigger hosting companies in India like Hosting3i.com / BSNL - their RESPONSIBILITY STARTS after they sale you the web hosting space /plan. Always remember web site hosting is not a PRODUCT but it’s a SERVICE. You are paying a web hosting company for ONE-YEAR FEE and they have to tackle your problems, queries, etc effectively in this period - Web hosting resellers fail to do this. The reason is - they have NO technical knowledge about the web hosting environment, scripts, programs and applications running on servers. Also the major reason is they don’t have access to the web server so they cant tackle the problems. Then you can expect them to help you. This is the reason you should avoid so called web hosting companies who are LOCAL and CHEAP.

4) Web Space and Bandwidth:
So what ideal web space you require for your web site? Here is the solution:

personal web site with 20 pages - 100 MB space required.
business / educational web site with 50 - 100 pages - 500 MB space required.
commercial site / product catalogue / photo gallery site - 500 pages - 2000 MB (2GB) space required.
Big portals / company web site / e-commerce web site - over 1000 pages - 10000 MB (10GB) space required.

Now lets talk about bandwidth:

If your web site receives 1000 daily visitors then at most bandwidth required per day is 5 MB. (30,000 visitors a month x 5MB = 1500000 MB = 150GB total bandwidth per month)

So an average web space and bandwidth for a regular website with moderate traffic is never more than 5GB and 100GB web space and bandwidth respectively. So If your web host is offering you more than that then don’t waste money on the same as over buying space than your need is waste of money.

Also, if your web hosting provider is offering 10MB, 50MB, 500MB plans to you - be sure he is a hosting reseller and and a hosting company.

5) Web Hosting Plan Price:
So what price you will pay for the web site hosting plans?… Well upto 5GB web hosting plans price is around for Rs.3000 per year or less! So if you web hosting provider is offering the same for higher prices then be sure he is demanding much much more from you.

6) Email Web space:
Every web hosting provider in India will offer you either 500 email accounts or unlimited email accounts with the web hosting plan you purchase. These hosting reseller hosting companies fool you by offering the same space for email within you web hosting space. Suppose you are buying a 2GB web hosting plan then they will give you unlimited email accounts option to be created WITHIN the same web hosting space. Remember, that you are not given another EMAIL SERVER to host your email accounts. This leads to loss of your money and web space reserved for only web site hosting purpose. On the other hand, bigger and professional companies like Hosting3i.com provide SEPARATE email server for you. That means if you buy 2GB for web hosting plan, you will receive FULL 2GB web hosting space to host your website and another 5GB space to host your email accounts associated with the web space. - This is the difference. In India, Net 4 Domains, Rediff, Indiatimes, Sify and other hosting companies FAIL to provide such email servers to their customers. Only Hosting3i.com is the company which provides separate email server space for hosting your email and that too FREE!!

7) Natural Causes:
What happens if the owner of the web hosting company you host with is dead or is out of the business? Simple. you loose your web hosting account with them. On the other hand, hosting with bigger companies will always help to run your site without interruption. If ever such bigger companies are liquidated in future they transfer your hosting accounts to some another company so that you are not affected with the internal-affairs of the hosting company.

So before hosting your website think twice. Your website is your business reputation. Don’t host it with any web hosting reseller acting as a full-fledge web hosting company in India. Find the original hosting companies - they are cheap, affordable, reliable and secure.

We recommend you Hosting3i.com for your web hosting needs as its one of the India’s largest web hosting provider since 2004.

– Mahendra Kumar, Product Head, Hosting3i

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