Web Hosting - Performance Matters - The Metrics You Can't Ignore in Web Hosting
Author: Godigi
If a website's performance isn't great, customers will leave. They'll visit other sites that load quickly, have reliable uptime and provide them with the information they need. A good web host can help you optimize your site and improve its performance so that it delivers a superior customer experience. But how do you know which one to pick? That depends on your business needs, the size of your website and your technical expertise and resources.
The best way to find the right web hosting provider for you is to look for a hosting plan that offers the features you need. Web hosts typically offer different types of plans, such as shared, VPS, dedicated and cloud hosting, each with varying levels of control, scalability and support.
A common measure of a web hosting company's reliability is uptime, which refers to how long the server remains online. To achieve a high uptime, web hosting companies often invest in large data centers that are designed with redundant power sources and cooling systems. These facilities also have staff on hand around the clock to ensure that all servers are working properly and responding to any problems immediately.
Another important metric to look for is latency, which is the time it takes for a web page to load on a user's device. In order to minimize latency, you should choose a web hosting provider that uses content delivery networks (CDNs) to deliver websites from multiple servers located around the world. A CDN can also increase the speed of a website by caching or compressing dynamic or static web pages.
The next thing to look for is a web host that offers ample bandwidth allowance. Your website may need a lot of bandwidth depending on how many visitors you have and the amount of streaming media files that are uploaded to your site. A good web hosting company will allow you to scale your bandwidth as needed during traffic spikes.
Other critical metrics to consider include the average loading speed and uptime of a web host, as well as the provider's security features. Cybersecurity is non- negotiable, and it's essential to choose a web hosting provider that has strong security policies in place to protect your website, as well as your customers' information.
The last metric to pay attention to is the number of unhealthy hosts that are being reported by the load balancer. This is a metric that provides an indication of the health of the system, and can be useful to detect problems like memory leaks or IO bottlenecks.
A healthy system has a low number of unhealthy hosts, while an unhealthy one has a high number of unhealthy hosts. This metric is usually included in the reports generated by the load balancer, and can be easily compared with the overall average host count.
In addition, many web hosting providers use their own customized metrics infrastructure that provides this data.
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