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Can a web hosting company affect the amount of traffic you get?
I have heard people have lost traffic on their website (and hence business) when they changed their web hosting company from a better one to a cheaper one. My question is, apart from the the bandwidth which is usually enough for a text based website or the uptime of the server, is there any other reason I can loose traffic if I move my site to another cheaper server? Does the web hosting company affects the traffic at all if yes in what sense. Please help. Why shouldn't I move to a cheaper server which has myql? It is not an ecommerce website just an plain personnel site with some downloads. Thanks.
5 months ago - 3 answers
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Uptime would be the biggest factor when moving to a "cheaper" host. Not only just uptime of the webserver but uptime of database servers, DNS servers, routers and general network issues can all effect the availability of your website. It is not just cheap hosts that have problems with availability, sometimes the the top hosts have issues as well. There have been cases recently of major hosting companies being down for hours due to networking issues.
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Yes, but not too much. Places like FatCow have ways that you can see what other people have used that webhosting service and you can see the site they made from it, but other than that, it hardly affects your traffic. It really depends on how you promote the site.
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