Buying Web Hosting: How to Choose the Right Hosting for Your Website
Once your website is ready, one of the key decisions is where to host it. Hosting decides how fast your site opens, how secure it is and how reliably it runs. This article explains what to check before buying hosting and what WebStrategy offers.
What is web hosting?
In short: hosting is space on a server where your website files, images and database are stored. When a visitor types your domain, the server sends them your pages. If the server is slow or often down, both visitors and Google notice.
What to check before buying hosting
1. Storage type and speed
SSD storage is usually much faster than HDD. Speed is part of Core Web Vitals and affects rankings — see our technical SEO article.
2. Reliability (uptime)
Ask how the provider monitors its servers and what happens during an outage. Every minute offline is a lost customer or order.
3. SSL certificate
HTTPS is essential today: without it browsers mark your site as "not secure". Good hosting includes free SSL that renews automatically.
4. Backups
Mistakes, malware or crashes can happen to any website. Regular backups let you restore it quickly. If your site is already down, read what to do when your website is not working.
5. Control panel
With cPanel you manage files, databases, email and domains yourself — no developer needed.
6. Technology
Check for a current PHP version and MySQL — essential for PHP websites, admin panels and CMSs.
7. Support in your language
When something goes wrong, you need a quick answer from people who understand you — ideally the people who build websites themselves.
Which plan suits your website?
- A landing page or one-page site — a small plan with one website and a few GB is enough.
- A small business website — needs daily backups and a few email accounts.
- An online store — more space, more databases and priority support, because every minute offline costs sales.
- Several projects — unlimited websites and more resources.
What WebStrategy offers
We build websites and run their hosting, so you have one partner for development, hosting and support.
| Plan | Price | Websites | SSD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 15 GEL/month | 1 | 5 GB | 5 |
| Plus | 20 GEL/month | 3 | 15 GB | 15 |
| Business | 35 GEL/month | 10 | 40 GB | 50 |
| Pro | 70 GEL/month | Unlimited | 100 GB | Unlimited |
Every plan includes free SSL, cPanel, PHP 8 and MySQL, spam and malware protection, and local support. From the Plus plan up we migrate your site for free, and every plan comes with a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Conclusion
Cheap but slow or unstable hosting ends up costing more: you lose visitors, orders and Google rankings. Choose hosting that is fast, secure and backed by people you can reach.
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Moving from another host? See website migration — 100–250 GEL, with no downtime.
