How Hosting Provider Affect Your Site Speed

While you are trying hard to improve your website performance, have you ever thought that your hosting provider can affect site speed as well? In fact, web hosting is an often-overlooked factor when it comes to site speed. A web server has to execute thousands of codes, run database queries and server files whenever a user tries to load a page. The faster your web server is, the faster the user will access the requested pages. So, your choice of web hosting provider or package plays a crucial role in page loading speed.

Factors of hosting packages that affect your website speed and performance

Hard drive: Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are two kinds of hard drives that you can choose from. SSDs use flash memory which is capable of faster file loading, and boost up the performance of the web server.

Dedicated Resources: Choosing a dedicated server to host your website can prevent the other sites from consuming your site’s resources like memory and processor, which will in turn slow down your loading speed.

More Resources: With more memory and processing power, your web server can execute requests more quickly. It will help escalate the speed of your site. A dedicated server will offer considerably more resources.

High Bandwidth: Bandwidth affects how much data your web host can actually transfer. With higher bandwidth, you are less likely to experience traffic hiccups during peak hours and website breakdown during high traffic spikes.

Upgrading your hosting plan will give you a considerably faster site speed, especially if your website has high traffic or resource-intensive. It is perfectly fine for a small business to go with a shared hosting plan if it only has a few visitors per day. However, if you have a large amount of traffic or your website has lots of video streaming, or other applications that are resource-intensive, a shared hosting plan will not be capable of handling. You should go for a dedicated server which gives you full control of resource allocation and probably more memory and processing power. What you should keep in mind is – code optimization is not the only way to enhance your site speed. Remember to cross-check if your hosting package needs an upgrade to further enhance performance. We offer a variety of hosting plans that are suitable for individuals and businesses of all range and sizes. Feel free to contact us by email at sales@dataplugs.com to learn more about our web hosting plans.