Small web hosting company vs larger web hosting company

[HostXNow]

We offer a lot more resources and the personal support with us being a smaller provider. So you can get both! Unfortunately, too many put up with the larger providers because they think it is too much hassle to move to a different provider, when in fact it does not take long at all.

 

[Traveler]

True but you can always try them for a month or 2 to see if they are good or not.

 

[JohnQ]

Yes sir @Marcos. There were even a couple of time it took about a day and a half! Crazy right?

 

[Soulwatcher]

My personal opinion is go for the decent well know web hosting companies. While it hasn't happened to me, I have read tons of horror stories about small web hosts closing shop and people losing everything. It's just not worth the risk if you care about your website.

 

[Marcos]

My personal opinion is go for the decent well know web hosting companies. While it hasn't happened to me, I have read tons of horror stories about small web hosts closing shop and people losing everything. It's just not worth the risk if you care about your website.

That is a very good point to bring up and one I did not think about. I have heard of domain registrars closing and there was big problems for their customers so I am sure it can be bad if this happens to the customers of a web hosting company also.

Many people do not have adequate backups also and that would cause many problems.