Here are the main things you need to consider when you are searching for a web hosting provider in Egypt.
You have a website and you want to host it, or you want to create a new one, or you don't have a site at all and just want an active domain name so you can start using business email services. Here are the main things to consider when you are searching for a web hosting provider in Egypt.
1. Support
This is the most important factor to take into consideration when searching for a web hosting provider in Egypt. When you have a problem, is there someone available to help you? And if there is someone available, are they professional enough to give you the support you actually need? Test this before you commit: send a question to the provider before you are a customer and see how long the answer takes and how useful it is.
2. History
As a business owner you don't want to hand your domain, hosting and email service to a freelancer, or to a company that started trading a couple of years ago. Find a company with enough history to make you confident it will still be in the market later. Many freelancers and companies started in this field and stopped after a few months or a few years — and sometimes they stop without giving their clients vital information about their domain.
3. Email stability
Another important factor is how stable the email services are. Will you face repeated technical problems related to the server? When you have a tricky problem, is there a professional investigation to solve it — even if the cause is on your side? Don't worry too much about website uptime: almost all web servers now provide very high uptime, and unless the site has a security issue, the hosting side generally goes fine with almost any provider. What makes the real difference is the email service.
Websites are broadly reliable everywhere. Email is where a hosting provider is really tested.
A short checklist before you sign
- Is the domain registered in your name, with your contact details?
- Are backups taken daily, stored off-server, and can you request a restore?
- Is SSL included, and is it renewed automatically?
- Are SPF, DKIM and DMARC records configured for your mail?
- Do you get a named contact, or only a ticket form?
- Is migration from your current provider included at no extra cost?
- What are the published support hours, and what happens outside them?
Linux or Windows?
If your site runs WordPress, PHP or MySQL, choose Linux with cPanel. If it runs ASP.NET or needs Microsoft SQL Server, choose Windows. If you are not sure, ask the provider to tell you which one your application needs — a provider that offers both, as we do, has no reason to push you toward the wrong one.