What’s Causing Your Website Downtime?
Having a website that’s constantly going down or becoming unavailable can be incredibly frustrating for both users and webmasters. These frustrations can mean your followership may chose to abandon your website, losing valuable traffic and ultimately revenues for your website. There are a number of reasons that a website may be down, so let’s take an in-depth look at the top 5 reasons for your website downtime.
Poor Quality Web Hosting
It’s no secret that not all web hosts are created equally, and some hosts in particular are notorious for being down. These are often budget hosts that oversell their servers, or allow spammers to sign up for multiple accounts and hog server resources. This isn’t to say that there good quality budget hosting is an oxymoron; it’s just that the existence of it may be relatively rare. The old saying of “you get what you pay for” tends to be true more often than not when it comes to web hosting. With that said, there are also some budget hosts that outperform more expensive hosts because they are smaller companies, and may take more care in maintaining their servers. Again, hosting can be a very subjective and varied experience, but that doesn’t change the fact that low quality hosting, regardless of price, is one common reason for downtime issues.
