Best 10 Web Hosting Companies in India

1. SITE UPTIME AND SPEED

You never wish your website to be down even for a second, isn’t it? If your site is not up, you won’t make money. It reflects badly on the business and you may lose the audience. Weak or poor hosting causes frequent downtime and slowness, thus affecting your entire business and leading to fewer sales or leads, poor traffic, and even a drop in SERP or Rankings in Google. 

A web server must respond quickly to requests made within India and elsewhere in the World, we've checked every host server's speed to find how quickly they respond.

Speed & Performance checklist we consider for a best web hosting in India:

• Web Hosting Servers in India- A closer connection is faster. Host offers servers in India is our 1^st choice to ensure the fastest connection for visitors from India.
• A CDN (content delivery network) is designed to decrease latency by having a network of proxy servers around the world. The nearest server location provides a better website speed or faster website. Hosts that offer CDN are equally faster as a local server.
• Host that has a promise of at least 99.9% uptime
• Host that offers SSD server will load a website faster than HDD spinning hard drives.
• Caching options for your WordPress websites to speed up high-traffic WordPress sites dramatically. Managed WordPress hosting with options like PHP 7 opcode caching, Memcached/Redis object caching, Nginx/Varnish full page caching, CDN, and ElasticSearch/Solr full-text searching.

2. SECURITY AND BACKUP 

A web host that helps you keep your site secure through SSL certificates, regular backups, firewalls, proactive monitoring, software updates, etc.

Security checklists we consider for the best web host:

• Hosts that offer daily or weekly backup option is our 1^st choice. Regular backup is essential to secure your data every time. If hackers try to gain access to your site and install some sort of malware, not only it will impact your visitors but Google will display an embarrassing message warning of the threat. If your site is backed up regularly you should be able to get back to your website.
• Hosts keep software up to date to ensure the security of your website. Note, it is equally important to keep the s/w’s updates you use from your end.
• Hosts run the latest versions of server software like PHP, Apache, MySQL.
• Hosts provide automatic updates of content management softwares (CMS) like  WordPress).
• Hosts provide Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to find new vulnerabilities and protect you.

3. CUSTOMER SERVICE & SUPPORT 

Hosts that offer a high-level support team available 24/7. Sometimes you might experience website downtime issues like server compatibility or any kind of website issues. Hence, all-time available support is always essential in a web host along with support documentation options like Knowledgebase, tutorials, faqs, etc. 

4. FEATURES, LIMITATIONS & VALUE FOR MONEY 

Web hosts that provide all of the system software and services you’ll need to run and manage your website that is- CMS, operating system, control panel, database, web server, Programming Languages, FTP, SSH, Staging & website migration service, etc.

Knowing your hosting needs and having a clear idea of what you want, will certainly help you in choosing the suitable hosting service or hosting package that is packed with essential features.

When you choose a hosting package, make sure to check all the required features and the actual limits of resources of the particular plan you’re going to choose. Companies that claim “unlimited” still have limits on what they consider too much storage and bandwidth. Check those limits in their Terms of Service and Fair Use documents.