How do you choose a hosting platform?
Lately I’ve been juggling a couple of new project ideas, and every time I get to the hosting part, I hit the same dilemma — what should matter most? Reviews feel helpful, but half of them look either too positive or too angry to trust. Support speed also matters, especially when something breaks at night, and I’m picky about control panels because clunky ones drain my patience. How do you personally decide which platform to go with?
Whenever I prep for a new deployment, I note down a few must-haves first: stable uptime, clean monitoring integration, predictable network behavior, and backup settings that don’t take half a day to configure. Once those boxes are checked, the rest becomes way easier. I also make sure I run a light stress test after setup — not for performance, but to watch how the whole environment reacts when it’s under a little pressure.