|
| |
Choosing Your Web Hosting Reseller Software
As a web host reseller, one of your most important business decisions is your choice of web hosting control panel software. The web hosting software you use will save or cost you time, money, and frustration. What reseller control panel features will ...
Learn What 98% Of Targeted Visitors Do On Your Website
Getting a Targeted Visitor to a website is a waste of time and money if you've got no idea what 98% of them do when they get there.I'm assuming that if you have a website selling products that your conversion rate is at least 2%. So you should know at ...
Web Site Hosting For Your Business – Free or Paid?
It’s time to choose! Should you spend some money to get a web hosting solution for your business or get one for free?Yes, the big moment has finally arrived. Your business is now on the verge of taking the next step forward. It will establish a web ...
|
|
|
|
| |
With the hundreds of
web hosting companies out there competing with one another to offer the "best " web hosting package on the internet and with all the hype that goes along with it, its easy to get confused or perhaps even purchase the package that is not right for us. Here are 4 essentials to look out for when choosing a web hosting platform for your website/business.
The reputation of the web hosting company.
Most web hosting companies on the web have been in existence for at least 2 years and they are usually handled by experience and IT savvy network engineers who can provide the necessary support and services to their customers. However, there are also several "mom and pop " set ups out there which are handled by amateurs who are greedy to make plenty of your own money without even knowing how to do something as fundamental as setting up your user account. Be sure to check the credentials of the web hosting firm by either reading their about us or the technology they use for their server farm. Make sure you pick a company that has been around for at the very least 2 years and have a successful track record with 95% up time for all its servers. That's a reasonable expectation as 100% is not a realistic aim in the computing world.
How much of storage space are you given?
Most web companies out the offer space that range from
as small as 20 MB to as big as 2GB or even more.
However, this depends largely upon you the user. Make
sure you do not get sold into buying more space then you
need. This is a common trend amongst novice web owners
who tend to feel that the bigger space the better and
the more powerful their website can be. That is the most
contorted statement I have ever heard in my 5 years as a
IT expert and internet marketing consultant. Personally,
I would recommend you to use Host4profit as your hosting
company because I find that they provide the most
innovative packages that even reward you by paying you
to be a member & in many other ways too one of which
includes a trip to the Bahamas.
What is the available bandwidth space for you to transfer data each month?
We all need to transfer data to our website and update its content often in order to stay afresh and also to keep our ratings high up on the search engines right? Well all web hosting companies offer a certain bandwidth or "transfer window " if you will to enable you transport your data
from your local computer hard disk drive to your web
server. However this transfer window has a limited
space. This is set to prevent the servers on their side
from having a bandwidth overload from users repeatedly
transferring large amounts of data to and fro without
any limits being set. A bandwidth space is allocated to
enable you to manage the amount data that you want to
transfer each month into the storage space allocated.
Note that the data you transfer is constantly kept track
of until you have reach the transfer limit for that
month. Most web hosting companies tend to be stingy on
this so as to provide so called "high speed data
transfer " to their clients. They usually cap this
bandwidth off at 1GB.
The support provided both online and offline to ensure you can sleep soundly at night.
This is the area that is overlooked most often whenever the novice webmaster signs up for a webhosting contract. It is absolutely important ( burn this into your head) I repeat absolutely important to ensure that you get a web hosting company that will answer your calls and ensure your website stays up and running even if you call them at 2 am in the morning to request for help. I am talking about 24 hours support everyday of the week and also relevant safety measures implemented in the data center at which your server resides. I highly recommend you find out more about the location of the data center about the power supply facilities, where it is situated and also the safety measures that have been put in place such as fire protection and relevant data backup facilities to a remote location as a safety should a physical destruction occur that literally wipes out the whole data center ( although I think this is highly unlikely unless George Lucas must have been tingling with the wrong button at his huge animation studios and manage to bring Darth Vader back to life).
About the Author
Danny Bitell is a fully certified IT expert/consultant. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
