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Ensure that Your Business or Reputation is not Damaged by a Bad Web Host

Whilst by opting for an affordable hosting plan does not mean settling for poor support or less features, it is however important to be able to differentiate the cheap hosting companies from the cheap & nasty hosting companies that can cause you financial harm as well as to your reputation ...

Choosing the Right Web Host

It is important to be able to choose both the right web hosting plan for your needs as well as to ensure that the web host will live up to its promises and leave you in the dark with no service, website or email...

5 Key Things to Consider Before Selecting a Web Host

1. The Web Hosting Company's Credibility, Reliability & Track Record

   Probably the worst thing to happen to a website owner is for your Web Hosting Company to disappear from the face of the planet overnight.

   Not only are you are left totally in the dark, without email, without an online presence & without a website but your only choice is to look for a new host (a reliable one this time) and start from scratch again.

   So please make sure the hosting company is financially stable, has a sound track record and is in the web hosting business for the long term.

   For instance any reasonable person would probably choose a well known hosting name over a name like "Bubba's Red Hot Web Hosting"

2. What Type of Hosting Plan & Features Are Needed?

   Generally hosting companies provide the following sort of hosting options;

   • Shared Hosting - cheap options as many accounts & sites are hosted on one server
   • Reseller Hosting - also shared but allows you to create unlimited web sites under your own packages, prices, and brand.
   • Managed Hosting - similar to dedicated hosting but with fully managed solutions - much more expensive than shared hosting
   • Dedicated Hosting - provides a higher level of security, speed, and uptime.
3. Find Out What Their Former/Current Clients Say About Them

   Can your prospective host provide you with success stories for clients with similar configurations to yours? Are they able to provide references from clients who can tell you about their experience using that company?

4. After Signing Up with your Web Hosting Company, How Quickly can you have your Website Up and Running?
   You need to be able to start uploading files to your website's server within a few hours to minimize your site's downtime.
5. Disc Space & Bandwidth Requirements

   Disc Space is the amount of space measured in MB that your site's files use up on the host's server.

   Beware of hosts that advertise "unlimited web space" as somewhere in the fine print the host will have a provision to charge for exceeding a certain amount of space.

   However, having said that, most websites use less than 10MB of disc space & that is probably why hosting companies feel comfortable selling the "unlimited disc space" feature - many low cost hosting packages offer at least 500MB of disc space though.

   Data transfer or bandwidth is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site - or simply put the combined total of bytes uploaded to or downloaded from your site.

   Again many hosts offer unlimited bandwidth but again this is a sales pitch that may not really exist in reality - but again many hosting plans come with sufficient bandwidth allowance.

In conclusion make sure you get the best bang for your hosting buck from this high profile, professional web hosting company.

6 Things you need to know before you sign up for cheap hosting