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.
1.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.
2.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. Find out more at http://www.host4profit.com/632628
3.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. Host4profit however offers its client a 3GB bandwidth
per month. Can you see why everybody is switching to Host4profit
now?
4.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
Arvind Gawade is a fully certified IT expert/consultant.
He holds a Diploma in Information Technology specializing
in Network Engineering. He is also an internet marketing
expert that has been providing marketing services on the
web for the past 2 years. Arvind will train you to become
an internet expert for free and also build a free website
for you within 24 hours. Visit his site for more info
at: http://www.neptune500.com/pips
