Of course, the most important thing when choosing a provider is to make sure that they are fast, expedient and most of all reliable. That means that most of all they should guarantee its server up time. You should choose the host with figure of at least 99% of time even that is considered low by today’s standards. Higher is always better, keep that in mind at all times. The other big thing is bandwidth atonement. Well as we discussed before this means how much traffic your site will generate over a period of one month. Most web hosts will give you a limit that you can use in one month, keep in mind that the usage of your site will become wider as the site starts being more used and more linked. Be vary when dealing with providers that promise “unlimited bandwidth” , because they also have to pay for that, so they won’t treat you equally if you use up most of their bandwidth, and you will find in fine print how they manage to define the limit on “unlimited”.
Somewhat similar to that is the hard disk space that you will be allowed to use. Smaller sites take less space, rarely over 5MB, so keep that in mind when choosing a provider. Some will try and tempt you with “unlimited” disk space, and similar to above case it is rarely the case. And then there is the problem of tech support. You will want to know if they have a 24/7 support. If your website is at all serious, you will need support that is there all the time, you never know when things can go wrong. Some advertise that they have round the clock support, you should test this by e-mailing them at midnight or during holidays and see, how much it takes them to e-mail back.
If you want to do business through your site, you will want to check for availability of SSL and Shopping Cart services. SSL will allow the use of credit cards, which is really important. Furthermore, when using a commercial hosting service you must be certain that they offer all of the following services: FTP, MySQL, PHP, Perl, SSI, telnet, crontabs, SSH and .htaccess. Some providers will not let you install scripts on your site, without them approving it. This can be somewhat unproductive and lover the overall functionality of your site.
Owning a serious web site means that you probably want personalized e-mail address. Also auto responders are needed if you want to e-mail automated messages and responses. Pop3 is needed if you want to use e-mailing software. Then you have the Control Panel. To put it basically this is the interface with which you control your website with. It is sometimes called differently by hosts, it can have various options but should at least have some basic ones, for it is much more efficient to be able to edit some of the content yourself instead of waiting for the technical support every time.
If you wish to sell extra space to multiple domains, you should check whether they have this option, and how are they charging it. Also check what type of operating system the server is running. While this might not seem important at first glance, it all depends on the type of scripts you want to run.
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