1. Purchase
only what you need
Ask yourself: what do I really need to run my web site? Reply
to this question and then select a web hosting solution that
corresponds with your needs. Avoid to purchase an oversized
account only because you think big. Start to purchase only the
services that your site will require. If it is a good hosting
provider you can always upgrade the service. Avoid to unnecessarily
increase your costs.
2. Easy
upgrade and scalable solution
The hosting company has to provide you with a scalable solution
so you can upgrade the service quickly and easily when your
business grows and your site attract more visitors. This means
increased bandwidth, database support, server-side scripting
till ... multimedia streaming.
3. 24
x 7 prompt customer and technical support
Customer support and technical support is essential. Select
only who offers an online area with FAQs (frequently asked questions),
guides, tips, and other resources. Select only who offers toll-free
technical support rendered by technicians that have "years
of experience" and have been trained extensively.
4. Speed
connections and adequate bandwidth
There is no exact way of measuring how "good" a connection
to the Internet is. Many providers will brag about "multilple
T3 ATM backbone" when the "backbone" is just
what their 56k ISDN line is connected to those who really do
have their servers directly connected to T3's. Be careful!
5. User-friendly
and secure hosting administration
Not so many companies around offer a real solution to this.
Having the possibility to administer your web site easily and
promptly will actually save you much time and money. So ask
yourself how user-friendly is the software to administer your
site? How secure is it?
6. Scripts,
applications and many other features
A good web hosting company should offer several basic scripts
as for instance guestbooks, forms, statistics, counters but
also should leave the possibility to run your own scripts.
They must be able to provide you support or availability for
e-commerce,
multimedia solutions and additional stuff.
7. Secure
environment
Many hosting providers out there claim to be secure but when
you look a little bit more in detail you discover that they
can't really truly protect you from hackers and internet pirats.
Check it out! The web hosting company should have specialized
personnel dealing with this important aspect.
8. Lat
but not least ... the price
Don't look only for cheap prices. Cheaper is not necessarily
better, but also an expensive service could be not repaid or
not worth the investment.
Be careful of the "special deals" and look for experienced,
trustworthy, with good service and support, with long track
record and good infrastructure company.
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