As we all have realized over the years, having a website can significantly add to a company’s profit. It goes without saying that you must select a good quality, reliable web host to host your site.
It is very important that you are given easy access to your account using either Telnet or SSH, for modifying the site as and when you need. It is even more important to make sure that other users on the shared hosting server are unable to access and read your files on your account !.
Once you migrate from simple html pages to a more advanced technology based site, it’s important to have the facility to use numerous Apache modules such as the mod_rewrite engine, and various other developer tools like PHP, MySQL, Perl, Ruby on Rails, SSL, CGI, etc…You must be able to host an “UNLIMITED” number of sites on your hosting account. While this facility sounds very expensive, many hosting providers offer this with their packages for next to nothing !.
For any decent web hosting company, guaranteed uptime must be around 99.9%, this will avoid all the hassle, stress and worry that you have to go through when your site is down for a long time. The service and support they offer must be competent to make you feel confident about hosting with them. While regular maintenance and upgrading is admirable, they should be well planned ahead and users should be informed well in advance. Having 24/7/365 Support is always useful. I found support to be very useful during the initial stages.
It’s important to make sure that you are offered cpanel access, and availability of “fantastico”. This enable even a newcomer to comfortably and confidently setup a site or a Blog in a few minutes, simply by pointing and clicking.
With a Web Hosting Company for Small Business, always make sure that there is a money back guarantee at least for the initial period !, so if things don’t workout you can simply move elsewhere, and get your money back. It’s even more important to make sure that you are not tied to a long term contract. While some companies offer ultra cheap packages, they require you to be bound to a long term contract, or you have to pay a lump sum to cover hosting fees for more than 6 months.
Server storage has become very cheap over the years with all the technological advances, however some companies still charge a lot for the amount of storage they provide or they provide less storage !. While initially this is not going to be an issue, it’s a critical factor for your future growth.
Bandwidth, is the monthly allowed bandwidth, a very important factor when you start getting a large amount of traffic. Make sure that you will not have to pay for exceeding the badnwidth.
So if you managed to find a host and they match the above selection criteria, then you have made a good start.
In my experience “Hostgator baby” has met all of the above criteria throughout the years, and to date I am quite happy hosting with their services as a Web Hosting Company for Small Business.
It is very important that you are given easy access to your account using either Telnet or SSH, for modifying the site as and when you need. It is even more important to make sure that other users on the shared hosting server are unable to access and read your files on your account !.
Once you migrate from simple html pages to a more advanced technology based site, it’s important to have the facility to use numerous Apache modules such as the mod_rewrite engine, and various other developer tools like PHP, MySQL, Perl, Ruby on Rails, SSL, CGI, etc…You must be able to host an “UNLIMITED” number of sites on your hosting account. While this facility sounds very expensive, many hosting providers offer this with their packages for next to nothing !.
For any decent web hosting company, guaranteed uptime must be around 99.9%, this will avoid all the hassle, stress and worry that you have to go through when your site is down for a long time. The service and support they offer must be competent to make you feel confident about hosting with them. While regular maintenance and upgrading is admirable, they should be well planned ahead and users should be informed well in advance. Having 24/7/365 Support is always useful. I found support to be very useful during the initial stages.
It’s important to make sure that you are offered cpanel access, and availability of “fantastico”. This enable even a newcomer to comfortably and confidently setup a site or a Blog in a few minutes, simply by pointing and clicking.
With a Web Hosting Company for Small Business, always make sure that there is a money back guarantee at least for the initial period !, so if things don’t workout you can simply move elsewhere, and get your money back. It’s even more important to make sure that you are not tied to a long term contract. While some companies offer ultra cheap packages, they require you to be bound to a long term contract, or you have to pay a lump sum to cover hosting fees for more than 6 months.
Server storage has become very cheap over the years with all the technological advances, however some companies still charge a lot for the amount of storage they provide or they provide less storage !. While initially this is not going to be an issue, it’s a critical factor for your future growth.
Bandwidth, is the monthly allowed bandwidth, a very important factor when you start getting a large amount of traffic. Make sure that you will not have to pay for exceeding the badnwidth.
So if you managed to find a host and they match the above selection criteria, then you have made a good start.
In my experience “Hostgator baby” has met all of the above criteria throughout the years, and to date I am quite happy hosting with their services as a Web Hosting Company for Small Business.
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