Month: July 2007

Author: Joel Higgs 6 Keys to locate most suitable hosting provider… Technical Support: Live support is preferred. Next comes email support, which is a must! Prices/Money Back Guarantee: Many web hosting companies does not offer a money-back guarantee, however it is important to have especially when you want to switch companies, try out the services. Upgrades Pakages Available: Skip web-hosting company that only offers one package. You would need more space and bandwidth as you expands your online business. Especially bandwidth, as you do not want your server to be down when you traffic increases. Plan for expansion. Friendly Control Panel: Cpanel is one of the most popular control panels for web hosts to offer, but there are others. Ask what type of control panel your web host is offering to provide you with. This is important for beginners, as an easier interface means easier tasks for making updates to their website/accessing emails. Added Features: Instant Install is a feature offered by most web hosts these days. Other features like forums, blogs and guestbooks should be available for installation. Reviews/Feedback from Users: While looking at the prices, tools available on these web hosting companies, testimonials of our customers using these web hosting companies should also be checked out to see the experiences of these users that have actually used these products as ultimately it is these users that are...

Author: Don Fletchinger   Building a website is very easy as there are countless web hosts, software programs, and website builders on the internet to choose from. But building a website that really produces profits, that builds traffic and ranks among the top websites on the net is extremely difficult to do. Choose a hosting service that owns their own equipment and has high-speed connections to multiple Internet backbones, backup power generators and backup systems in place. Make sure they are a reliable business that has been around for awhile. Check their support system and make sure they offer 24/7 email, ticket system or live telephone support. Try their support team and see if they respond quickly enough for your needs and if their support staff is helpful and knowledgeable. You should be able to host at least one domain name. There should be no restrictions on sub-domains. Look for e-mail access as well. The better the service, the more options they will provide for email. Make sure to get ample disk space for your website and try to get as much bandwidth as possible. Also make sure that your hosting service includes a statistics program so you can monitor your website traffic on your website. If you plan on running a internet store or ECommerce shopping cart you need a hosting service that offers this service and supports...