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by Heris Yunora, Her

Following are the points that you need to observe in choosing a web hosting company:

-Web Space
It constitutes the storage capacity of the whole data as required by your web site. Depending of the type of web site you design, it is better that you also consider your future needs. For example, if you want to build an article directory website, you will need a hosting with large web space.

-Bandwith
Bandwith is the amount of data that is transmitted from your web site. The more visitors visit your web site, the more bandwith you require. It is to be noted that your requirements for web space have not certainly comparable with the requirements for bandwith. For example, if you set up a web site with an Amazon Store script, the web space required is not big, but you need to prepare the bandwith that will possibly consume several Gigas. Keep in mind that other than web site visitors, don't forget that various search engine bots that will make effort to crawl the whole webpages.

-Reliability
The web hosting company you are choosing should have uptime guarantee amounting to at least 99%. In that way, the presence of your web site will be secured for 99% of a time span.

-Speed
Having a web site that can always be accessed is not enough. Your web site must always be loaded rapidly. Otherwise you will be missing a lot of visitors.

-Customer Support
The presence of reliable customer support has to become one of your considerations in choosing a hosting company. A good hosting service provider must be able to be contacted anytime. This is particularly useful to overcome technical problems. If a hosting company provides an online chatting facility for communicating with their customer service, try to submit some requests and observe the way they are serving you.

-Cost
So as to get the best price, compare the pricing plan from several hosting providers that have similar features. Don't forget to conduct checking to the guarantee as provided and whether or not there are other additional costs.

-Technical Features
If later on you have an intention to use certain scripts, check whether the web hosting has complied with the criteria as required. Otherwise, it is better for you to choose a hosting company that has Linux/Unix as the operating system with PHP and MySQL features. There are so many online business support programs such as autoresponder and various CMS's that need server using Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL. Besides, various free open source programs usually need to enable them for being used. Don't also forget other technical needs, such as whether you will use Audio and Video Streaming or requiring Frontpage Extension.

-Number of Web site
If you have a plant to set up several web sites, choose the one that allow you for hosting your web sites as mentioned in one account (multiple domain hosting). In that way, there is no additional cost that must be spent every month.

Whatever web hosting provider that you choose, it depends on your requirements and the amount of budget that you want to spend. It is to be noted that cheap is not always equal to inferior and expensive is not always equal to good. Some hosting companies which are realiable and having complete enough features, it turns out that they are charging lower monthly cost than other companies which are offering equal or even less complete features. Make sure the web hosting plan you choose will fit your needs.

Happy Choosing...

First time you must answer the question which type of web hosting are you looking for. If you want to run a single web site shared hosting will be the right for your needs. For those who own multiple domains it will be better to buy reseller account or look around the web hosting industry and find some hosting plan which allows more domains under single account. Most web hosting companies allows only one domain hosted but because web hosting is very competitive market so if you will search carefully you will probably find some providers which offer more. If you want to drive an advanced business and need more system resources then acceptable on shared server you will need your own, dedicated or virtual private server.

As soon as you decide which type of web hosting is the best solution for your project you should make oneself clear about features you will to use. Consists your web site from static *.html files only or contains PHP or CGI scripts? Webmasters using PHP probably will need MySQL database. Most of web hosting providers offer these features in their basic hosting plans but some extremely cheap hosts (with prices about $1 or $2/month) limit you to use static pages only. If you decide to use some of these very cheap hosting plans make sure of the possibility and price to upgrade to higher plan with more features. Don't forget you don't need to be programmer to run dynamic web site. There is plenty of free PHP or CGI scripts on Internet.

OK, we made clear about the features like PHP, MySQL and CGI support. Now let's take a look at disk quote and bandwidth. Most hosts usually offer more disk space then you can ever need unless you run some web site like photo gallery or adult web site. 1 GB should be enough for 80 % of company presentations. A little harder decision-making can be by choosing ideal bandwidth quote. To discover how much bandwidth you need try bandwidth calculator at . But take the results with a grain of salt and by choosing the web hosting program make sure that your bandwidth limit is at least 2 - 3 x higher. Don't forget that during the time your site will go up in search engines and get more visitors who can pretty increase your bandwidth.

Last but not least read some web hosting reviews to discover how satisfied the customers of particular web hosting company are. Try to find their experience with technical support and server uptime. Discover how they are satisfied with control panel. Learn about any features which web hosts offers like web site builder or pre-installed scripts.

In the last step there will be necessary to compare prices. Find out if there is some setup fee. Setup fees usually depend on the billing period (if you sign up for 2 years plan you may pay less then if you order hosting for 1 month). Don't forget to discover how much you will pay for the domain name (some web hosting plans includes free domain name). Then take a look for some promotional coupon codes or special actions and choose the best offer.

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