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Business web hosting is what
you need. You have a website you need to put online.
When you look around on the internet, there are
thousands of choices. How do you choose the right
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Reliable web hosting
Hosting support when you need it
What level of support does the company offer you? You
may not need 24x7 service but is their support desk
open reasonable hours? Beware of companies that only
offer email web hosting support. Some of these companies
will tell you that they only offer email hosting support
in order to keep costs down. What they often don't say
is that they are doing the business part time and can't
possibly be available to answer the phone. When you
need help, you may have to wait days to get service.
Ecommerce web hosting
Do you plan to sell online? If so, does the web host
have shopping carts available? Are they included for
free or are they extra? Get the names of the ecommerce
shopping carts they provide, and research their capabilities
to be able to determine which one is best for you.
Website response times
Be sure to ask the hosting provider for a list of websites
that are hosted on their servers. Enter a few of them
into your browser and pay attention to how fast they
come up. If all of them take a long time to load, this
may indicate that the hosting provider's servers are
overloaded. Doing a ping on the website addresses is
another way to measure the time it takes for the server
to respond. Keep in mind though, that a ping test will
be more of a measure of a bandwidth bottleneck than
a server problem.
Web Hosting bandwidth: How much do you get?
How much bandwidth does the web hosting service provide
you with every month? If it is only 500mb per month
and your website is 50 kilobytes in size, this will
only allow 10,000 visitors per month to hit your website.
If you expect to need more, make sure you can live with
the extra charges the hosting provider will levy. If
you website traffic explodes, you may be on the hook
for large bandwidth overage charges.
Small business web hosting that is reliable is a vital
part of any success your company will experience online.
Doing yourhomework ahead of time will save you lots
of grief later on.
About The Author
Joe Duchesne is the president of Yowling.com. Business web hosting is their specialty. Reprint freely as
long as you provide a keyword rich clickable link back
to yowling.com from this resource box. |
