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HOW TO CHOOSE A WEB HOST FOR YOUR HOME
BASED BUSINESS
Several owners of home based businesses
are wondering how to choose the best
host for their businesses.
This article gives some points which
should be satisfied by the web hosting
company you are going to do business
with.
The best web hosting company should have
the following:
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Plenty of band width – Your web
hosting company should have enough
band width to provide good speeds
for your business web site. This is
a crucial requirement as online
customers are very impatient and
don’t tolerate slow web sites.
Switching hosts is
a painful affair. Also, there are
companies that charge you more for band
width usage. Therefore, shop around a
bit and find a company that offers you
the required amount of band width at an
affordable price.
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Up date to MySQL and PHP – This is
important if you want to run any
type of script or software program
from the server. For example, a
shopping cart application or a
customer database.
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Technical Support – you should be
able to reach them easily when you
have any problems or queries or when
the web site goes down. Each second
your website is offline, you will
lose some amount of money.
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Cost – Going with a web host who is
the cheapest will surely cause your
downfall. Just like with all other
products, you will only get that
much for which you pay. Therefore,
when you are choosing a web host,
find the best hosting company within
your budget.
There are a huge
number of web sites where you will find
reviews of web hosting companies. Read
them to get a better idea about the
companies.
It is very
important to get the hosting service
direct from source, as you will get
better technical support. The reseller
will not be able to provide the same
quality of support as provided by the
source.
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Speed – How fast will the visitors
be able to view your web site? This
depends on how well the business
servers are managed by your hosting
company, processor speeds and how
much primary memory they have. It
also depends on your choice of
hosting, whether you want to put
your site on a dedicated server or
on a shared server.
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Up time – As with speed, the up time
of your web site is also very
important for the success of your
online business. Many web hosting
companies will advertise that their
servers are up 99.9% of the time.
This cannot be true, since the
servers also need maintenance.
Therefore, find out what their true
up times are before you register
with them.
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User Friendly – if you have a
control panel or server that is too
complicated to use, then the purpose
will not be served. You don’t want
to spend most of your time with the
technical support team asking them,
questions. The best web hosting
company will have a user friendly
control panel that can be used by
any person who is not familiar with
computers.
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