Choosing a Web host
There are some simple rules to follow when looking for a web host. The first rules is to avoid
free hosts whenever possible, it is easy to think that a free service is preferable to paying a
monthly fee however with web hosting this is defiantly not the case.
Paid hosting has several important advantages over free hosting. Firstly you will receive more
useful features with paid hosting. Technical support will be much better with help available
when you need it. Generally speaking Paid hosts will have much faster connections to the
internet so your site will appear quicker. Most importantly with paid hosting you won't have to
display a banner on each page advertising the Hosting Company and advertising to the world
that you are on a free host. With excellent hosting packages starting from $6.99 per month
there is no reason why you shouldn't go with a paid host.
The second simple rule concerns what operating system to choose. You will find hosts
offering you Windows Hosting or Linux Hosting, it is tempting to choose windows as it's
a name everyone knows and many people mistakenly believe that because their PC runs
windows they need a Windows Host but in this case they'd be wrong. Whichever hosting
package you choose you will receive a control panel through which you administer your
site these are graphical environments through which you can control many aspects of
your website from configuring your web mail and installing forum software to creating a
database. Take a lead from the marble halls of business most major companies host their
websites on Linux Servers. Linux Servers generally runs faster and are more secure than
a windows server. This is partly due to how the operating systems are built.
Windows try to include every possible function in the base package whilst Linux allows
the host company to add the functions they need.
The final thing to consider when choosing a host is the list of features they offer.
If you don't know much about html you can look for a host that supplies you with free
website building software and some of the better ones will even supply free Domain names.
You should look at a number of different companies and compare what they offer as standard
with their hosting plans. Technical aspects to consider are; the amount of disk space available
to you and how much monthly bandwidth you have to use. Look at how many email accounts you
can have the more the better. Customer support features should not be overlooked check to see
what their response time is and if it's anymore than an hour look elsewhere,
also consider if they offer a money back guarantee.
Look to see what additional services they include in the package for example do they offer daily backups?
Make sure that they offer support for PHP as this is quickly becoming the programming language of
choice with web programmers.
To conclude when choosing a website Host look for a paid host with Linux hosting and then
compare the packages on offer from a variety of companies.
About the author:
Petr Sejba is owner of Marble Host ( http://www.MarbleHost.com ),
a Web Hosting Company offering 99.9 % Uptime Guarantee, 24/7 Support with 1 hour Response Guarantee,
Free Domain Name, Generous Disk Space and Bandwidth, Web Site Builder and more at affordable prices.
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