Questions you should ask your web host before signing up!

Questions you should ask your web host before signing up!

So you are looking to build a web site with your sick or current host that you are wanting to transfer your site to somewhere else? You may not even be aware of your current hosts vulnerabilities in an industry where every week there is news about a host going down for one reason or another.

Your first problem is narrowing the thousands of choices down to a few you can look further. Seek friends or associates who have a website and ask their advice.

Visit one of the many forums on accommodation, ask members for advice or looking son of those who applied before you.

Once you have located a few guests looking to the ten questions below take you a long way in making an informed decision. You may be able to find many answers to these questions hosts sites, but always feel free to call the host and test them on their operations. The quality of the answers and the level of professionalism that you get from a potential host often transfers to the type of support you get once you become a customer. Without further ado, the ten request to ask your host:

1. How long has the host been in business net?

2. How many Web service providers upstream net host does have?

3. Does the net host its own information environment?

4. Does the host provide 24/7/365 net phone and email support?

5. Does the net host monitor its customers' sites 24 hours a day? What?

6. What are the levels of redundancy does the architecture of the net hosts provide?

7. Does the net host automatically backup customer web sites in case of loss of information? How many times?

8. Does the net host providing the features you need for your website?

9. What is the billing policy of net hosts?

10. Does the net host have the products and services to manage your growth?