7. Price

7. Price

Accommodation normally cost you somewhere between $ 5.00 - $ 10.00 dollars a month depending on the features of the plan. Anything below $ 5.00 a month, although it may seem like a lot at the front, may have to cut corners to offer such rates. Ever heard the saying "you get what you pay for?". Do research on lower cost providers to determine how they use your dollar and you receive for it. Likewise anything above $ 12.00 per month should be packed with features, or perhaps include a free domain name * and something other providers do not offer.

6. Uptime / Reliability

6. Uptime / Reliability

Availability is an important factor in choosing your supplier. Does the supplier offer a guarantee of performance? Specifically, you some (or all) of your monthly fee reimbursement if you experience prolonged periods of downtime? Do they offer a money back guarantee? Most hosts repay all or part of your monthly fee (if you were not spamming or doing something illegal) if you are not satisfied with their services after a period of time and decide to cancel your service.

You can also search for a testimonials page to see what their customers are saying about them. Ask friends and colleagues they host their site with, and vendor research to determine if they would be a good fit for your website.

5. Customer Service / Support

5. Customer Service / Support

Pre-sales

What is your preference on the customer service? Would you call and speak to someone live, or are you satisfied with the use of email to answering your questions? Many providers have a toll free number you can call to meet the pre-sales issues while others may provide a FAQ document pre-sales, live chat option or a member forum where you can scan messages and find answers to frequently asked questions. As a consumer, you want to make sure you have some options to choose from.

Support

Many vendors offer support through Help Desk software online. Rather than linking telephone lines using live, they use their Help Desk to facilitate support requests from users. Some suppliers may have forums where you can ask questions and receive help from other hosting customers. If you feel that you are not internet savvy, check whether you can benefit from live phone support. Be aware that you may be required to pay extra for the privilege.

4. Dedicated Servers / Shared

4. Dedicated Servers / Shared

The fundamental difference between a dedicated and shared server is shared servers that host many sites, while a dedicated server typically hosts a website.

A major advantage of a shared server is the cost savings. Single Shared hosting costs less. Spamming and how to avoid having your site blacklisted from different search engines has been a recent concern however with shared hosting environments. What is the impact of me, you might ask? If you share a server with an adult site that sends spam and eventually abandoned by the search engines because of this, your site (once registered) might be inadvertently deleted if you share the same IP address.

3. Scripts and Utilities

3. Scripts and Utilities

Will you need to store dynamic information online about your products, services or customers? So if you want to be sure your plan provides a database tool. Databases are extremely versatile and can vary in flavor depending on the operating system you choose for your hosting server. For example, the main freeware database tool in a Linux hosting environment is MySql. Most hosts provide this tool for you without extra cost. However, your hosting plan may limit the number of databases, you can create, so carefully examine every hosting plan offered and take notes for the decision later.

2. Bandwidth

2. Bandwidth

What is it anyway? Bandwidth is a measure of the amount of information (data) can be transferred from your web site and is calculated over a defined period of time, usually a month. Whenever anyone asks of content on your site (pages or images) from their Web browser, this counts as the use of bandwidth. Sites that have large pages or large images that have not been properly optimized will exhaust the bandwidth resources much faster than websites that optimize and control page and file image sizes with heavy traffic. Before you upload your website, optimize your content and images to get more bandwidth value for your dollar. Research how much traffic you anticipate having initially. For example, will you launch your marketing campaigns immediately after your site launches or will you wait a few months?

1. Disk Space

1. Disk Space

This is the amount of vendor storage space allocation to store your website. Hosting plans will vary from 25 MB to GB to accommodate the full range of needs. If your site is already built, you can usually determine how much storage space is required by adding the file sizes of your pages and images. This is the minimum amount of space you need for your website. A general rule is to buy a plan that may have more resources than you need for the moment, but offers the opportunity to develop; after all, the overall goal is just to growth?