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First and foremost, make sure that your potential webhost has outstanding customer service by testing them. Send an e-mail asking a small question like “how many e-mails do I get?” If it takes more than half a day, forget it. If you’re having problems publishing an update or publishing at all, you don’t want a response tomorrow or next week, you want one now. And the very last thing that you want to hear when they do respond is that the problem is your fault. That is not what you’re paying for. The problem is in their servers, they can fix it. The best time to test them at night or on the weekend. The reason is to make sure that they have a staff 24/7 and it’s not just some guy with his own server. Unfortunately sometimes it may be very hard to tell the difference until you have a problem, which brings us to the next point. Any decent company will have at least a 30 day money back guarantee. USE IT. Now that does not mean be a host jumper because you will never get anything done building a new website all the time. It does mean than if after a week or two if you don’t like the way things are going with the applications that they have or the terrible response time to a question, then dump them. Don’t feel like you are trapped. Some hosts will even give you special deal for switching hosts like adding six months hosting for free. Check to make sure that they have at least 99.9% uptime. Uptime is the amount of time that a host is online and your site can be accessed. All servers have to be restarted once in a while for various reasons but it should not take longer than a couple of hours a week. If your host is off line then you are off line. What that means is that you will lose much more than a little time. It means that every time Google or other search engines come through to update their files about your site all that they will see is ‘site down.’ Your site will then not even be listed because why would a search engine send a person to a site that is not even there? Some webhosts do have 100% uptime because they have redundant servers, so 99.9% is not too much to ask. Depending on the size of company and applications that you plan to use you may need a dedicated server. Almost all personal and small business hosting plans use shared hosting (multiple websites on one server.) Shared hosting is fine until the web host provider tells you that you are exhausting that one server and drawing all the resources away from the other websites. This will happen if a site has about 50 pages with RSS feeds, scripts, blogs and other applications on every page that are constantly updating. One common mistake, though not a bad one just expensive, is buying more hosting than you need. Find a site that explains just how much web hosting that you will need depending on your company size or applications and get the cheapest plan. It’s very easy to upgrade but near impossible to downgrade. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com |
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