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CHOOSING THE RIGHT WEB HOST:
Choosing a web host is the first step towards building a website,
There are a few features that show how good a web host is:
1) More than 99.7% uptime
2) Been in business since over 1 year.
3) Does not oversell
4) Offers true 24/7 support
5) Owns all the hardware of the company (servers)
6) The host should possess a huge amount of good reviews and very few negative reviews
1) More than 99.7% uptime:
You would not want your web site to be down every now and then,it would cause major losses to
your business as well as harm to your reputation.
99.7%+ uptime is the most critical factor for a webhost.
You can find out their uptime by directly asking them for uptime details, they will provide a link
to a 3rd party website(example: siteuptime.com) that monitors uptime.
2) Been in business since over 1 year.
There are many hosts who will tend to lie about their date of establishment..You can bust their
lie by:
Running a who is check to find date of domain registered,
If the date of domain registered is after the date they claim they started their business, BEWARE!
ARCHIVE.ORG,
There are many web hosts who will purchase old domains from domain dealers and claim they started
out on the day the domain was registered, you can catch their lie by checking their domain at
archive.org, If the domain wasn't used for web hosting before the current owner bought it, you will
see a parked page or something like that!, you can come to know when they came into being by just
checking their history on archive.org and locating the page which looks like a webhost's website
3) Does not oversell:
You can come to know a web host does not oversell when he is comparitively more expensive than
his competitors.
Do not pay less than the following price for web hosting:
Diskspace: $1/GB per month
Bandwidth: $0.05/GB per month
Below that rate, the web host would be a nasty overseller, and would cause you problems later on.
The apt price to pay for web hosting is:
Diskspace: $4/GB per month
Bandwidth: $0.30/GB per month
4) Offers true 24/7 support
You can come to know if a web host offers true 24/7 support or not by popping them a support
ticket every 6 hours for one day...if they take over 30 minutes to answer any one of the ticket,
BEWARE...
5) Owns all hardware of the company
A web host who owns all it's hardware is always reliable since they would use the best quality
and breed of servers..., generally such hosts are more reliable than resellers since they would be
directly liable for any kind of problems or downtime, they cant blame the datacenter.
You should never buy hosting from a reseller, no matter how trust worthy he is, because it is not
the reseller who matters, it is the company from whom he has bought his reseller package that
matters.
6) The host should possess a huge amount of good reviews and very few negative reviews
You can always find out the existing reputation of a web host by visiting "web hosting discussion
forums".Just go to the search section on the forum and search for the web host's name...all articles
and reviews related to the web host will show up...
You can also use google for the same purpose.
This article was written by Virat Shah, president of http://www.YPHost.com/, a web hosting company
that strives to make it easy to setup and maintain your website.Reprint Freely as long as you link
back to my website along with my name (stating me as the author of this article)
Choosing a web host is the first step towards building a website,
There are a few features that show how good a web host is:
1) More than 99.7% uptime
2) Been in business since over 1 year.
3) Does not oversell
4) Offers true 24/7 support
5) Owns all the hardware of the company (servers)
6) The host should possess a huge amount of good reviews and very few negative reviews
1) More than 99.7% uptime:
You would not want your web site to be down every now and then,it would cause major losses to
your business as well as harm to your reputation.
99.7%+ uptime is the most critical factor for a webhost.
You can find out their uptime by directly asking them for uptime details, they will provide a link
to a 3rd party website(example: siteuptime.com) that monitors uptime.
2) Been in business since over 1 year.
There are many hosts who will tend to lie about their date of establishment..You can bust their
lie by:
Running a who is check to find date of domain registered,
If the date of domain registered is after the date they claim they started their business, BEWARE!
ARCHIVE.ORG,
There are many web hosts who will purchase old domains from domain dealers and claim they started
out on the day the domain was registered, you can catch their lie by checking their domain at
archive.org, If the domain wasn't used for web hosting before the current owner bought it, you will
see a parked page or something like that!, you can come to know when they came into being by just
checking their history on archive.org and locating the page which looks like a webhost's website
3) Does not oversell:
You can come to know a web host does not oversell when he is comparitively more expensive than
his competitors.
Do not pay less than the following price for web hosting:
Diskspace: $1/GB per month
Bandwidth: $0.05/GB per month
Below that rate, the web host would be a nasty overseller, and would cause you problems later on.
The apt price to pay for web hosting is:
Diskspace: $4/GB per month
Bandwidth: $0.30/GB per month
4) Offers true 24/7 support
You can come to know if a web host offers true 24/7 support or not by popping them a support
ticket every 6 hours for one day...if they take over 30 minutes to answer any one of the ticket,
BEWARE...
5) Owns all hardware of the company
A web host who owns all it's hardware is always reliable since they would use the best quality
and breed of servers..., generally such hosts are more reliable than resellers since they would be
directly liable for any kind of problems or downtime, they cant blame the datacenter.
You should never buy hosting from a reseller, no matter how trust worthy he is, because it is not
the reseller who matters, it is the company from whom he has bought his reseller package that
matters.
6) The host should possess a huge amount of good reviews and very few negative reviews
You can always find out the existing reputation of a web host by visiting "web hosting discussion
forums".Just go to the search section on the forum and search for the web host's name...all articles
and reviews related to the web host will show up...
You can also use google for the same purpose.
This article was written by Virat Shah, president of http://www.YPHost.com/, a web hosting company
that strives to make it easy to setup and maintain your website.Reprint Freely as long as you link
back to my website along with my name (stating me as the author of this article)
