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How to Consider a Web Host?

Now that your website was built. Your next task is to find a web hosting company that will not cost you more money and time.

The things you need to find selection of a good web host is to make sure they have a high-speed connection (T3 or higher) to the Internet, price is competitive, reliable servers (hardware ad software), they have plans available for your expansion, high bandwidth, backup system, quality of support service (how they handle your complaints and speed of responds), they can give you email addresses, FTP access or file manager and other features such as allow scripting (cgi or php or asp) and database (SQL or MySQL). Sometimes they allow you to use their existing scripts to your website.
Speed
Make sure they have high-speed connection (T3 or higher) to the Internet. Expect your visitor not to come back again or disconnect their connection of opening your site if you're website is very slow.

Price
It must be competitive. Expect to pay $3 to $50 per month for your 5 pages website. Some web host gives you discounts if you pay them annually. Most small web sites uses only 2 to 5 MB web space. Choose a plan based on the size of your website.

Reliability
Ask them the server specifications and the uptime guaranteed. If the computer they use is in the top brand and model, and 99% guarantee then you are lucky. But no one can give you 100% guarantee because there are times the earthquake and other disasters strikes. Ask them the issues involve when there's disasters and how will they answer it? Ask them about the backup system, if they have.

Expansion
Most of the web hosts have different plans on expansion. Ask them if you can upgrade your plan later.

Badwidth
Aware on this one because if they give you low bandwidth, you're site will not be viewed. It will happen if your site has traffic.

The entire video hosting industry involved in beneficial if you want a video solution and the user uploading videos on your site. This kind of web hosting ( ffmpeg hosting ) offers maximum reliability and flexibility.

Support
The quality of support is based on their speed of response and how they solve their problems. Most of the web hosts have experienced engineers doing the maintenance and support. Make sure you can contact them 24/7 by phone or email. Ask them more before you sign up. Europe's top data center provider.

Features
These are some of the basic feature of a Web Host:
- Domain name registration
- At least 5MB of allocated space
- Unlimited bandwidth
- POP3 E-Mail Accounts
- Email Forwarding
- Email Auto-responders
- Email Aliases
- FTP Access
- FrontPage Support
- Own CGI-Bin Access
- Free Scripts
- Scripting (CGI,ASP,PHP,etc.)
- Server Side Includes (SSI)
- Secured Socket Layer (SSL)
- Password Protection
- Free Technical Support
- 30 day money back guarantee
- Room for expansion

Plan your website carefully because in the future you may need to add more pages and add more programs. Fewer features, less consideration.