When I first wrote this a couple of years ago the Google results were as written.
Now when you search for hosting Google returns 336,000,000 pages.
Head on up to the Google search engine (www.google.com)
and do a search for hosting and Google will return about 46,700,000 results.
How do you decide what you need?
How do you know if a host is good?
What do you need to look for in a host?
When you compare your virtual "location" or host server with a
brick and mortar storefront then a few similarities come to the fore.
As with a real world business that is open 24 x 7 your hosting
company should have an excellent record of up time and most do.
Choose according to your needs.
Most static, non database websites rarely exceed 5 megs in size so for all
intents and purposes you can ignore the extra of anything more than, say, 10 meg
if you are not putting in a shopping system.
However a CRELoaded PHP/MySQL system will use 10 megs by itself.
Our Budget Hosting
solution offers 250 MB Disk Space - More
than enough for most sites.
Be careful of limitations on bandwidth.
While it usually takes a site a long time to even approach their bandwidth, it
will pay the user to monitor their bandwidth on a regular basis.
A page like this could be downloaded over 100,000 times with a 10 GB plan.
Be prepared for success.
Be prepared to pay for success. When it is time to upgrade to a higher
bandwidth, you will be able to afford it.
Evaluating your intended hosting company.
If they have a BBS system, take a peek around.
Be on the lookout for complaints and time to resolutions.
I usually contact a company that I wish to use by email and ask their service
department a couple of questions. I judge their company on their response time.
Your basic needs are:
- A stable server on a major internet backbone.
- Server administration software. 0Grief gives each client
a CPanel admin
- Fast reliable support. Contact us by live support,
instant text messengers, or email.
- Scalable - Be prepared to grow.
- Full email options. Unlimited accounts, unlimited
aliasing, and a catch all system that directs everything before the @ to
your primary account.
- Webmail.
- Full cgi-bin access.
- PHP/MySQL support.
- Front Page Extensions.
- Secure option.
- Web Stats.
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