Web Hosting Services

Your Web Hosting Service Can Make the Difference Between Success and Failure!

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Selecting a Web Hosting service is very critical to the success of your business. Consider the following topics before selecting a hosting service or hosting your own Web server.

1. How will the Web Hosting service help promote (market) your site?

2. What type of technical support does the Hosting service offer?

3. Does the Web Hosting service host sites that may be objectionable to your customers? (Will associating with these pages cause your company any harm?)

4. What are their disaster recovery provisions?

5. How fast do the Host's own pages download? (This gives you insight into the Hosting services bandwidth capability.)

What is the bandwidth capability of your prospective Web host? You need to know how much data they currently transfer and their peak transfer times.

Consider the web host's plans for expanding its bandwidth capabilities.

The type of data line connections the service uses can determine the bandwidth capabilities of a web hosting service. Obviously, the faster the data line, the more the web host pays for the connection.

6. What server resources are available and do they cost extra?

Does the server offer data encryption for credit card transactions?

Does the server support the creation of server-generated files created by CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts or database created ASP (Automatic Server Pages)?

For more information on topics to consider when selecting a hosting service, check C|Net Central's informative article on Web Hosting.

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