Choosing reliable web hosting
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Loading ...You might think at the beginning that you can use your own computer to publish your site, but remember there are many obstacles you need to deal with.
First problem is hardware and computer. You must not expect a home PC can act as server. You need a powerful server with 24 hour 7 days a week internet connection which is expensive.
In addition to hardware expenses you will also need to pay for software licenses and labor.
There must be some technicians to supervise your server functions and keep it bug and virus free.
Keeping the above points in mind, the best option is to host and publish your site through a reliable web hosting provider. But before you get a host you need to consider some important points and based on that you purchase your hosting plan.
1- Cost:
First you need to decide how much you are going to spend. If you do not want sell anything in your site and your site express your hobby and personal interests, then a free hosting like GeoCities might be suitable for you.
There are some restrictions and limitations imposed by free hosting providers like disk space, limited technical support, and no domain name and they publish their own advertisements on your site.
But if you need more professional web site with less than $3 to $10 per month you can publish your own site with more freedom.
2- Support:
Purchasing a hosting plan without proper support from hosting provider means throwing away
your money. It is important to make sure they will provide you a solid 24/7 support to all your technical sales questions. Email support, Toll Free phone must be part of their support system.
3- Backup:
A good hosting provider makes daily backup of your files, so if anything happens to server or your files, you are sure you will get back and can restore your site again.
4- Bandwidth:
If you are going to have lots of picture and image on your site, or you want to publish audio and video online, then make sure have sufficient bandwidth.
5- Disk space:
These days most of popular web hosting providers give you plenty of disk space but pay attention to allocated disk space.
6- Email:
Email is an important section in your decision making to purchase a hosting plan. Make
sure hosting provider supports POP and IMAP email, autoresponder, email forwarding, Catch All email, and spam assassin protection.
POP stands for Post Office Protocol. POP is a standard protocol to send and receive emails. You can read your mails using an email program such as Outlook or Thunderbird.
IMAP is an abbreviation of Internet Message Access Protocol. Like POP you read your mails with any email program. The difference between POP and IMAP is that with POP you access your emails only through one computer, but with IMAP you have access to your emails through different computers like one at home and one at work etc.
7- Database access:
Notice that your hosting company provides you with database access and the number of it. Most hosting providers give their customers unlimited MySql database access.
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