Tips on hosting your website

Selecting a hosting company

In order to put your site up to get traffic, you need to have your site hosted by a web hosting company. And believe me when I tell you, it is a tough job when comes to selecting a hosting company. Why? Well, there are multiple web hosting companies out there! And there are many options that you have to consider when selecting the company to host your site.

• Price


• Disk size


• Bandwidth


• Database allowance


• Customer Service


• Up-time guarantee

Today, I will go over the different types of web hosting services...

Budget hosts

Budget host or cheap hosts, as they are called, are those that will host a site for less than $2.00 per month! And then there are companies that charge more then $100 per month to host you account! What's the different? Well, for cheap hosting companies, what you are getting is what's called a shared hosting. You are basically paying a low price per month to share the resources on one server with many other site owners just like yourself. What this means is that you site could get poor performance if all the sites hosted on that one server were to be accessed at the same time. There's only one server! And the people browsing to your site could be waiting... That's the bad thing about budget hosting companies.

Dedicated hosting

What's dedicated hosting? Well, this means that your website is the only site that's hosted on this one server. You would get performance benefits. However, you would pay much more for this benefits - like 10 or more times the price. You would pay $30 or more per month.

Lifetime hosting

There have been a few offers of lifetime hostings on the internet lately. What they are is that you pay a one time fee and you own hosting account. You would get a good size disk allowance as well as up to unlimited bandwidth.

This sounds too good to be truth. To tell you the truth, I almost signed up for this type of hosting service. However, the more I learned about hosting, the more I am staying clear of them! Why? Well, web hosting companies are in the business of making money! If they offer 1 Gb of bandwidth, they have to pay for that bandwidth somehow. Now, if a lot of people bought into their unlimited bandwidth account and pay no monthly fee. Who do you think is going to pay for the used bandwidth? The people who signs up after you, most likely!

So, you would have to be very careful when considering lifetime hosted service. The company could essentially close their doors and run with the money! And left you short of the hundred something dollars that you paid to get this service. So, buyers beware!

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