How To Get Affordable Web Hosting
Brian Armstrong Getting started with your own website isn’t a step to be taken lightly. But it isn’t so important a decision that you can’t take it back or switch to a new company at any point in time. There are a few things about any web hosting company that you can use to compare one against another.
Most hosting companies offer most space than you could probably ever use unless you’re hosting some serious video content. Several web hosting companies now offer “unlimited” space. Obviously trying to test the upper limits of this supposed “unlimited” disk space would require some serious uploading and bandwidth. Not enough disk space will most likely be the least of your worries, even if you are hosting extensive video content.
Bandwidth is another component of web hosting that will only be a problem if you get a huge influx of traffic all at once. You’ll probably run out of server processes before you run out of bandwidth. For instance, if one of your “diggs” goes to the front page of digg.com, there is definitely a likelihood that your $10 per month or less web host won’t have the server processes allocated to handle that much traffic which means your site may crash. Don’t fret because this is a great problem to have.
One of the things I look for with an affordable web hosting company is how their technical support is and where their technical support is located. I prefer a company whose employees speak the same language as I do without accents I have difficulty understanding. Technical competency is important as well, but with the relative simplicity of web servers and these accounts today, this isn’t a very big deal either.
Most web hosting companies now have a control panel of some sort. This is the place you’ll login to in order to manage your account. This will include your email addresses, software installations, ftp or file management, etc. There’s a product called cPanel that is usually what gets installed in most web hosts.
Most web hosting companies include a free domain name. If you’re hosting several different projects, make sure you register your primary domain as the one that you want to be your login. You can also transfer a domain that you already own. I usually recommend getting a free domain with the process instead of just using an existing domain, but that’s up to you.
Affordable web hosting companies should offer through the cpanel several software options for installing software on the websites you plan on hosting. For instance, some of these software options include a blog, content management system, ecommerce shopping cart, web-based email access, forum or bulletin board system, and a few other options for what type of website you’d like to have. Keep in mind that you aren’t limited with what you can install. For instance, your website may have not only a blog, but also the ability of that blog to redirect visitors to the main online store (ecommerce). You could also implement or integrate a forum into the same websites.
Don’t think too much about web hosting. It is important, but the more you spend time analyzing the many facets of web hosting, the further away you’ll get from your project. Plan on spending about $5 to $10 per month and making sure you have all of your minimum requirements met along with a free domain. Read reviews as well, but be aware that the author may be basing his claim solely on which web hosting company is paying him the most money for promotion. Good luck with your search.
In addition to writing articles similar to this one, I also promote affordable web hosting and bluehost coupon. I have started podcasting again. You can find me by searching for Brian Armstrong in iTunes.
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