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Things You Need To Consider While Selecting A Web Hosting Service

Due to the enormous demand for web hosting, numerous companies have come into this business offering a variety of service at varying prices, so it should not be difficult to find the perfect package to fit your needs. For the newbie to the internet, the variety of choices makes it confusing. Questions like the features you need, which web hosting company you should select. Following are the key pointers which would help you make an informed decision in selecting your web hosting requirements.

STORAGE: Storage is used in terms of web hosting space to accommodate the files /data that you are going to store on the server. Storage would depend on the type of your website. For example a personal website would not require a lot of server space. However if your site is related to a business or eCommerce website or even a gallery, that would grow with time, then make sure that you go for a package that has enough storage space.

BANDWIDTH: This is used for data flowing thru and fro your server. If you site is designed with heavy graphics and has a number of visitors to the site you would need a package that provides ample bandwidth. Make sure that you are aware of the cost implications once you exceed your packaged bandwidth quota..

SUPPORT: Every service need a good after sales support. You must go in for a hosting company that offers 24/7 technical support especially so if you and the server company is in different time zones.

SERVER PARAMETERS: A web hosting service should at least have a server uptime of 97% and above, which means that web host's server is up and running at least 97% of the time. Other important server points would be - how many servers does you hosting company actually have and what are the types of sites hosted one your particular server. There are some sites that regularly creates problems on the server due to bad programming practices

WEBSTATS: Your hosting provider should offer you access to the web server logs. These are the kind of files that store information about the type of traffic is generated, how many visitors, from where etc. Along with this they should provide you with a interface which decodes these server logs and present this information in a easily readable manner.

SCRIPTS/LANGUAGES/DATABASES: What does you’re hosting company support. : PHP, ASP, JAVA, MySQL, SQL SERVER? You will have to select a hosting provider depending on which programming language your site is going to be developed in. Also bear in mind the need for a database. If you need to store information then you would require the same. If you are opting for PHP, then MySQL is the database to be used and for ASP its going to me SQL Server / MS Access

UPGRADING: After initial consideration of your server specs and depending on the growth of your website, you may require more resources to keep up with your websites demands. You need to have ahost that provides such an option. Also care should be taken that any upgrades should happen seamlessly and with minimal interruption to the running of the website?

E-MAILS: POP3 & SMTP are the requirements. Also depending on the number of email ids required you must make sure that your hosting provider offers the same. However most of the providers offer more that what is really required, so this parameter should not be a problem.