How to choose a Home Based Business Web Host

Now days trying to identify a home based business web host can be a very daunting task especially when there are so many available nowadays and all of them promise one thing or another. Iit is crucial that before you jump in, you do your own homework or research for selecting the most appropriate web hosting company for your internet home based business website.

Most web hosts provide various services in addition to their basic ones, if you are running an e-commerce website, then of course you need high end security and tools like a shoping cart and a way of accepting credit card payments, through which you can manage your web content efficiently. If you are loading and storing large files like photos and videos then data transfer and disk storage will be more important to you.

There are so many different terminology that just trying to understand what they mean can be another daunting task, below I have written a few of the more common terms and what they mean.


Auto responder: An email address that is set up to automatically reply to the sender with a previously prepared response.

Bandwidth (Data Transfer): The amount of data that you are allowed to transfer (usually monthly). Data = images, text, audio files, video files and everything else that a server transfers to a user's web browser. Web sites that get a lot of visitors (and page views) need larger amounts of data transfer (or bandwidth).

CGI: Common Gateway Interface. A program that translates data from a web server and then displays that data on a web page or in an email. CGI scripting can add numerous interactive elements to a Web site.

Control Panel: An online interface often used to facilitate Web site management and editing. Control panels often allow hosting customers to perform basic functions (make changes, check data, etc.) without contacting customer service.

Disk Space (Storage Space): The storage capacity for images, HTML files, audio files, video files, graphics, etc. A Web site planning to have a large amount of pages and/or planning to use a lot of images (or other large files) will need a greater amount of disk space.

Email Forwarding: When email sent to different email addresses is automatically sent (forwarded) to another specified email address. For example, you could have multiple email addresses (i.e. info@domain.com, support@domain.com, webmaster@domain.com) that would all be forwarded to one address (i.e. whatever@domain.com) for easy checking and responding.


FrontPage Extensions: A set of programs and scripts that allow specific features of a Web site created with FrontPage to perform correctly.

IP Address: Internet Protocol Address. A unique number identifying all devices connected to the Internet


MySQL: A popular open-source relational database. UNIX hosting plans often include MySQL databases.


Perl: A programming language that facilitates data management and processing.

PHP: A scripting language. PHP commands are embedded within the HTML of a Web page and is useful in the arena of dynamically generated pages. PHP scripting can add numerous interactive elements to a Web site.

POP3 Email Account: POP3 email allows all emails addressed to your domain to go to one place. If a host allows multiple POP3 email boxes, you can have multiple (separate) email addresses.

Setup Fee: Initial fee charged by a host to create your hosting account.

Storage Space (Disk Space): The storage capacity for images, HTML files, audio files, video files, graphics, etc. A Web site planning to have a large amount of pages and/or planning to use a lot of images (or other large files) will need a greater amount of storage space.

Subdomain: A subdomain is a division of a Web site, a section set apart with a different sub-domain name. For example, subdomains of Web site "domain.com" could be "support.domain.com," "clients.domain.com," etc.


Web Statistics: Reports on visitors to your Web site. Statistics range from basic (how many visitors), to advanced (referring URL, search phrase, etc.).

Finally,
Some web host offer the facility of having a reseller account where you can get paid a commission by refering people to the web host, normally you can expect a commission of $10.00 a month.

Regards

Alan

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