How to choose Your Web Host

When starting your own Internet Home Based Business, the most crucial point to decide on, is who is going to host your website, this decision is even more important than deciding on your name for your home based business.

So before deciding on a web host for your internet home based business, keep in mind the following as these features can make running your home based business a little easier,


Reliability
Pricing
Speed
Disk Space / bandwidth
Support / Security

Reliability
Make sure you go with a reliable host with world-class data centres and 24/7 maintenance and protection. Once again research is the key word, time spent on good research will save you hours of heartache later on.You can research various web hosts on forums and user reviews to find out more about their track record. You can lose valuable clients if your internet home based business site is down 20% of the time.

Pricing
You need to compare pricing before you finally decide on a web hosting service for your internet home based business. Some may provide you better services but at low pricing. It's not always true that the best hosting services are always the most expensive. Do your research and then decide, some hosts try to entice you with rock bottom prices but then restrict you to a single domain name or very low bandwidth. Many free hosts are unreliable and go out of business. Great hosting plans can be found for less than $10 a month, so you don't necessarily have to sacrifice quality to get a good price.

Speed
Keep in mind the 10 second rule, if your internet home based business site is taking ages to load, you will already have lost some of that all important 10 seconds. So If your website does not give visitors an understanding of what it is about within 10 seconds, they will leave. Just think If your website is taking seven seconds to load itself, you are probably losing the majority of your visitors.

Disk space and bandwidth
In the beginning it will be hard to decide on how much bandwidth you would require for your internet home based business site, so compare the various bandwidth sizes against what you are paying for. When we talk about disk space, it's actually the amount of storage assigned to you by the web hosting provider. The bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to access and leave your website. In case your website has a lot of graphics then you would require higher storage area and greater bandwidth. If you start of with a low bandwidth initially, is it possible to upgrade? Web hosts can suspend your account or charge you overage fees if you go over your allotted amount.

Support, Security
Security and backups are two very important aspects that you need to consider. You should always choose a web hosting service with reliable telephone support. Some also offer 24/7 support through local or toll-free numbers. In case you are running an ecommerce home based business website then security is one aspect that you just cannot discard.

Finally.
Did you know that some web hosting companies offer you a chance to act as a reseller, so if you are happy with their service, you can promote their services and in that way your hosting fees will be paid for by itself. One such company is Host4Profit, where you get paid $10.00 for each person that you refer.

Regards

Alan

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