How to Buy Great Hosting

By Alexei Kouleshov

If you are planning to run an online business, you need to have hosting that will not let you down. In order to buy a hosting package, you need to consider certain some important aspects.

Those aspects are:

• Bandwidth

• Web Space

• Uptime

• Support

• Hosting platform

• Number of website that can be hosted

• Cost

Bandwidth is the amount of traffic your web hosting is allowed to transfer. If someone is downloading or uploading 20MB file from your website that's 20MB of your bandwidth gone. Every time someone will be viewing your website and images, the size of those files loaded will be subtracted from your bandwidth limit. It is important to have a large amount of bandwidth with your web hosting as they normally would suspend your account once your bandwidth is exceeded.

Web space is the amount of space you get on your web hosting to store the files. You don't really need too much of it, unless you are planning to store something big.

Uptime is the statistical percentage of your web hosting server being up. Its best if the number is as close to 100% as possible.

Support is one of the most important aspects of your hosting. Last thing you would want is for your website to stop working and you have no one to contact. I find it critical to have a company with constant support (24/7).

When picking hosting, make sure you pick the right platform for your website. There are generally two types of platforms, Windows based hosting and Linux based hosting. Each one of them is designed to support applications for either of the platforms, so make sure what you are running is going to work with the hosting you are after.

If you are running a number of websites that are pretty similar in their structure, it might be logical to get a hosting with multiple domains. This basically means that you are allowed to host as many websites on one hosting as you wish. The default allows you to host only one.

Finally, the cost of the hosting should be reasonable. I still meet people who are paying hundreds of dollars for their hosting, which has been setup 10 years ago. You should be paying $10-$15 for your hosting per month, considering that it has everything mentioned above.

My personal experience showed me not to rely on small hosting companies, but deal with the big ones instead, as they provide better support. This is crucial for me as I run hundreds of websites at the same time and cannot afford for them to be down.

The hosting that I would recommend to you is Hostgator. It is a large company that provides a wide range of plans. I personally prefer their Baby Croc plan which gives you unlimited bandwidth, unlimited web space, unlimited number of domains, great support, cPanel platform and its all for $9.95 per month or $7.95 per month if you pay for one year. I have been using their services for over 3 years and they have been great.

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