Saturday, November 1, 2008

The 4 Things You Should Expect From Your Web Hosting Package

By Daren Albom

Often time cost will be the first priority in choosing web hosting for most of the people. Although cheap web hosting saves operating cost but unfortunately always those are web hosting which associated with low quality. Poor support and reliability is sometimes a great issue with cheap hosting. Therefore by compromising the cost with quality is always something not worthwhile.

Ideally the web hosting that we are carving for is a hosting with high standards and low price. High standard here means a better uptime, a better customer support, a better reliability and etc. Since we already knew what we are indeed carving for, we should draw a clear line on that and no compromises should happen beyond the line.

Perhaps we should state clearly on the line we have just drawn.

Firstly we should by all mean to eliminate web hosting with bad performance. We want a web hosting with good up time because down time not only hurts your web site functionality but also affect your e mail. You will not be able to access your website as well as your email. There are so many web hosting companies outside that fight to serve you. You should always look for a hosting with better uptime like 99.9% uptime.

Secondly will be the customer support. A 24/7 customer support is a minimum requirement for your web hosting providers as internet is something that is borderless, timeless and dimensionless. Anytime there will be something happening in the internet and you need somebody to attend to your queries anytime anywhere.

Thirdly it is the back up of server. Regular back up is proven to be the best way to prevent any disaster from hard drive failure or any other accidents. A good service provider should always have a redundant server to back up all the data, be it a load sharing or N+1 redundancy. Only with regular back up your website and data are secured with the hosting company. (Of cause you should always do your own back up too)

Fourthly will be the added services. Added services can be free website promoting credits, free web site scripts, free web site transfer, free site builder software and etc. These added values will be helpful to build a decent website with least effort. This can be evaluated from the full hosting features of webhosting. Check what kind of software and program that they have.

At last only the pricing of web hosting should come in. Pricing no doubt is an important factor but without the above mentioned criterion, you should never look at such provider because it will be classified as poor quality hosting. Remember you are building a website which will serve hundred or thousands of visitors. Web hosting as the foundation of the website should be the best quality of all elements in your site.


Daren is a writer and webmaster. His Hostgator web hosting website provides a better insight on the web hosting leader. For a good quality of web hosting, Daren recommends Hostgator web hosting.

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