HERE ARE THE MAJOR FEATURES THAT
YOU WILL GET WITH SOME OF THE Small Business WEB HOSTING
PLANS.
Choosing a budget web hosting company
can be overwhelming. In fact, choosing any web hosting company
can be a challenge due, in large part, to the fact that
there are so many of them. Do a search for "web hosting"
with the quotes around the keywords on Google, and it'll
return over 5 million documents! That doesn't mean there
are 5 million web hosting providers but there very well
could be at least 1 million! That's a lot of web hosts.
How can you choose one that meets your need?
What is Budget web hosting anyway?
Budget web hosting is generally defined
as any hosting service that is below $10 per month. The
budget comes from the low price. Now, most companies in
the budget web hosting category only offer one year plans.
Most budget web hosting companies however, will quote you
the monthly fee you would pay if you divided the annual
fee by 12 months. Keep that in mind when you are comparing
one company with another. The other thing to look out for
is the setup fee. Do they charge you a setup fee to get
started?
Evaluate your general impression
of the company.
The first place to start evaluating
budget web hosting companies is their front page. Does their
website give you a sense that they are professional? Is
it easy to find all of the information you need? Take a
look at their contact information. Do they list a physical
address, an email address and a phone number to contact
them? If they don't provide any contact details, that has
to throw up a red flag. If you run into problems setting
up your website, and you have no proper contact information,
how are you going to get service from that company?
What kind of guarantee do they offer?
Choose a budget web hosting company
that offers a good guarantee. Most budget web hosting companies
don't openly publish their satisfaction guarantees. If you
have to look in their terms and services agreement to find
out where they stand with regard to giving you back your
money if you are not satisfied, you should look elsewhere.
What is the uptime guarantee of the
site in question?
Uptime guarantee refers to the amount
of time the server is live and serving your web pages. An
uptime guarantee of 99% means that the host guarantees that
their servers will be up and operational 99% of the time.
Over the course of one year, 99% uptime would represent
a downtime (the one percent) of around 87 hours in a year
or an average of 7 hours per month. An uptime of 99.9% would
involve only 8 hours of downtime for the entire year.
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