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Cheap
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What
should I consider when choosing a cheap hosting account?
There
are four basic items you should think about when selecting
the right web hosting account:
1.
How large will your web site be? Estimate the number of
pages your web site will have and their content. How many
images, music files, video files or other content do you
plan to add? The more pages and files, the more disk space
you will require.
2. How busy will your web site be? Estimate the number of
customers who will visit your site on a busy day. The more
people on your web site, the more data transfer you will
require.
3. How many email accounts will you need? You will probably
want a separate email for each employee and a few addresses
for things like sales@my-business.com or info@my-business.com.
4. How important will your web site be to your business?
Is it so critical that without a web site your business
will fold, or is it more of a competitive advantage that
increases your visibility in the market? The more people
who use the site and the more it affects their decisions
and actions, the more important a web site is to your business.
What
is web hosting?
Web Hosting
means that you found a home for your Web site on our Web servers,
which are stored in a secure, climate controlled environment
and are connected to the Internet via high speed data lines.
What
is FTP?
FTP is
File Transfer Protocol, an internet protocol used to transfer
materials over the Internet. It is very fast, very efficient,
and very reliable
What
about Email Autoresponders?
Email autoresponders
are very useful in Internet commerce. Essential, an autoresponder
is a robot which resides on your site, and does one thing
- when it receives an email - from anywhere - with its name
on it - it sends its text back to the source of that email.
Uses for these little robots are limited only by your imagination.
Can
I keep my domain name when I change a web host?
Yes. We
recommend that you register your domain name with a separate
registrar before getting a hosting plan. Then, when you need
to move to another web host, you just need to point your domain's
name servers to this new host. If you registered your domain
name with a host and you now want to move, you should find
your registration records or contact this host and ask them
how to control your domain name. If you have a problem, you
can usually see the name of the registrar by performing a
"Whois" query on your domain name and contact them.
What
about Space?
Cheap Web
hosting service usually assign you a certain amount of space
on their computer. 5 MB is plenty of space for the Web pages
and graphics for most business Web sites. I once jammed nearly
800 files and graphics into 5 MB. But ask if mail, log files,
and system programs are counted in the 5 MB; these can sometimes
take up considerable space. Cheap Web hosts which include
mail and log files in the count commonly offer 15 MB minimum.
What
is uptime?
Uptime
is the percentage of time that a web site is working. For
example, if some cheap web host has an uptime average of 99.86%,
this means that your site will be down for a total about 1
hour each month. Some hosts also offer "uptime guarantees"
but this is not as valuable as it might appear.
Can
I reduce the amount of data transfer my site needs?
Usually
yes. Try to optimize all the graphics on your site. Many GIFs
don't look noticeably worse with fewer colors. Don't duplicate
graphics files, let the browser cache them. Try to clean up
your HTML by using relative paths, short filenames, less extras,
and reducing the number of spaces and new lines. If your site
is mainly text-based, ask your host about using HTTP compression
module like mod_gzip.
Can
I host my site made with Front Page on a Linux server? Don't
I need Windows web hosting?
Yes you
can! FrontPage extensions are available for all plans. You
do not require Windows-based web hosting to use Front Page.
Web
Hosting providers and Cheap Prices
WIZ WEB HOST - $6.99
/ month
Blue
Host - $6.95
/ month
Lunar
Pages - $7.95
/ month
IPowerweb
- $7.95 /
month
Globat
- $4.95 /
month
Start
Logic - $7.95
/ month
MidPhase
- $7.95 /
month
Host
Excellence - $2.95
/ month
Host
Gator - $6.95
/ month
Easy
CGI - $7.96
/ month
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