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Tips For Selecting A Web Hosting Company In the world today, there are tens of thousands of web hosting companies all desperate for business. There are also hundreds of thousands of different types of hosting packages for you to choose from. As a result, selecting the right web host and hosting package for your website can be a challenging task. Fortunately, this article contains some information that will hopefully make the task easier. Disk Space HTML files and scripts typically take up very little space, however, if you want to host videos, music and image files on your website, you are going to need a hosting plan that comes with a lot of disk space. Fortunately, most web hosting companies will allow you to increase your disk space allocation as your website grows, so you will not have to pay for a large amount of disk space when your website is in its infancy. Bandwidth If you are hosting videos on your website, it would probably be best to select a hosting plan that has an unlimited monthly bandwidth allowance. Unfortunately, these types of hosting plans can be very expensive, so you may want to investigate to possibility of hosting your website's videos with a separate free specialist video host such as YouTube. Linux or Windows Windows web servers are always more expensive than Linux (apache) servers. However, if your website requires ODBC, Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL databases, and ASP.NET, you will have no choice but to use a Windows server. Customer Support Make sure that any web host that you choose provides 24/7 online technical and billing support. You may also want to check that the web hosting company can communicate with you effectively in your native language.

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Page 1: Tips For Selecting A Web Hosting Company

Tips For Selecting A Web Hosting Company In the world today, there are tens of thousands of web hosting companies all desperate for business.There are also hundreds of thousands of different types of hosting packages for you to choose from.As a result, selecting the right web host and hosting package for your website can be a challengingtask. Fortunately, this article contains some information that will hopefully make the task easier. Disk Space HTML files and scripts typically take up very little space, however, if you want to host videos, musicand image files on your website, you are going to need a hosting plan that comes with a lot of diskspace. Fortunately, most web hosting companies will allow you to increase your disk space allocationas your website grows, so you will not have to pay for a large amount of disk space when yourwebsite is in its infancy. Bandwidth If you are hosting videos on your website, it would probably be best to select a hosting plan that hasan unlimited monthly bandwidth allowance. Unfortunately, these types of hosting plans can be veryexpensive, so you may want to investigate to possibility of hosting your website's videos with aseparate free specialist video host such as YouTube. Linux or Windows Windows web servers are always more expensive than Linux (apache) servers. However, if yourwebsite requires ODBC, Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL databases, and ASP.NET, you will haveno choice but to use a Windows server. Customer Support Make sure that any web host that you choose provides 24/7 online technical and billing support. Youmay also want to check that the web hosting company can communicate with you effectively in yournative language.

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Guarantees and Free Trials Seek out web hosts that offer free trials and money-back guarantees. By taking advantage of a freetrial, you can find out first hand whether a web host is suitable for your website before you part withany of your hard-earned cash.  When you decide to buy a hosting plan from company, knowing thatyou can request a full refund at anytime if you are not happy with the service you are receiving canstop you from worrying about your purchase. Security Find out where the web hosting company's data centers are located and ask whether the centers aremonitored round-the-clock by trained security guards. If you plan on storing confidently files on yourweb host's servers, it is imperative that you make sure that the hosting company is taking theirsecurity seriously. Reliability You should always check out a web hosting company's uptime rate and see what sorts of "uptimeguarantees" they are offering before you sign up for a hosting plan. Keep in mind, though, that while98% uptime my sound good, it equates to almost 15 hours of downtime each month. Using the information presented to you in this article, in addition to other free web hosting adviceresources available on the World Wide Web, you should have no problem finding a web host and webhosting package that will serve you and your website well. Good luck! For the best Web Hosting click here