How to Choose the Right Web Host Profitably!
By Oseremen E.
Aigbokhae
Choosing the right web host company for your internet business will place you
in a vantage position to make more money online than you may ever imagine.
Therefore, this article has been specifically written to address the many issues
of web site hosting. Hosting your web site is so important that knowing 'what
services to expect' from your hosting company should not be downplayed.
Otherwise, you will end up having sleepless nights ruminating over why you are
not making enough sales to cater for your ever-increasing overheads and
ultimately making tidy profits.
As you may be aware, a web host is a
company that provides the services of hosting your web server on the internet
for the world to see, view, analyze, visit, patronize, etc as to what your web
site offers in the form of products and services. The inability of surfers,
spiders and web crawlers to access your web site's information will mean no
sufficient visitors that will convert to leads, sales and then customers. What
you are then left with is a "Glorified Web Site" that cannot pay back its
investment.
Like the foundation of a house, web host is the foundation of
your business. If your web host is down, you are down too. Your business needs
99.9% uptime and 0% downtime to remain in business and be profitable. So, take a
checklist of the following to know if you are on track.
1. Plan your web
site and your requirements.
2. Check your prospective web host to know if
they will be able to meet your requirements.
3. Check to see if you will
be able to upgrade from one Price Plan to another as your business
grows.
4. Check if there is "bundle pricing" and discount if you do
one-stop shopping from your host.
5. Check if their services are fully
data based driven with an easy to use Content Manager. This includes a lot of
features like Web Pages availability, Disk Space, Bandwidth and Instant Set Up.
Others include: Domain/FTP features i.e. sub domains, FTP accounts. I will
include here Supported Features: MySQL, CGI, PHP, Perl, Python, SSL, Cron,
Frontpage, Curl, GD, Image Magick, Streaming Video and Music, Free Module
Installation. For E-mail: Pop3 Accounts, Web mail, E-mail alias, Autoresponders,
Mailing List, Catch All, Spam Assassin, Mail Forward, IMAP, SMTP should be
considered. Please don't forget Control Panel Features: Fantastico Hot! Hotlink
Protection, IP Deny Manager, Custom Error Pages, Instant PHP Nuke, Instant
Chatroom, Instant GuestBook, Instant Counter, Instant FormMail, Redirect URL,
Web Based FTP, PW Protected Directories, PHPMyAdmin. See how you can be helped
with Web/FTP Statistics: AWStats with real time updates, Webalizer, Raw Log
Access, Error Log, Analog. And lastly, the E-commerce Features: Shared SSL,
Angora Shopping Cart, Instant osCommerce, Instant Zencart and Cube
Cart.
You may not need all of these, but you need to know how you will be
supported when the need arises. I suggest you check here
www.sitesell.com/eforte.html for a peek of what I am writing about. That way you
won't be taken ABACK!
About the Author
Oseremen E. Aigbokhae freelances. He is an Internet
Marketer,www.sitesell.com/eforte.html,and can be reached at edose123@yahoo.com |
