After the creation and design of web site is over, the user needs to move to host his/her domain or website on the World Wide Web. This important action is taken by the user to decide the best web-hosting package. Here are some of the significant guidelines that can help a user to make the right decision. Following are some of the vital factors that should be concerned by a user while making the selection of the web hosting company.
1. Server’s reliability and its uptime:
It is necessary for a user to choose reliable server as well as the server that will provide maximum uptime. The percentage of the uptime should be of 99.5% as less then this will not be acceptable. The reliability of a server can be proved by the availability of one’s website on the net. If any visitor endeavor to access one’s web site but if he was not able to do that due to down server it can irritate him and can lead him run away. The important feature of one’s website is that it guarantees for 99.8% uptime.
2. Bandwidth:
The next feature is the bandwidth or traffic transfer. Traffic transfer or bandwidth refers to the capacity of the web host to lodge instantaneous access to one’s website. Generally this is calculated by the amount of bytes transferred by one’s site when web surfers access his/her site on the web. All the web-hosting providers used to charge for this service. There is no concept of �limitless bandwidth’. It will be good for a user to confirm all the details earlier such as the charges for the data transfer. If a website is simple, then the bandwidth it requires is about 50 GB to 100GB.
3. Storage or Disk space:
The feature of storage and disk space is also as important as the above-discussed features. For disk space one should look out for a minimum 200 MB. In the market there are number of web hosts offering larger disk / storage spaces, which will be sufficient for a simple web site. If any site is totally a professional site then also it does not require more than 5000 MB. It will be ok for a user to go for 200�1000 MB as disk/storage space.
4. Technical support:
When a user is going to select a web hosting service, he/she should definitely look out for the past of that web host and check out their approach as well as the time taken by it to sort out the different problems that can emerge with the server and sites. All web hosting firms assures the people to provide 24/7 service period but one should confirm this statement before going for any of the company as only some of the companies are able to meet their words. It is necessary for a user to have a high-quality service support so as to have an interrupted access to his/her site. One should be aware of free services and false declaration in this turf as any of the wrong decision can spoil his/her business.
5. Add-ons capacity:
Generally a user desires to have his/her maximum control on his/her website such as he/she wants to add, update, and delete things in his/her website by him/her self. The most common of these things would be managing his/her email, passwords and creating different accounts. In the control panel of the host there are highly developed features that allows a user to add or delete extra items on his/her website directly. User wants to have maximum amount of liberty from his/her host.
If a user is planning to move his/her business complete with financial transactions, order forms, then he/she will require an additional service such as secure server for credit card encrypting.
Some other important features are email auto-responders, mail forward, re-routing, and multiple accesses that are also helpful for a user to move forward with success.
