Web Hosting Reviews
December 19th, 2007 by choim
“Out of multiple web hosting companies available, which one should I go with?”
“What features do they provide and what is the right bandwidth and disk storage that I would need? What do some of these features mean and do I need them?”
“Am I going to be okay with a shared hosting plan or should I go ahead with a dedicated hosting plan?”
These are some of the questions I received as people asked me to help them choose the right hosting company.
Choosing a right hosting company is an important part of building your online company. Before building a website, you need to make sure that you have a good hosting plan that supports what you want to do.
With the increase in computer technology, various web hosting companies are offering some amazing deals. You can now get more than 300 GB of storage, and 6000! GB of bandwidth with a shared hosting plan. My guess is that less than 1% of the websites actually need as much storage space and bandwidth as what these hosting companies are providing, but it doesn’t hurt to have these features.
When you are looking for a good web hosting company, look for the below items
- Hosting Features - Make sure they offer the features you need. For example, do they allow you to install certain softwares you need (PHP-nuke, Wordpress, etc)? Fantastico is a great neat program that allows you to install various scripts very easily. A few web hosting company offers Fantastico.
- Bandwidth and Storage - Make sure they give you enough bandwidth and disk storage. This probably is not going to be an issue for many web developers. Unless you expect more than tens of thousands of people visiting the site every single day and your site is loaded heavily with videos and flash, you will be okay with normal hosting plan. I know of a site that attracts more than 30,000 unique visitors a day and the shared hosting plan does more than fine in handling all the traffic.
- Unlimited Domain - Find the web hosting company that allows you to put unlimited domains in ONE hosting plan. This will save you lots of money.
- Domain Registration Fee - Web hosting companies offer different rates for domain registration, ranging anywhere from $6.95/yr to $24.95/yr. If you are going to host multiple domain names, make sure you select a hosting plan with cheap rates for domain renewals.
To help people find the right web hosting company, my friend and I created a website with a free evaluation test that will pre-select the web hosting companies that meet your criteria.
The name of the site is: Top-WebHosting-List.com. Visit the site to find web hosting reviews.