Choosing Website Host

There are thousands of web hosting services it really can be a confusing, time-consuming, difficult and sometimes very crucial task. When choosing Website host price is not the most important thing to consider. Most of them will be within a dollar or two of each other anyways.

Choosing support, customer service and permanency over price when carefully researched is the best way to go. Especially if you are trading or selling online. You can loose a substantial amount of money when your site is down and most importantly you can loose good paying customer if they are not able to log on to your site as they wish.

If you are new to the internet world then it is even more crucial that you research a bit more extensive before using any hosting company. Another piece of advice for new comers will be to separate your hosting from your domain name registration companies. You do not want to be locked up in a box in case of trouble.

Apart from support, customer service and permanency some other aspects to consider before price are:

- Data transfer and storage resources. You need one that has a simple to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

- Reliability, you do not want a hosting company that goes down more than it is up. You could be loosing a significant amount of money when the hosting is down.

- Hours of operation with 24/7 email and instant message support is a must have for those that are new to this even the advanced users can sometime get stock. Directions are better typed than talked.

- It is important to be able to create personalized email accounts for all your domain names, supporting mail forwarding addresses, auto responder and to be able to retrieve your email with you phone or other devices.

- Disk space comes handy if you plan on creating multiply website or just one website with hundreds or thousands of content pages, with banners and pictures then you will hosting with unlimited disk space.

- Compatibility is not a huge issue but it is still there just incase you want to switch applications.

There are also options of using nonprofit web hosting organization. Before using any of the nonprofit make sure you researched their commitment to helping you build your own organization. Find out how much service and support they offer and for how long.

Some of the drawbacks of using a nonprofit free hosting services are disk space where you are limited to a very small amount of disk space, data transfer is very much restricted, find out how much that will affect your business. Other drawbacks include banner and pop up advertising which is how they recoup their expenses you will have no control over that. Lack of personal support as would be expected is another area to think about if you would require any kind of help.

Before using any hosting service doing your home work could save you some headache in the future. Start from what is most important to least important thing to you and you will be ok.

Fortune Ezeoha worked for multimillion dollars company for years until he decided it is time to fight poverty in his community. He has been teaching and coaching serious and independent minded people since 2003. He is pleased to offer you his free ebook "Internet Marketing Manual” to help you get started making money online.