Web Hosting Reviews

Discover needs before you buy

It is most important for the judge to our needs before going to the shop. What we need and where to look for hosting services give us a basic idea of how much we are willing to pay. This is a basic step to always keep in mind before you jump online and hunt for "best deal". There are many sites that seek to accommodate bargain hunters. So know the difference that the first and buy.

The space and transfer are two core / main attributes of Web hosting. Simply we must keep in mind that the size we expect our site and how many people will travel on a monthly period. But if we are completely new to hosting, we may not be able to accurately estimate our needs too. So before shopping, we might consider what is uploaded to our site or type of site we want. Knowing the size of the file that we plan to move will give us a basic idea of how much space we need and this will depend on the nature of the site. For example, a small "hobby" sites do not consume much space, that is to say not even 10 or 20 MB, but the online stores, multimedia files and sites hosting downloads need more space.
"Transfer" or "circulation" or sometimes "Bandwidth" is general and some equivalent terms giving no information about the viewers coming to our site in general a month. Some hosts have meters nowadays every day, but most prefer monthly period. To estimate this transfer, it is a very simple method, taking the total file size in kilobytes or megabytes and multiply by the number of visitors we expect. Several times, our assumption is not very precise. The overestimation But the traffic is always better than to underestimate, as we need space to grow with our hosting plan.

If we have totally no idea what should be the size of our site and how many people will travel? Don t panic and start with small ones. Although our dream of having control over the Web is high, we should start quietly and the popularity and traffic will be

Determination of required

Though space and transfer is at the heart of attributes but assessment features we need is also important in the web hosting and vary according to our knowledge on the web and websites in general. No complex features are needed for those who wish to publish in time. Choosing the host with a way to upgrade and go with a small map to help us improve our idea of monthly traffic easily. Perhaps the hope that webmasters increase their traffic, and a host with a variety of increasingly important plans is best placed to manage this growth. Static web pages with content and they intend to update personally. Www is composed of "HTML" pages, which work on any browser on any computer, be it a "PC", "Mac", or managed by another system of operation is a basic level. Beginner to there insurance that HTML pages they create on a PC can be read by people browsing the Web using a Mac. HTML. Databases and active scripting required by the sites must be coded using the language of our future hosting company servers. There are many options beyond the scope of this article go to them, but just be aware of the nature of active scripting we plan to use and ensure that our host supports. Substitutes are PHP, ASP.net and Cold Fusion while some of the options vary depending on the type of server used by our guests usually Linux or Windows only.

An additional functionality to improve the sites are mailing lists, forum software, and
We must pay attention to a host of features if our site goes beyond e-commerce software Basic. These are common features that are supported by most hosts. If we consider the establishment of an online store, he / she can know what kind of basket, if any, offer home and at the same time, he / she needs to learn the use. For ecommerce sites Advanced statistics packages like Urchin are also valuable. Trace on the type of features we plan to organize our site and make sure that our choice is at our disposal.

Supporting see

The latter is, but not the least element and important. This acts as a dividing line between the quality hosting and less reputable options. One of the main reasons for cutting rates is hosting support as poor to support our site is rarely a month and so always check the option to support our future site host. Ideally, these days, they provide two options -

[A] They have phone hours, we can call and speak directly to the.

[b] Another "direct contact" is popular these days is "chat". This still allows direct contact with a live person, only through a chat window on your computer at home.

The combination is a sign that the host has invested some money in support.

Although the minimum in the support options they provide a help desk or support ticket system which allows customers to send information / complaints about their question and this question and all responses to it This followed a central location, so that the history of our support is always available.
Beware that the host offers an untracked "email" support or not. Having all 3, phone, chat and support, is substantially a good sign because it shows that a host is paying attention to customers. You can always "test" these systems before you register by phone or chatting, but it is always advisable to keep the conversation short as for a support staff is not directly in response to Question sale. However there are cases where short essay has delayed the technician from handling a request from an existing customer.