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Webmasters need a web hosting
company to host your website. It is a very important decision
to small business and home business. To select a web hosting company,
price is not the only factor to consider. In fact, price is not
the most important factor. I recommend you considering the following
factors together with price:
- Technical Support: Can the company offer you 24*7 technical
support?
- Bandwidth: Is the bandwidth provided can handle high traffic
volume?
- Feature rich: Does the company offer sufficient functions
for your e-business? e.g. full cgi-bin, SSL security technology,
mailing list, email accounts, autoresponders, own IP address,
web-based control panel, etc.
- Enough storage space: Usually, 30-40M space is enough except
that your site is a portal contains many interactive features
and content
- Multiple T3 connection: T3 is the standard. Any web hosting
company does not use T3/OCR-3 can be ignored. Multiple T3 connection
ensure reliability. Also, you need to check the server uptime
guarantee.
Web Hosting Companies Recommendation
Host
Rocket
It is a reputable web hosting company. She offers free dns and domain
name services. In addition to web site hosting, we provide cgi,
real audio, java, and email services. Starting from around $9. You
can have unlimited web-based email, site search engines, etc. I
heard that her service and reliability is first class. So Recommended!
iPowerWeb
Another very good web hosting companies. Fast, reliable, ecommerce
enabled. The price can be as low as around $7.95. Highly Recommended!!
Powerweb
Another good company with free setup fee. Also, it offers many useful
features like mailing list, shopping cart, web-based control panel,
etc. Their servers' response time is good. Why not try it?
SparkLIST
This company is different from the above web hosting company. SparkLIST
is dedicated to email list hosting. SparkLIST can host, manage,
moderate, and promote your email newsletter, Ezine or Announcement
Lists in a professional manner. The best I heard!
In case you really do not have budget, you can consider some free
web hosting companies though I don't recommend. This is because
they will add some pop-up banners in your site, poor server response
time, inadequate technical support, less space and features, etc.
If your site is always down, the cost saved cannot cover the loss
in business opportunity and sales you made. Some of these better
free web hosting companies include xoom,
bizland, and
hypermart.
Other Useful Sites
DON'T believe my recommendation or want to know more, you can go
to HostIndex,
a large directory dedicated to web hosting.
Low
Cost Domains is a low cost, yet reputable domain registrar.
TV Domain Registration is a new and popular top level domain
names. Recently, there are still many good .tv domain names. Get
them before they are bought!
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