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The webhosting market is flooded with tens of thousands of differentwebhosts all offering lots of choices, so how do you decide?The truth is 80% is these hosts all offer great hosting and to avoid the20% that dont you just need to follow the following 5 steps. 1. Type of hosting platform The first step when choosing a webhost is to decide on the type ofhosting platform, usually a choice between Unix/Linux and Windows. Your choice is largely determined by your website and the technologiesused to create it, generally a website created with Microsoft technologies willrun on Windows servers while most other sites using open source will run onUnix/Linux based systems, the standard is generally Linux, and due to the factthat you will not be charged licensing fees by Microsoft this is also thecheaper option. 2. Hosting Features Once you've chosen your type of hosting platform the next step isdetermining the hosting features you will require, for example bloggingsoftware requires the use of databases, and any sort of dynamic content willrequire PHP, you need to look at the make up of your website to decide on yourfeatures. Common hosting features are. Disk Space Data Transfer AllowanceBandwidthBackups Uptime Money Back Guarantee Domains Allowed Databases (Number & type) CGI, PHP, Perl, Python, SSI Number of Email accounts 3. Connection SpeedThe next vital requirementis a good connection, i.e. sufficient bandwidth, this affects the downloadspeed of your website, a good way to check this is to see how fast their siteloads in your browser, especially at peak times such as when people are justgetting home from work. A good host will have connection redundancy i.e. morethan one connection, you can ask about this when you speak to their customersupport. 4. Cost Choosing a webhost based on price alone is not a good idea, rememberthat the cost of your webhosting is more than just the monthly fee, think aboutthe total cost of ownership this includes lost sales due to downtime & slowspeeds, downtime rebates, extra bandwidth charges, setup costs, extra featurecosts, and your monthly fee. 5. Good Customer SupportIn order to have goodcustomer support a webhost will have to be well established and be running awell organised webhosting business. It is preferable for the support staff tobe based at the server farm and essential that they are well trained in servermanagement it is a good idea to telephone the customer support line of anypotential webhost to get a feel for their level of knowledge, you can also askthem about their company infrastructure. 6. Uptime If a webhosting providerhas a published uptime of 99% it may sound pretty good, until you realise thatover the course of one month equals 7.2hrs or 3.6 days per year thats 3days14 ½ hours that you are not making money. It is therefore imperative that youchoose a webhosting company, which has a 99.99% uptime guarantee.
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