There are more choices of services that are offered by web hosting companies
than there are types of burgers out there. Depending on what your business
needs, take into consideration the following:
Website complexity - Discuss this with your software developer. You may also
want to delegate the task of graphics design to an artist. Furthermore, you may
have a separate database administrator as well. Discuss together the
technical issues involved as a team to come up with a design that both looks
good and is functional. In this way, you will understand the technical
requirements to best guide you in your choice of a web hosting company.
If external adds cluttering in your web page doesn't bother you, then there
are free web hosting services for this kinds of setup. For best effect,
choose the one whose external ads are closely related to the content of your
website. In this way, the unexpected banners may look like as if part of your
webpage's content. This can surprisingly improve your website's hit counts.
There are compromises with free web hosting services though. It is slower
than the paid ones. There is also lesser storage space. Nevertheless, some
free web hosting services can also have some surprising goodies like a free
email account and others.
If you want more control, then you have to go for the paid web hosting
services. You can increase your storage space allocation as well as your
bandwidth based on how much you pay. You can avail other useful services like
many email accounts.
There is a variety of operating system platforms in businesses today. Your
company may prefer an Apple, Windows, or a Linux. Make sure that your web
hosting provider has the type of platform that you need.
Web hosting is basically about two basic elements: storage space and speed
bandwidth. You simply cannot get the best of these features without paying for
it. But don't pay much on features that you do not use. Find the right balance
and get the offering that closely match your requirements.
