by blog: Cheap linux web hosting from: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:38:42 +0100
If you open up Google and do a search on the `cheap linux web hosting`, more than many million web pages appear as a result. With that much competition, is it rather easy to get lost while searching for a cheap linux web hosting provider and estimating which are the most meaningful elements to regard. The most meaningful elements are: 1. The cheap linux web hosting company must have a control over their servers. Most of the cheap linux web hosting industry is based on reselling server space to someone else. If the provider you get don`t own the space, it could happen that when you need to go to a different provider for any reason, you depend on their will to help you. This really happened to me some years ago when the cheap linux web hosting provider with which I was cooperating was very profitable, but was sold and after that, when I desired to move a customer to another cheap linux web hosting, the company don`t even replied my emails. It is very complicated to move a large site without having root access, but I had to do it. Although I lost several days and it was very sorrowful, the migration even wasn`t perfect. At the moment I have a VPS (and root access to it) and my life is good. If you are actually on a budget and can`t afford a VPS, go for a shared cheap linux web hosting as HostGator, which is a reputable provider. 2. Don`t let your cheap linux web hosting company own your domain. Your domain is your brand on the Internet network. In addition, when you acquire links to your site you have traffic from them to your domain, not to your cheap linux web hosting. If you lose your domain, all the traffic that you have from those hard earned links are lost in an instant. If the cheap linux web hosting company gives you a domain name for free, make sure that the email of the administrative contact is an email that you control and you have a control panel where you can see the ownership of your domain. 3. Avoid Free cheap linux web hosting Of Any Kind. Free cheap linux web hosting is nice for your resume or to tell the history of your dog, but when you are starting a business, even a little one, it is very important to have your own domain because if your page is hosted at someone`s else domain, when you acquire links to your page, you become dependant on your cheap linux web hosting company because if later you choose to have your own domain, all the links you got will still be pointing to the cheap linux web hosting company which will gain all the traffic that should have been yours. 4. Seek a cheap linux web hosting With Good Support. It takes many YEARS to fully comprehend all the issues of the cheap linux web hosting platforms. Even many Internet business professionals with 10 years in business don`t fully comprehend all the options they have in their control panel. So, if you are a newbie, you could be in big trouble almost all the time if your cheap linux web hosting doesn`t give you manuals, advice or help you to complete technical tasks. Remember that you acquired a cheap linux web hosting to make money, not to lose your time with technical things.
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