by blog: Cheap linux web hosting from: Thu, 01 May 2008 09:38:03 +0100
If you open up Google and do a search on the `cheap linux web hosting`, more than many million web pages come up as a result. With that much competition, is it practically easy to get lost while searching for a cheap linux web hosting provider and assessing which are the most significant features to consider. The most significant features are: 1. The cheap linux web hosting provider must have a control over their servers. The principal part of the cheap linux web hosting industry is based on reselling server space to someone else. If the company you have don`t own the space, it could happen that when you want to move to a different company for any reason, you depend on their willingness 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 useful, but was sold and after that, when I desired to move a purchaser to another cheap linux web hosting, the provider don`t even answered my mail. It is very complicated to move a large web-site without having root access, but I had to do it. Although I lost many days and it was very shocking, the migration even wasn`t perfect. Nowadays I have a VPS (and root access to it) and my life is good. If you are certainly on a budget and can`t afford a VPS, go for a shared cheap linux web hosting like HostGator, which is a reputable company. 2. Don`t let your cheap linux web hosting company own your domain. Your domain is your brand on the Internet. Moreover, when you acquire links to your website you force traffic from them to your domain, not to your cheap linux web hosting. If you lose your domain, all the traffic that you get from those hard earned links are lost immediately. If the cheap linux web hosting provider proposes 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 Of Charge cheap linux web hosting Of Any Kind. free Of Charge cheap linux web hosting is fine for your resume or to tell the history of your dog, but when you are initiating 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 gain 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 compel all the traffic that should have been yours. 4. Seek a cheap linux web hosting With Good Support. It takes many YEARS to completely realize all the issues of the cheap linux web hosting platforms. Even many Internet network business experts with 10 years in business don`t completely realize all the options they have in their control panel. So, if you are a newbie, you could be in big trouble nearly all the time if your cheap linux web hosting doesn`t give you manuals, advice or help you to finish technical tasks. Do not forget that you acquired a cheap linux web hosting to make money, not to lose your time with technical things.
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