by blog: Cheap web hosting service from: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:38:06 +0100
If you open up Google and do a search on the `cheap web hosting service`, more than many million web pages appear as a result. With that much competition, is it really easy to get lost while searching for a cheap web hosting service company and estimating which are the most important elements to regard. The most important elements are: 1. The cheap web hosting service company must have a control over their servers. Most of the cheap web hosting service industry is based on reselling server space to someone else. If the provider you select don`t own the space, it could happen that when you desire to go to another provider for any reason, you depend on their willingness to help you. This in reality happened to me some years ago when the cheap web hosting service provider with which I was working was very helpful, but was sold and after that, when I wanted to move a customer to a new cheap web hosting service, the company don`t even answered my emails. It is very difficult to move a large site without having root access, but I had to do it. Although I lost several days and it was very unpleasant, the migration even wasn`t perfect. Today I own a VPS (and root access to it) and my life is good. If you are really on a budget and can`t afford a VPS, go for a shared cheap web hosting service like HostGator, which is a reputable provider. 2. Don`t let your cheap web hosting service company own your domain. Your domain is your brand on the Internet network. Moreover, when you acquire links to your web-site you gain traffic from them to your domain, not to your cheap web hosting service. If you lose your domain, all the traffic that you have from those hard earned links are lost instantly. If the cheap web hosting service company offers 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 web hosting service Of Any Kind. Free cheap web hosting service is good for your resume or to tell the history of your dog, but when you are launching a business, even a little one, it is very weighty 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 web hosting service provider because if later you choose to have your own domain, all the links you got will still be pointing to the cheap web hosting service provider which will get all the traffic that should have been yours. 4. Seek a cheap web hosting service With Good Support. It takes many YEARS to fully appreciate all the issues of the cheap web hosting service platforms. Even many Internet business experts with 10 years in business don`t fully appreciate 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 web hosting service doesn`t give you manuals, advice or help you to finish technical tasks. Keep in mind that you got a cheap web hosting service to make money, not to waste your time with technical things.
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