by blog: Colocation discount web hosting from: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:38:08 +0100
If you open up Google and do a search on the `colocation discount web hosting`, more than many million web pages appear as a result. With that much competition, is it practically easy to get lost while searching for a colocation discount web hosting provider and assessing which are the most essential items to weigh up. The most essential items are: 1. The colocation discount web hosting provider must have a control over their servers. The principal part of the colocation discount web hosting industry is based on reselling server space to someone else. If the company you choose don`t own the space, it could happen that when you desire to go to another company for any reason, you depend on their willingness to help you. This actually happened to me some years ago when the colocation discount web hosting provider with which I was cooperating was very advantageous, but was sold and after that, when I needed to move a client to a different colocation discount web hosting, the company don`t even replied 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 several days and it was very awful, the migration even wasn`t perfect. Nowadays I get a VPS (and root access to it) and my life is OK. If you are surely on a budget and can`t afford a VPS, go for a shared colocation discount web hosting as HostGator, which is a reputable provider. 2. Don`t let your colocation discount web hosting company own your domain. Your domain is your brand on the Internet. In addition, when you acquire links to your website you get traffic from them to your domain, not to your colocation discount web hosting. If you lose your domain, all the traffic that came from those hard earned links are lost right away. If the colocation discount web hosting provider suggests 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 colocation discount web hosting Of Any Kind. Free colocation discount web hosting is wonderful for your resume or to tell the history of your dog, but when you are commencing 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 colocation discount web hosting company because if in future you choose to have your own domain, all the links you got will still be pointing to the colocation discount web hosting company which will force all the traffic that should have been yours. 4. Seek a colocation discount web hosting With Good Support. It takes many YEARS to completely understand all the issues of the colocation discount web hosting platforms. Even many net business experts with 10 years in business don`t completely understand 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 colocation discount web hosting doesn`t give you manuals, advice or help you to fulfill technical tasks. Do not forget that you acquired a colocation discount web hosting to make money, not to lose your time with technical things.
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