by blog: Ecommerce web hosting canada from: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:38:29 +0100
If you open up Google and do a search on the ` web hosting`, more than many million web pages appear as a result. With that much competition, is it fully easy to get lost while searching for a domain web hosting provider and reviewing which are the most important components to weigh up. The most important components are: 1. The domain web hosting provider must have a control over their servers. The larger part of the domain web hosting industry is based on reselling server space to someone else. If the company you select don`t own the space, it could happen that when you need to move to another company for any reason, you depend on their will to help you. This actually happened to me a few years ago when the domain web hosting company with which I was cooperating was very useful, but was sold and after that, when I wanted to move a client to a different domain web hosting, the provider don`t even answered my emails. It is very problematic to move a huge web-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. Today I own 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 domain web hosting as HostGator, which is a reputable provider. 2. Don`t let your domain web hosting company own your domain. Your domain is your brand on the Internet. Also, when you acquire links to your site you gain traffic from them to your domain, not to your domain web hosting. If you lose your domain, all the traffic that you get from those hard earned links are lost immediately. If the domain 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 domain web hosting Of Any Kind. Free domain web hosting is wonderful 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 weighty 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 domain 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 domain web hosting company which will have all the traffic that should have been yours. 4. Seek a domain web hosting With Good Support. It takes many YEARS to completely understand all the issues of the domain web hosting platforms. Even many Internet network 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 practically all the time if your domain web hosting doesn`t give you manuals, advice or help you to fulfill technical tasks. Think of that you got a domain web hosting to make money, not to waste your time with technical things.
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