Website hosting is an early
decision to make but an important one.
The location of your website hosting account
may have a bearing on your
position in the search engines, for example sites hosted in the UK may
perform better in
www.google.co.uk
than US hosted sites for the same term.
If you are serious about your business then
paid business web site hosting rather than free hosting is the only way to
go. After all you will need contact details that you can call upon at any
given notice if there is a problem, we therefore advise 24 hour telephone
support.
That does not mean that hosting cannot be cheap, there are many superb
packages from around $5 or $5 per month that offer all the services and
bandwidth that most medium sized websites would need. Some companies such
as Top Hosts offer information on
many UK hosting companies, remember to ask about and read other users
opinions.
A shared hosting account is the normal approach, only when a website grows
substantially would you then need to go in search of a dedicated server
host.
Don't be tempted by the first offer you see, there are website hosting
review forums that have previous customer reviews of the host and claims
of offering unlimited bandwidth or 99% uptime guarantees can often be
questioned. In saying that people who do reviews are always more likely to
be the unhappy one's, people are always quicker to say something bad about
a company rather than take the time to say something nice.
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