Web-hosting
and designing the apt website for your business can be quite a daunting
task for the uninitiated. Notwithstanding the jargon and the fact that
most of the technical nitty-gritty would sound like a death knell to
you, it is important and is something that your online or offline
venture cannot do without. When it comes to website designing and
hosting, there are a few secrets that the industry tends to keep them
under wraps. Not that it would eat up your bottom-lines but it might
help you in making the most prudent decisions with regards to your small
business web design and hosting requirements.
Here
is a list of a few things to keep in mind for the non-technical YOU.
The more you pay heed, the better your decision is going to be.
• Read the terms and conditions of your web hosting provider and ensure that you know what you are getting for your money.
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Choose a plan that is appropriate for you. Some web hosting providers
lure you into believing that they provide you with "Unlimited
bandwidth". No one can provide with Unlimited "disk space" and
"bandwidth" just because it is a saturated market out there amongst the
web hosting providers and there is no one in the world to be able to
provide you with the same. It is a marketing gimmick and it helps if you
are aware of this fact. What is required here is your acuity and
decision making skills - You ought to know approximately how much
traffic your website must be getting to determine the bandwidth and the
disk space. The hosting providers can manage to con you into believing
that you have access to "Unlimited" Bandwidth and disk space because
they know that most small business owners and webmasters do not need a
lot of these parameters and hence they get to improvise.
•
Please do ensure that you know your web-hosting provider's policy with
regards to increasing your bandwidth requirements if you envision your
web site's traffic. Higher number of hits on your website would mean
more bandwidth requirements. Just keep track of the surges in traffic
and ensure that your provider gives you the flexibility of increasing
the band-width as and when required. Also, pay special attention if you
intend to include videos, blogs and mp3 content on your site. You need
to make a lot more space available for all that content and you have to
think about all this when you talk to your web-hosting provider.
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Does your hosting provider have a range of hosting services - ranging
from shared common hosting to Dedicated servers or virtual servers? Does
your service provider also provide you with other relevant products
like email, traffic boosters, blogs, photo sharing utilities and a whole
lot of things depending on your unique requirements?
