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How to choose a good web host?
You will be overwhelmed when you begin searching for a website
host for you new website and if you do not understand what they
are offering for the price you may be surprised at what you get.
You will hear words like 25MB, bandwidth, ftp, email forwarding,
php, cgi-bin and fantastico. All of these are things that are
offered with different packages that you will find. Before you
decide let's look at what you might need and how to know that
you are receiving this.
Most website hosting companies will have their packages grouped
by the various things they offer, of course the more you get the
larger the price will be. The basic package is usually around
25MB of web space. This is how much space the hosting company
will allow you to have on their web server. This is with shared
hosting. There will be other websites also on this server with
you, each with their own packages and amounts of space.
Bandwidth is how much data you are allow to use in a certain
amount of time, usually monthly. Bandwidth is used each time you
upload web pages, images, or some one visits your website. If
you are only allowed a small amount of bandwidth like say 50MB
then you may run out of bandwidth if you plan on adding a lot of
pages, or you are expecting many visitors.
Ftp is a way of getting into your website through the backdoor.
This will enable you to upload your web pages, images and
install scripts in a pretty easy fashion. All you need to do is
place the folders in the proper place in the correct folder.
Email forwarding can be very useful. You can have any email that
is sent to your website forwarded to another email account that
you have. This way no matter how many websites you
have you have
all the emails forwarded to one main account.
Php is a way in which website are coded. This is used for
building scripts and even some template designs. Php is very
popular for its fast loading time. Some php scripts will also
require MySql database. This is another feature that you can
add. These databases are very fast loading and do not require
any maintenance after they are up.
Cgi-bin is another way to host different scripts. If you wish to
use cgi scripts you must be sure that you have a cgi-bin
included in your hosting package. These are some what more
difficult than php scripts but many people enjoy these types of
scripts.
Fantastico is a compilation of several scripts that can be
installed directly from your control panel.
You can search online for hosting companies and remember to
compare. If you are just wanting a simple website you will
probably not need all the extra goodies and normally no more
than 25MB of web space and around 500MB of bandwidth should
work. You may even wish to try some free hosting until you
understand how everything works. But, remember more than likely
you will be offered a sub-domain like
yoursite.theirdomainname.com. This is not the best way to get
web traffic, so I would only use a free hosting company that
would allow your own domain name and check out paid hosting as
well. Many of these paid hosting companies can give you so much
more than a free hosted site and the cost is not always
tremendous.
About the author:
Author is the editor of Web Hosting Reviews
( http://www.webhostingtoplist.com ), a top list of quality low
cost web hosting companies.
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