Monday, August 4, 2008

Choosing Cheap Web Hosting Plans Is First Decision

By Max Rad


Everyone wants the best services in cheapest price. The same is the case with web hosting. There are numerous sites available here on internet, featuring various cheap web hosting plans. For a new comer it's so difficult to choose one out of them. Most of the time, sites with the strong optimization in search engine ranking do capture the customers even if their features are not as sound as the rest of the hosting companies. Hence, while choosing for a cheap web hosting plans a customer should not just look on to the sayings or logo of the site, rather a detailed view of all the features and services should be analyzed before coming on to a conclusion. It should always be kept in mind that even for once you site goes down; you will loose all your potential visitors and customers as well as the reputation in the market.

Disk space is the storage area that has been imparted by the hosting company to your web site. Disk space may vary according to the purpose of the site. It could be 100 MB, 250 MB, 500 MB or even 1 GB. For reseller account you may even go for higher disk space like 1 GB, 2 GB 5 GB 10 GB etc. All your files, data, web pages, downloads, uploads are stored here in this disk space only. It should always be ensured that there is a proper disk space management system allotted under cheap web hosting plans.

A cheap web hosting plans should also ensure the user of accessing multiple e-mail accounts. Generally you should be looking for the one which can provide at least 400 e-mail account linked to your server. Suitable tools to manage the e-mail accounts associated with the domain(s) should also be provided in the control panel of the hosting.

Bandwidth allocation is the most needed feature of a web hosting. Every time a site is opened by a visitor, some portion of bandwidth is utilized during the process. Hence a direct connection holds between the traffic and the bandwidth of a site. If the bandwidth limitation exceeds then the site may face the down logging problem. Hence it should always be made clear the bandwidth allocation imparted by the hosting company. A 100 MB space should at least have 2 Gb bandwidth allocation for its successful operation.

Most of the cheap web hosting plans provide domain registration. They allow you to register your domain of .com, .net, .org, etc. Some hosting providers even register one free life time domain for your.

A business site always needs shopping cart software, hence a cheap web hosting plan should also impart a customizable and completely secure shopping cart software to cater the need of a complete business site.

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