It is a fact that importance of web hosting can be understood gradually. You can always find something or other new to it. Memorizing the new things helps to achieve growth in business and plays a pivotal role in flourishing results.
Without the benefits of a comprehensive hosting service, a content provider or an online marketer will be restricted by a limited-growth environment. An inadequate hosting service might satisfy the needs of today, but it will starve new growth tomorrow. This article describes the characteristics of a good hosting service.
CHARACTERISTICS
At a minimum, a good hosting service today should have the following:
Affordable hosting plans–but not necessarily the cheapest,
Readily available customer service,
24/7 technical assistance,
Comprehensive online documentation,
Database support,
Adequate disk storage and Non-restrictive data transfer policy,
Multiple domain hosting on a single account,
Multiple sub-domains on a single account,
Comprehensive scripting support, and a
Comprehensive management control panel.
It goes without saying that an acceptable hosting service would also include these:
full email support, including POP3 accounts and email forwarding,
site-building templates for easy web-design and customization,
useful scripts for such things as e-commerce, forums, blogs, and photo-galleries, and
multimedia support.
Variety of services that they are putting on offer. It is important that there is a range for you to choose from, and services that are able to fit even the most unique of needs. Customisability is really the mother of all successes when thinking about the technical front.
An online marketer should also expect to find good security, such as password protected directories,Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for safe e-commerce transactions,
email-auto-responders, and mailing list capabilities.
A good hosting service will provide these, too — and much more.
PRICE
Price is also an important point to be considered. It is not preferred to run behind the “cheaper” factor, but also consider your requirement along with the cost. Select the apt proportion between the needs and the cost.
Support: Support is an essential requirement for better hosting services and is also essential in the business of web hosting and can develop or shatter the initialization of the business plan quicker, either way. It is true that if regular support is provided to the customers in return you manage to become accurate, fast and friendly. And also your brand shall become a big name. However it is necessary to be consistent with your support being provided. A general tendency of the hosts and clients found today are in favor of outsourcing. Until and unless you have the adequate and required human resource outsourcing shall be definitely preferable.
Performance
Performance, and this is down to the speed of the servers that you are going to be given. While this is more important when you are considering how reliable it is going to be, you need to know your stuff as well. We can split this down to two basic things – one is the OS that your server and your site is going to be running on, and the next thing is the horsepower that the server is going to output. For one thing, you need to know – shared or dedicated – that the resource pipeline is going to be powerful and sustainable.
CONCLUSIONS
Over the years, I have hosted various kinds of web sites including forums, complex content management systems(CMS), blogs, as well as more conventional sites. Most importantly, I have been able to host these–at the same time–on a single host account. These included different domains, with or without sub-domains, and with database access when needed. With the right hosting service, you will not have to be concerned about the number of domains or sub-domains you want to host or the applications you want to run. If you start out with the right hosting service, you will be able to look forward to unrestricted growth as your needs and ideas expand.