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Why do you need a good web host?
Free or Paid?
www.geocities.com For business sites, free hosting is really not an option. This is partly because of the ads that will appear on your site, over which you have little control. It is also partly because you will have a ridiculously long domain name to deal with, such as www.thefreehost.com/usersites/yoursite/. Mainly it is not a good idea to use a free host for a business, because it projects a poor image of the business. If a business cannot afford the small amount of money it costs for paid hosting, often less than $150 per year, it is difficult to expect potential customers to take them seriously.
How much Disk Space and Bandwidth? AffiliateAdvice.us recommends that you keep your site as text-based as possible, because that will help you to become more easily listed in the search engines, but that's up to you. For most newer sites, disk space and bandwidth needs are usually modest. Statistically ,the average website is less than 20MB. Being swayed to a more expensive hosting plan because of a large disk space allocation may not be a great idea if you are paying for a ridiculous amount of space you will never use. Make sure that there is a means of upgrading your plan should your needs change in the future. Unless your site is likely to be extremely busy from the outset, or you are making heavy use of Flash, video, or audio, you are unlikely to need more than the standard bandwidth which will be provided with standard hosting plan. In general, as the disk space allocated increases, so does the bandwidth.
Individual Requirements For example, you may need the latest version of Perl, PHP Support, a large number of POP accounts, access to a secure server, MySQL, etc. Or maybe you don't know what any of that stuff is, and really, you just want to be able to build some pages, upload them, and make sure that when you have problems, someone can help you out, so perhaps a toll free support number matters more. It is important to get your requirements clear so that when you compare hosts you are comparing oranges with oranges, rather than oranges with lemons... Oh and speaking of...watch out for the lemons. There are a few web hosts around still who are not great, and a few bad new ones pop up from time to time. They aren't good because they don't deliver on what they promise you at the outset. Any of the hosting programs that you can resell through the Web design affiliate programs page on affiliateadvice are great, and our general advice is to use a web host that is recommended to you by someone you know and/or trust. For example, if you've been pleased with your experience so far on affiliateadvice.us, and think you could benefit from high quality service as well as a very inexpensive (less than $8/month) web host, you might consider using our web host, Powweb. The bottom line is that there are a variety of web hosts out there, and a variety of them offer different kinds of services. If you don't know what your needs are, or do know today, but don't know what your needs may be in the future, it's a good idea to have a package which either gives you everything you need from the outset, for not a lot of money, or have a host that gives you the ability to upgrade when you need to.
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Why do you need a good web host?
Free or Paid?
www.geocities.com For business sites, free hosting is really not an option. This is partly because of the ads that will appear on your site, over which you have little control. It is also partly because you will have a ridiculously long domain name to deal with, such as www.thefreehost.com/usersites/yoursite/. Mainly it is not a good idea to use a free host for a business, because it projects a poor image of the business. If a business cannot afford the small amount of money it costs for paid hosting, often less than $150 per year, it is difficult to expect potential customers to take them seriously.
How much Disk Space and Bandwidth? AffiliateAdvice.us recommends that you keep your site as text-based as possible, because that will help you to become more easily listed in the search engines, but that's up to you. For most newer sites, disk space and bandwidth needs are usually modest. Statistically ,the average website is less than 20MB. Being swayed to a more expensive hosting plan because of a large disk space allocation may not be a great idea if you are paying for a ridiculous amount of space you will never use. Make sure that there is a means of upgrading your plan should your needs change in the future. Unless your site is likely to be extremely busy from the outset, or you are making heavy use of Flash, video, or audio, you are unlikely to need more than the standard bandwidth which will be provided with standard hosting plan. In general, as the disk space allocated increases, so does the bandwidth.
Individual Requirements For example, you may need the latest version of Perl, PHP Support, a large number of POP accounts, access to a secure server, MySQL, etc. Or maybe you don't know what any of that stuff is, and really, you just want to be able to build some pages, upload them, and make sure that when you have problems, someone can help you out, so perhaps a toll free support number matters more. It is important to get your requirements clear so that when you compare hosts you are comparing oranges with oranges, rather than oranges with lemons... Oh and speaking of...watch out for the lemons. There are a few web hosts around still who are not great, and a few bad new ones pop up from time to time. They aren't good because they don't deliver on what they promise you at the outset. Any of the hosting programs that you can resell through the Web design affiliate programs page on affiliateadvice are great, and our general advice is to use a web host that is recommended to you by someone you know and/or trust. For example, if you've been pleased with your experience so far on affiliateadvice.us, and think you could benefit from high quality service as well as a very inexpensive (less than $8/month) web host, you might consider using our web host, Powweb. The bottom line is that there are a variety of web hosts out there, and a variety of them offer different kinds of services. If you don't know what your needs are, or do know today, but don't know what your needs may be in the future, it's a good idea to have a package which either gives you everything you need from the outset, for not a lot of money, or have a host that gives you the ability to upgrade when you need to. This article was reprinted from affiliateadvice.us, where you can find great affiliate programs and ways to generate online income.
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