Unbiased Step-by-step Guide on Web-Hosting
Unbiased Step-by-step Guide on Web-Hosting copyright (c) Pavel
Lenshin
No more speeches about importance of your own domain, no more
talks about necessity of having paid hosting. If you think your
brand domain name and stable hosting with a number of features
and absence of ads are not worth, at least, $50-$150 per year,
then you probably want to play games, rather than build online
business.
Choosing hosting provider is something similar to choosing the
place of your off-line office. Despite the fact that it is as
easy to enter the URL and go to web-site that is physically
located in Sidney as in Oslo, the final role here plays the
speed of connection and stability of the hosting itself.
The problem with hosting comes down to the old statute of
running ebusiness - that is RESEARCH before ACT! The easiest
thing to do online is to pay money, the hardest is to THINK OVER
what I'm paying for! That statement is true with hosting also
because you can pay, let's say, $35 monthly for some particular
hosting service, without notice that in two mouse clicks there
is an hosting offer providing two times better services all for
$15 per month only, so you will keep on losing services as well
as $20 monthly that accumulates up to $240 annually losses as a
Fee for not doing hosting research! Besides you should keep your
eyes open for very good discounted offers that could save you
30-50% for the first year of payments.
Phase I - Determining NEEDS
1. Estimate your ebusiness basic requirements: total web-space
needed, monthly bandwidth (approximate traffic volume multiplied
by the most visited web-pages' total size) and ability to run
CGI scripts as a must for every ebusiness.
If it is content rich web-site and example of your first year of
hosting may look like this: