What Makes The Best Website Hosting Company

by: Jay Moncliff

 

When choosing the best website hosting company, it is important to consider several things before making your choice. As they say " You never get a second chance at a first impression." This is true when we are talking about your website!

 

Web hosting is a service that allows users to post Web pages to the Internet. A Web host, or hosting service provider (HSP), is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for Web sites to be viewed on the Web.

 

When you choose hosting for your website consider the following things.

 

Price: Don’t simply look for the lowest price. Your website is your lively hood and you need reliablity that you may not get with cheap hosting.

 

Technical Support: Is it available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? If you have a question you need an answer.

 

Yes

 

Features: Various internet hosting companies offer a variety of services. Make a list of what you know you want your website to do. Here are a few services you will want to consider. Set up fees, transfer fees, email aliases, site stats, contol panel, site creation tool, front page extensions, submit to search engines, sub domains, multiple domain discounts.

 

Here at anthonybarlow.com we never charge a setup fee or have any other hidden fees. The price you see is the price you pay. The only thing we do not offer is currently frontpage extensions.

 

Disk Space: The amount of disk space that will be allotted to your web site is another of the key elements in a good web host package. While it might seem that 30 megabytes is plenty of room, the potential for growth of your company means that you could easily need more space later. If you choose a web hosting provider that simply can't offer more space, you might find that your growth will be severely limited.

 

Our servers have been designed and developed with this in mind. It's very easy to upgrade a users disk space.

 

E-mail accounts: How many e-mail accounts do you need? You'll probably need one for each employee and one for each department (sales, accounts, support). Make sure you purchase a hosting plan that has enough e-mail accounts. Also, do you want full POPS access, Web-based e- mail, or both?

 

anthonybarlow.com offer both types of services as standard. With an easy to use managment console that lets you add and remove email accounts and aliases.

 

E-commerce: Will you be selling goods or services through your site? If not, there's no need to sign up for an e-commerce web hosting service. If you are, e-commerce web hosting services such as shopping cart software, SSL support and a merchant account will be vital.

 

Our software as this support already built in.

 

Speed: You need to know how fast your internet hosting provider can provide access to your visitors.

 

We use 1GB interfaces for our network connections.

 

Uptime: This may be the most important thing when choosing the best web hosting company. You can not make money if your web site is down.

 

Unlike some hosting providers, our servers are actual servers, not servers made out of PC's. This means we can offer a 99.9% uptime garantee