Saturday, June 30, 2007

How to Find a Reliable Web Host

There are many things that you should consider before choosing your web hosting provider. THE MOST important thing to look for is reliable web hosting providers. Unfortunately, reliable web hosting providers are not easy to come by. Lets first start out by defining what a reliable web hosting provider is. A reliable web hosting provider is a company that is going to stick by your side though all of the problems that you might have.

In this article we will teach you a few EASY steps in finding reliable web hosting. This will save you the hassle of finding a unreliable host and going through many issues that are unsolved.

1. Make sure the company has a guarantee.

Make sure that your company has at least a 99.9% uptime guarantee. This shows that they have high quality equipment that they know is not going to fail on them.

2. Check reviews about the company.

Go to google and type in the name of the company and see if they are well established. A great place to look is on web hosting forums. You can post threads asking other members what they think about the host. You might be surprised at the response you get.

3. Do they have customer support?

Does the company have support tickets or a phone number to call. Either one is great.

If both of these steps are completed and both come out with great results.. you have just found a reliable web hosting company.


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The Truth About Unlimited Hosting

When looking for a Web Hosting company to provide space for you, you normally look for the best deal with the most to offer. What your soon find out is that your “good deal” turns out to be a wrong move. False advertising is what you have fallen into.

When you people see the words "Unlimited Web Hosting" they are drawn in immediately. The problem is that you cannot receive unlimited web hosting. It is truly impossible.

Most companies will advertise webspace and bandwidth that they don’t even have. Many companies today offer you unlimited, or an astronomical amount of webspace for a inexpensive price. The problem is that most companies don’t have that much space to give out. What they are doing is hoping that you don’t use all of the space that they allotted you. But, if you decided to use all of your 200GB, most likely you will have a slow server or no server at all.

When a company offers you 200GB of webspace, most people dont understand how much space that really is. 200GB of webspace is the amount of space that a large computer has. A company is not going to actually give you a computer's worth of webspace for only a couple dollars a month.

There are certain ways to protect yourself from falling into the scam of unlimited Bandwidth. The best one is carefully read the company’s terms of use and conditions. Most of the time you will find out what they say about there unlimited hosting and is a little different than what they told you before.

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