subject: Web Hosting - A key to success for online business [print this page] Many online businesses compromise with low standard hosting to save some dollars perhaps; there are many losses a business could come across while buying hosting service from cheap hosting provider who do not offer value hosting.
Having website on server with 99.9% redundancy could give positive impact, as the online business is available 24x7x365 to serve them secondly, there are chances that visiting search engine robots may give negative marking if the website is down due to non-redundancy of server.
Having 99.9% is not enough, the hosting account should come with excellent spam protected email service too. There are many hosting provider who don't consider spam protection from postini or relevant service, so the email account should have high standard of filtering, encryption and other standards to facilitate
Having option to host PHP / ASP / ASP.NET could add value to hosting, although its not necessary but this option could save some time when a windows hosting require PHP support inorder to install blogs and other PHP application
There are many hosting provider offers auto installation of open source applications like Joomla, Wordpress and SugarCRM, which are very useful as it doesn't require any technical knowledge or expertise to install these applications.
One of the excellent features offered by Hosting Provider is to offer free credits toward Adwords, Facebook and free monthly subscription to constantcontact and other such services. These free credits, if utilized properly can recover the cost made against the hosting service.
One of the important aspect of Hosting Provider needs to check is the testimonial on various online testimonial website, check for any discount coupons, check how long the company been operating, also check what kind of bandwidth or backbone is being used and do they have alternate backbone and power supply incase there is power outrage or disrupt in internet services.
Web Hosting - A key to success for online business
By: Sabrina Smith
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