People all the time ask us about hosting plans.
Not everyone’s website will require server space akin to what The Doctor’s holographic program would.
Many people, people who are just creating a small website can do with ’small’ hosting.
There are a myriad of sizes of web hosting plans and you should find one that suits your site best.
You’ll want to consider if the place you choose to hose will include your domain name as many don’t. You’ll want to consider disk space too. A graphic intensive website will eat up disk space and the last thing you want when you’re conserving money by hosting somewhere cheap is to get hit with a large overage fee.
You’ll also want to look at the transfer rate. Is it unlimited?
Does the hosting company offer a money back guarantee. If ‘green’ is important to you – you’ll want to find out if the hosting platform is green too.
You’ll expect to pay way more if you want a private server or dedicated hosting, but for most websites, shared hosting is sufficient.
Is there a setup fee? A domain fee? Be sure to check for all associated fees before you sign on the dotted line.
Do you want to be able to sell online? Check for shopping cart compatibility.
How many email accounts come with the service? Is there an email bandwidth limit? People that send images back and forth or other large files ‘may’ find themselves eating an extra back-end charge due to excessive bandwidth coming from just sending photos back and forth.
What’s the up-time? Is there 24 hour support?
Compare your final webhosting choices also to see if you can upgrade in the future.
Websites shouldn’t be stagnant. They should grow. Your site just might take off like LCARS (Library Computer Access Retrieval System) and require an upgrade to keep up with your popularity.
Whatever you do, get to doing it with warp speed.
Just
“Make it so.”