Before you decide about the hosting option, it is nice to assess your needs for that hosting company. Following are the factors to look for:
- Cost: Hosting files for your website and making them accessible to others can cost money. A wide range of pricing is available, from close to free to large monthly payments. Don’t expect any web hosting to be completely free. Even if you host your own web server (out of house), you still need to buy the equipment and pay your electric bill and rent. Try to decide a budget you can spend on regular basic for your website hosting.
- Technical Knowledge: Some hosting company requires having a good level of technical skills while others don’t. So, before choosing a hosting option, be honest while you access your technical skills and also the time you are willing to spend using these skills.
- Maintenance: You need to know who is going to maintain your web server. If you will be doing it yourself, you need to perform regular maintenance tasks like making sure the server is running and accessible to other people. If you are using some hosting service, someone else might do this for you but for some money. You need to find how much time you can give to maintain that web server or how much you can spend for this.
- Storage Space: You need to be aware of the space you have available to store your files and keep that in mind while planning your website. Space is needed if your website will aim to provide some files to users or allows them to save some images or videos. So, this requirement depends on the type of site you are looking at.
- Ease: How easy is it to upload and access your files? Remote access (you can connect to it from any other computer) to the server is available or not? These points’ help in later maintenance of the website thus need to be taken care of. Say, you are out of city for more than month and if remote access is not there and you wish to update your site info, it would be difficult to do so.
- Bandwidth: Bandwidth determines how much information can be transmitted over a period of time. Every time your website is downloaded, it uses u some of the bandwidth allotted to you by the web server. One way to think of it is how many times your website files can be downloaded. Some web hosting services put a limit on the amount of bandwidth your website requires. With some hosting options, bandwidth is nearly unlimited, and with others it is restricted. If you expect a lot of people to come to your website, pay attention to the web hosting bandwidth restrictions.
- Domain Name Service: A domain name is an address on the Internet which is owned and stored at some particular place. You need to be aware whether your hosting option will take care of domain name services and at what cost. These services include registering and hosting your domain name.
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