A few years ago, choosing a company to host your website was an exercise in frustration and confusion. But now, with so many web hosting companies competing for your business, you’re assured of finding more than one company that will meet your needs. Your biggest problem will be choosing among the candidate companies. With free web hosting and packages starting at $1.95 per month, the money you spend getting your website up and running can go much further than it could a few years ago.

You’ll need to do some research on web hosting companies first. While most companies offer generous bandwidth, disk space, and email accounts, variables such as cost and availability of technical support increase in importance. Here are some ways to begin your search for the perfect web host.

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Some businesses host their own web site on their own server (or servers) while other businesses hire a web hosting provider or buy hosting services through an Internet service provider. Once you know the differences between virtual and dedicated web hosting, you will have an easier time evaluating cost, risk, and flexibility in order to decide which type of hosting is right for you.

You can think of web hosting as being divided into two types: virtual web hosting and dedicated web hosting. Virtual web hosting is often favored by small businesses because of its cost effectiveness. With virtual web hosting, you rent space alongside many other businesses on a server. While it sounds as if all the businesses are jumbled up on one piece of hardware, what is actually the case is that each client in a virtual web hosting environment has its own server resources blocked off from everybody else’s, including processor, memory, and disk space. This works well for businesses that don’t need a lot of disk space or bandwidth to operate their web site. It is also a great choice for clients who want to manage a number of separate web sites at a low cost.

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If you are creating a website for yourself or your business and you are trying to determine which web hosting provider to choose to host your site, you may wish that you could get a comprehensive listing of web hosts along with their services, prices, and contact information. Fortunately, there are such references: web hosting directories.

There are several web hosting directories, but as one example, http://www.webhostdir.com/ works like this. At the very top of the home page are two tabs, one for “Web Hosting” and the other for “Dedicated Server.” If you don’t yet know whether your businesses website will require a dedicated server, chances are good that it will not. Most business websites are small enough that shared web hosting offers adequate services for their website needs.

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Even for offline businesses, having a website is a huge plus. For those starting new businesses, whether they are Internet based or brick and mortar, designing a website is a necessity. Fortunately, even Internet novices have tools available that will help them develop a fully functional, attractive website. Another advantage that the owner of a new website has is the wealth of competition in the market of web hosting. Web hosting is the business of putting your website on hardware that connects to the Internet, and making sure that connection is healthy.
The actual hardware on which your website will reside is called a server. Most websites do not need an entire server to function adequately, and there are hosting companies that offer shared hosting, meaning that several websites “live” on one physical server. One problem with plain vanilla shared hosting is that problems with one site can affect the other sites on the server. In other words, if any one site brings down the server, it also brings down all the other sites with it.

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If you have never set up a website, you probably have plenty of questions about how to do it. One question you might ask yourself is, “Why should I pay for web hosting when there are plenty of sites offering free web hosting?” It’s a perfectly valid question, especially if you don’t have a nice big pot of venture capital to spend.

Once you have a written business plan, it’s time to do some research on which hosting firm is most suitable for your website. You will need to know, obviously, if you plan to sell products from your site, or if it will be strictly promotional. Do you plan to have video? Elaborate graphics? Or just text? Will your chosen host provider help you set up your web site? How many email accounts will you need?

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