Web Hosting Guide and Tips

Buying the right web hosting solution is a very important decision. Whether your website is for an online business, an information resource, a discussion forum, or for sharing views on a hobby or interest, you must use a web hosting service that will allow everyone else to view your creation. It is web hosting that empowers you to share information, sell products and services, and interact with people through a web site. Trying to choose a web host can be a very confusing exercise, especially when you consider the growing number of web hosts and their confusing advertisements. Therefore, it is important that before jumping in, you go through some sort of a research process for selecting the most appropriate web hosting company for your Internet presence.

What are some of the things you should look for when choosing a web hosting? Here are some article that we found to be the criteria for choosing a hosting for commercial web:

1. Reliability and speed of access

   Not only should the web host be reliable and fast, it should guarantee its uptime. Look for a guarantee uptime of 99%. The host should provide some sort of refund (prorated refund or discount) if it falls below that figure. Note that our services always offered refund if something hapenned with our uptime.
   Uptime Credit - Percentage Monthly 99% to 100% = 0%, 98% to 98,9%  = 5%, 95% - 97,9% = 10%, 90% - 94,9% = 25%, Under 89,9%  = 50%

2. Data Transfer (Traffic/Bandwidth)

   Data transfer (sometimes loosely referred to as “traffic” or “bandwidth”) is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site.

   Don’t believe any commercial web host that advertises “unlimited bandwidth”. The host has to pay for the bandwidth, and if you consume a lot of it, they will not silently bear your costs. Many high bandwidth websites have found this out the hard way when they suddenly receive an exhorbitant bill for having “exceeded” the “unlimited bandwidth”. Always look for details on how much traffic the package allows. I personally always stay clear of any host that advertises “unlimited transfer”, even if the exact amount is specified somewhere else (sometimes buried in their policy statements). Usually you will find that they redefine “unlimited” to be limited in some way.

   To give you a rough idea of the typical traffic requirements of a website, most new sites that are not software archives or the like use less than 3GB of bandwidth per month. Your traffic requirements will grow over time, as your site becomes more well-known (and well-linked), so you will need to also check their policy for overages: is there a published charge per GB over the allowed bandwidth? Is the charge made according to actual usage or are you expected to pre-pay for a potential overage? It is better not to go for hosts that expect you to prepay for overages, since it is very hard to forsee when your site will exceed its bandwidth and by how much.

3. Disk space

   For the same reason as bandwidth, watch out also for those “disk space” schemes. Most of our package is start from 50mb. We took that minimum size with comparing many things, such as email, web page and also the script installation. We also provide more package for big range depend of website type. So if you need extra space for picture gallery, product, and etc. You can choose which plan that suite with your requirements.

4. Technical support

   We support you always by email or phone. Here you will get answers to any questions you have or reach an IndorackSpace.com representative immediately. Use the form or direct call to navigate through our technical support center.

5. Email, Autoresponders, POP3, Mail Forwarding

   If you have your own site, you would probably want to have email addresses at your own domain, like sales@yourdomain.com, etc. Does the host provide this with the package? Does it allow you to have a catch-all email account that allows anyname@yourdomain.com to wind up being routed to you? Can you set an email address to automatically reply to the sender with a preset message ? Can you retrieve your mail with your email software? Can it be automatically forwarded to your current email address?The answer is yes. We have all the Email Service based in our cpanel control panel.

6. Control Panel

   This is called various names by different hosts, but essentially, they all allow you to manage different aspects of your web account yourself. Typically, and at the very minimum, it should allow you to do things like add, delete, and manage your email addresses, and change passwords for your account. I would not go for a host where I have to go through their technical support each time I want to change a password or add/delete an email account. Such chores are common maintenance chores that every webmaster performs time and time again, and it would be a great hassle if you had to wait for their technical support to make the changes for you.