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Choosing
the right company to host your website is a crucial decision.
Here are five essential questions
you should perhaps be asking:
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Do
your potential web hoster's servers have the right
ingredients
for your website? What can they
place in your CGI bin? Can they handle PERL scripting?
This is essential if you want to include forms. Can
they accommodate SQL databases? These are important
for many things, including username and password entry?
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How
good is their communication
system? Do they respond to emails? Do they
return your calls? Do they really answer your questions and
handle your concerns in an understanding way? Do they actually
answer the phone? We were recently contacted by a company
who could not get in touch with their website hoster. We spent
3 days trying to do it; only managing, finally, by going through
the 'back door'.
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Can
the web hoster also handle your company
email? Does it have webmail and mail forwarding
as part of the package, or does it charge extra? How many
email accounts do you get? Combining web hosting and email
in one company can be an effective and efficient way to proceed,
providing it's done well!
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If
you want online trading,
can the web hoster handle a 'back-end' system, with ColdFusion
or other reputable e-commerce software?
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Finally,
what sort of pricing system
do they have? In most circumstances, web hosting should not
be expensive. Indeed, a small company, with a site of less
than 10Mb and only three email accounts, can get reliable
hosting for £6 per month.
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By
the way,
it's a myth that your web hoster needs to be local. It really
doesn't matter where your server is, so long as you're on the
same planet! The site you're on right now is based in the US.
The only factors that matter are the range
of service, the quality
of service and price. |
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