Sunday, June 8, 2008

Seattle Website Hosting

By Ade Carone

Before you do anything regarding your website hosting, be it for Seattle or any other city, you need to consider a few important factors. Can you think of what might happen to major companies and corporations if they invested in a poor host? Their profits and business would go down the tubes.

A webhost is the backbone of your business. It is so important that you find a host that will give you a guarantee of at least 99% percent uptime. That way, you know you can be selling your product while you sleep.

There are only a small handful of features which should influence your purchase decision. A lot of the add-on features which webhosts provide, are not needed or may not even be used by you.

You main concern is obviously the benefit to cost ratio. You certainly don't want to pay any more than $14 dollars a month. Even $12 a month is plenty for the average site. Also look for "unlimited domains" if possible.

Right after the price and multiple website hosting options, comes the next important factor. That factor would be none other than storage.

If you need more space, some companies even offer more than 400GB of storage space. I have never used this much space in my life, for any website. If you do require that much though, many services offer this much room.

Perhaps even the most important factor to some, is the bandwidth you are allowed each month. Most sites will never use more than 5GB of bandwidth, but if you receive a lot of traffic, you will need a good amount.

If you had 500GB of bandwidth or more, your site would be able to get millions upon millions of visits each month.

These factors I just explained are the basis for any good webhost. The only other thing to consider is whether or not you want to run a Linux vs a Windows server. If your applications will require ASP, then you should get a Windows server.

I also like Linux servers because of their stability.

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