How do you choose a hosting company

Webmaster Serve has been doing series of post on web hosting, the latest post is on how to choose a good web hosting company, here is a taste from the article:

For a web site to be made available on the Internet, it has to be hosted on a server by a hosting company. A web hosting company is a company that provides services which places your web site on a server which is connected to the Internet. They holds websites and the information they contain, for an individual or a company.

The question is now, how does one choose a good web hosting company.

* A good web hosting company should have enough resources available to offer their user’s reliability and stability ie their equipment and servers can handle their customers effectively. The hosting company should offers the business related hosting services you need now, and those you will need in the future because moving your website from server to server you may encounter some problems when migrating from one hosting company to another.

*  Make sure the web hosting company is reliable. A hosting company must use fast and reliable servers, their server should be up at least 99 percent of the time. Ask if the host has back-up servers available for use when the server is down.
Remember AGE is GoLD, the company should have been in business for at least two years.

You can read the full article here

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