Choosing your hosting plan: read these hosting tips:
Customers normally choose a hosting plan which is low in price but rarely look into the features that the hosting plan has. Hosting companies are giving heavy discount to make customer go for their hosting plans but on the contrary initial payment is less but renewal of hosting cost very heavily to the customer. Price is not important factor if you are looking for a good hosting plan.
Webxile Hosting plans: Choose from the best
Storage Space: Disk Space
Disk space is one of the most important aspect of
choosing hosting plan. For a simple static or dynamic website 2-5Gb of Disk
space is more then enough but if your website has flash, multi-media files,
audio the your require 5Gb of disk space
for better functioning of your website.
Initial
website development has different perspectives as after 5-6 months you might
require to upgrade the disk space as more things would be added to the website.
So it is advisable to choose a plan that has more disk space which can be used
later when you upgrade your website.
Monthly Bandwidth
Another
important aspect of choosing web hosting plan is band width. Every time
customer visit your website files that make up page , HTML, pictures, audio,
download file etc are transferred to company server this data is measured and
the more customers visit your website the higher would be the total band width.
If you
are using any link to social site the higher would be the band width required
for smooth performance of your website. Since business websites make lots of
link to social sites like facebook, linkedin, Twitter, the band width required
for transfer of files should be good enough for your website to perform the
basic function.
Hosting
companies initially offer a low priced package to attract the customer. Later
up gradation of the plan costs a lot to the client. Especially business
websites need to have a good band width for better performance. Band width of
5Gb would be fare enough for proper functioning and also need for up gradation
of plan would be very rare.
Linux or Windows
Choosing
the right platform is must for each hosting plan. Linux hosting plans are more
preferred over windows hosting plans as due to better comparability of linux
platform with other software and technologies.
It also
depends upon personal preference to choose windows or Linux hosting plan.
Choose a windows hosting plan that supports IIS. .net and font page extension.
Whereas for Linux you will find simple process with complete support for MySQL,PHP and other operate systems.
In my
point Linux hosting is more stable when it comes to operation performance of
the website.
Database, Advanced Scripting and .htaccess
Support
If you
have decided to choose a hosting plan the check for its database and scripting
support. This is more important for dynamic websites especially e-commerce
websites.
Look for
CMS such as word press if you wish to update the website of your own. This is
required when you need to store some database like catalogue, Zencart, Magento
etc. Advanced scripting and .htaccess if you have not discussed the hosting
plan with you developer. Changing hosting plan for database would be very
costly as it give hosting company an advantage to charge more for such data
storage options.
Sub Domains
Hosting
package with sub domains is another advantage. It allows you to customize your
website URL address to point specific areas of site like for E-commerce :
billing, catalogs, customer invoice etc.
An
example would be billing.xyz.com, catalog.xyz.co.in
Mail Boxes, Email Forwarding & Auto
Responders
Mail
forwarding, email backups, auto responders are important aspect of your hosting
plan. Plan for a mail on Gmail, Hotmail,
Yahoo and add mail forwarded to safeguard your mails.
Mail boxes
store your mails in the unique email address. Email forwarded will push your
mails to these mail boxes.
Most
hosting plans have a limit on one or all three of these features depending on
the price of the plan.
Support
Check the
support you get from your hosting company. Some companies take lot of time is
resolving small technical problems creating problems for your. 24hrs time is
sufficient enough for your to get response from the company. Also check for technical backup provided by
hosting company as it will help you understand your operation aspect of hosting
plans.
