Choose A Good Web Hosting Service

The web hosting service you choose for your business is the most critical aspect as to whether your business thrives or dies!

First thing you'll need to start a business on the Internet is choosing a name for your website.

Then you'll need to find a reliable web hosting service to make the website live.

Choosing your web hosting service will be the most important decision you make for your business.

Life and Death Aspects Of Your Website

The reason I say this is, if the server your website resides on is down, more than up, your business might as well not even exist.

Not only will you lose revenue because of the loss of sales, if the search engine bots visit your website and cannot find your pages you may be dropped from their index.

This doesn't happen the first time, but after repeated tries to your site it could very well happen. So any free traffic that you may be receiving from the search engines up to this point will be gone.

All hosting accounts are not the same. You MUST find a web hosting service that has a GENUINE interest in your success.

Website Hosting Doesn't Have To Be Expensive

Running your website doesn't have to be expensive. Most reliable web hosting service hosts will offer you their services for $8-$20 per month.

If your looking for something cheaper than that, of course you can find it, but the service you receive may not be the best. You know the old saying: "you get what you pay for"...

Take A Test Drive for Evaluation

Customer service is critical, and I mean the #1 consideration for choosing a good web hosting service.

I recommend you take them for a test ride...

Send an email to their customer service department or go to their website and submit a contact us form. See the quality of the response you receive from each company. Take special note if each little request is handled in a cheerful manner or is the support dependent on additional fees.

Some things to remember when looking for a web hosting service:

1. Does the company offer educational tutorials on their website to assist you in growing your business?
2. Do you have access to software that allows you to build pages without knowing html?
3. What about a membership area that provides additional resources for learning to market your website? There is a learning curve for making a website profitable, so ebooks, videos, and audios make a great addition to the web hosting package.
4. Do they offer a Price Freeze Guarantee? This ensures that your hosting price will stay the same even if the web hosting prices go up in the future.
5. How long has the hosting company been in business? This is one of the greatest fears talked about on the web hosting forums, in that the web hosting service may go belly up and leaves you high and dry. (mind you with no warning) Beware! There are lot's of these around. Be sure to look for companies that have been in business for at least 2 or 3 years.