Hosting
Next you need a place for your website to live. Again, if it is a personal web site and you don't expect too many visitors or the site is not too large you can put it in the space provided to you by your ISP. Eash ISP has limits on the size of the web site and/or the number of visits per month to the website. You cannot use your own Domain Name on the web space provided by you ISP. This means you have to use space provided by a hosting company.
There are a great many hosting companies offering their services. Like all businesses there are good ones and not-so-good ones. Important things to look for when selecting a hosting company are:
- Cost: Hosting companies have a number of different plans. Make sure you select one that meets your needs. Does it offer enough disk space? Does it allow enough visits/month that you think you might receive? Does it offer enough e-mail addresses? does it include the ability to run scrips? And so on.
You should expect to pay about $4.00 per month and up for hosting services.
- Customer service: Do they have phone service, e-mail, or both. What hours per day or days per week is service available?
- Security: Do they provide backups to your site daily? Weekly? Is there standby power in event of a power failure? Are their facilities secure?
- Speed: How is the hosting company attached to the Internet. Faster connections or more connections helps guarantee that your site visitors will have speedier downloads.
- Privacy: Does the hosting company guarantee to never sell any of their customer data to 3rd parties for any reason?
We here at Virga Technologies and many of our customers use the services of eHosting.ca.
We find them to be very price competitive, reliable and have first-rate customer support. Their web site can be linked to here.
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