Things that you need to check before you select a web hosting partner

Cheap or FREE hosting?

I recommend not to go to Free hosting.

Why?

You will find below difficulties in there.

• No or less customer support.
• Many downtimes
• Some free hosting providers put their own adds in the website
• Some free hosting providers do not allow to put our own adds
• Programming flexibility is less

What is dedicated and shared hosting?

Dedicated - You will have full control over the dedicated computer .

Shared     - You will have limited web space and resourced shared with others.

What is the best?

As a beginner, you do not need dedicated hosting. It’s expensive than Shared hosting.

How do I compare/evaluate two shared hosting providers?

Price – Always do not go for cheap one. Price is only one factor.

            You can find starting from 1$/month.

Guaranteed UP time - This is a key thing to consider. This should be 99.9% or above.

Web space – At least you need 100Mb or more disk space.

Free tools – There are free tools that they provide.

Control panel – Most of providers have a demo version of control panel to check before buy.

Web stat – Even though you don’t think about this, this is the key to analyze visitors to maximize web traffic.

Applications – Web server and a database .I recommend apache and mysql .

Additional charges and limitations – Check bandwidth limit , add-on domain charges , adding sub domains etc.

Customer support – This should be 24hour. Prefer if they have online chat facility.

Do a simple research in the web.

What do you recommend?

I have been in this field in past few years, and I had very bad experiences about bas hosting providers.

Finally I found a good hosting provider that I use for more than one year. That is http://www.hostgater.com.