Saturday, March 22, 2008

Think thrice before you buy a web hosting

Currently Internet is the most popular means of communication and websites are the most popular way of advertising over the internet. So, everyone’s coming up with a website nowadays. The base for putting up a web site is web space which web hosting companies provide you for some cost on their web servers for hosting your site allowing anyone on the Internet to browse it. Some companies even provide you with a limited amount of free web space to host your site. But free web spaces most of the times come up with advertisements (banners and pop-ups) and don’t support server side programming. Overall free web hosting can never beat a paid hosting even in its best day.

So, what type of hosting should you choose even from among the paid hosting and where to get it from has always been a daunting task. My view is there’s nothing like a best web hosting or things like that. It all depends on your requirement, ability to spend and priorities. For a simple blogger like be shared web hosting may be enough but for big companies VPN or Virtual Dedicated Server or Managed Hosting might be a better choice. Whichever you choose, things like the CPU uptime, data backup, security, and price might be handy while making your decision.

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