Thursday, November 25, 2010

Cost-Saving Tips For Website Hosting

By Antonio Stephens


Before you hire a service to host your website, it is important to spend some time looking at the various companies available so you can research the packages that they offer, the special features that can be added, and of course the different price levels charged for those packages so you can ensure you get a service that will fit your needs as well as your budget.

1. The first critical step is to conduct the most research possible. Peruse a wide array of online reviews of web hosting providers and their offerings in order to become familiar with the most dependable, yet cost-effective plans available.

2. Narrow your choices down and verify their reliability by finding out how many complaints have been made about these providers. Quickly eliminate any site that has in excess of five complaints in the past year, since those sites will not be of substantial reputation in the web hosting field.

3. Become part of an online discussion forum specializing in web hosting topics and advice. Such communities are a great resource for tips and guidance on all areas of web hosting. Discussion groups of this kind allow you to post web hosting questions to which you have thus far failed to find thorough answers.

Tip #4 - Don't forget to ask questions about customer service, tech support and the overall organization and structure of the company as well. Some of the lower-cost web hosts will have really poor tech support or customer service options, trading out standard response services in order to give even lower-cost packages. You really want to avoid a budget solution that doesn't have a strong customer service and tech support center to back it up, because these programs will also usually cut corners where it really counts, such as poor-quality servers that cause your website to load slowly or sometimes not at all.




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