Website/Web Marketing

How to choose your web host

A web host provider is a company who rents out web space and bandwidth to those who wish to publish a web site. The web host gives its customer an account, which can be used to upload the documents, scripts, codes etc.,

Once the website is developed we need to buy some web space from web host provider. The good news is that if you go through some process carefully and wisely, you can find an adequate host that will give you value for money, be reliable and efficient, and assist you with your questions and problems along the way.

Analyze your requirements

When choosing a web host it is very important that you first consider what your needs are. Corporate web server solutions, personal web sites, and small business e-commerce sites require very different web hosting solutions. A corporation would definitely want a dedicated web server, that is managed 24 hours a day 7 days a week, by a staff of highly trained administrators. Its not the case with all.

Web host types can be narrowed down into the following categories:

Shared hosting is the most popular type of web host on the market. If shared hosting does not give you enough bandwidth, storage, or the features that you require, a dedicated hosting solution may be the right solution for you. If extra storage is needed, simply order a new hard drive for your server. The only downside: you must know a great deal about server administration.

Web Host - Domain Information

A domain name defines the base address of your web site(s). Most often a web site's main page is located at the domain name and this is what people first see when they visit your site.

Choosing a Domain

This should be permanent and easy to remember. If possible it is better to use combination of English words for domain name following the domain extensions or type like .com, .net, .org etc.
An excellent web site to register your domain at is Go Daddy .

Web Host - Bandwidth

For a webmaster, bandwidth is the measurement of data that is sent from your web host's server down to the visitors computer. If you have a lot of visitors and they all download large files from you, then you will need a great amount of bandwidth.

How Much Bandwidth?

The main difference between the basic and expensive plan of any hosting provider is the difference in the amount of bandwidth per month. Below is an easy way to calculate the amount of bandwidth you will need for a month.

Example for a site with 1000 visits a day, 4 page views per visit, and a page size of 45KB (kilobyte):

Dedicated Bandwidth

Some hosting options, more common with dedicated server plans, come with a dedicated connection of some speed. Generally these dedicated lines vary from 256kb/s (kilobits per second) all the way up to 100Mb/s (megabits per second). These options are great for web sites with a steady stream of traffic, with very little need for burst bandwidth. If you have a dedicated line, as opposed to a certain amount of GB a month, your site will not be able to handle high bandwidth peaks.

Below is a table of how much bandwidth(in GB) you would be able to squeeze out of a dedicated line, in ideal conditions, over a one month period.