You have designed a good web site which represents your business
well. Now what? The next step would be to get it a space on the
Internet. How do you get your web site on the Internet? The
process of getting your web site on the Internet and one of the
most important aspects of starting a home based business is
called "web hosting". There are five very important aspects of
web hosting which you should look into when you decide the web
host for your web site. The aspects that will be mostly
affecting your starting a home based business are described
below:
1. Check the disk space offered: When starting a home based
business, you will need adequate disk space to run your website.
What you should seek is about 20 Mb maximum. You may get offers
for much more, but while more will not harm you - you will not
need it either so you should not bother too much if you get
more. 2. Check the bandwidth: Your starting a home based
business will be dependent on the traffic you will be able to
generate. Much as you will compare people visiting a shop to see
the wares the shop sells. And your capacity for accepting many
visitors is directly dependent upon the bandwidth the web host
provides you. What you need while starting a home based business
is about 500 Mb to 1 Gb. Anything less and you will not be able
to support sufficient traffic for your business - making you
loose on business and popularity. 3. Check the server uptime:
For any business to stay successful, it needs to be accessible.
Much like having your shop open round the clock, server uptime
will decide how long your website will be available for surfers.
If your website does not open when a surfer checks it out, they
will definitely move on to another site - and hence you loose
precious traffic. This can kill you when starting a home based
business. You should ensure that your web host offers you a 99.8
per cent server though some web hosts offer between 99.5 - 99.8
per cent. Anything less than 99.5 percent is unacceptable. And
remember there is NO 100 per cent server uptime - if you are
assured this, reject the web host as they are not honest. 4.
Check the available technical support to your website: It is
extremely important not only to have a good technical support,
but also a very prompt one. There will be many times during the
starting a home based business when you experience technical
problems. If these are not tackled and solved immediately, your
website will be history. Customers do not have time with
problematic websites - they will not wait for you, but move on
and you will loose precious leads and business. Technical
support should not only be prompt, it should work round the
clock, round the year. 5. Check a price around: Nowadays you can
get web hosting done for a very reasonable price, and it is good
to find a good bargain. However, a good bargain is not "cheap".
Calculate briefly how much would it cost to have a good server
(without interruptions), and you should aim at around that much.
If you settle for too cheap, you are more likely to get inferior
services. Too low is not good news when starting a home based
business, or any other business for that matter. It shows
cutting of corners somewhere, which is not good.
Keep these points in mind when fishing for a good web host and
you will be able to choose better.
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