| u are planning to transfere your business online, or | | | | taken into account when choosing your hosting |
| even will start your business on the internet from | | | | provider is the number of websites that allow you to |
| scratch, the first thing you will face is: where you will | | | | host on a single account, some hosting companies |
| host your websites? and if you are new to this area | | | | allow only for one domain per account, some other |
| (web hosting), you will find yourself a bit confused | | | | companies will allow you to host an unlimited |
| about many webhosting terminology, so it'll be very | | | | websites per one account, meanning several aebsites |
| important to you to understand these terms before | | | | at the expense of one. |
| you take your decision. | | | | If you are serious about your business on the |
| Here, I will mention to the most important factors | | | | Internet then you must be aware of the fact that |
| you must take in consideration: | | | | you will sooner or later will need to launch more |
| 1. Bandwidth: (data transfer) is measured in gigabytes. | | | | websites to expand your business to high levels. |
| A gigabyte is one billion bytes. Each letter is one byte. | | | | Therefore it is important to take this point into |
| Images can take up a big amount of kilobytes | | | | consideration where you will remove the burden of |
| (thousands of bytes), and file downloads can be | | | | purchasing additional webhosting accounts to host the |
| several megabytes (millions of bytes) in size. You | | | | new websites in the future. |
| must logically think of how much bandwidth your | | | | 3. Control Panel: Before you buy a web hosting plan, |
| website will need. Unless your website has a lot of | | | | ask the hosting company show you a demo for the |
| downloads, it will be unlikely that you will need many | | | | control panel from which you will administrate your |
| gigabytes of transfer - 10 gigabytes should be very | | | | hosting account. |
| enough. Any more, and you will just be paying extra | | | | Control panel is the place where you can check your |
| for something to use. | | | | website visitor statistics, add or erase email accounts, |
| On that note though, you should be careful and | | | | host additional domains on your account, install scripts |
| make sure you always have some extra bandwidth - | | | | and make other nominal changes for your website. |
| many hosting providers charge $3.00 and more for | | | | Control panel should be easy to use with friendly |
| every extra gigabyte of bandwidth you use. That | | | | interface and you should take some time to |
| can add up very quickly | | | | understand what it is all about before purchasing your |
| 2. # Of hosted domains allowed: | | | | hosting plan. |
| One of the most important factors which must be | | | | |