| Web hosting businesses have been aggressively | | | | requirements.d. Relying solely on the web host for |
| dominating the Internet world in the recent years and | | | | backups - |
| increasing web-masters have reached out for web | | | | While trusting that your web host will provide the |
| hosting services for their businesses because of the | | | | necessary support is logical, but relying solely on |
| potential benefits that they would obtain by | | | | them to provide you with the backup support can be |
| leveraging the powerful features and functions of | | | | pretty risky at times, especially if your web host is |
| web hosting. | | | | not too reliable in the first place. Do yourself a great |
| Here are some of the key web-hosting mistakes | | | | favor by keeping your own backups consistently is a |
| commonly made by most web-masters along with | | | | wise step to start with. This is especially helpful as |
| ways to avoid them in the future:a. The low price | | | | you can easily put your site on a new host should |
| trap - | | | | your existing web hosting server went down and |
| Today over the Internet, one can easily find a whole | | | | would not be up for days, and even weeks!e. Split |
| bunch of outrageously low cost budgeted web | | | | out your investment of websites- |
| hosting plans. Have you ever wonder how they | | | | If you own multiple websites, it is wise to split them |
| make their living with such a low membership cost? If | | | | into several different accounts to be on different |
| low price is your key emphasize, then you may as | | | | servers so that if anyone of them is down, at least |
| well expect for a slow site performance with limited | | | | you still have sites which are connectable with active |
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| support. The advice is stay out from a low budgeted | | | | reseller - |
| web hosting plan.b. Lack of trust-worthy real | | | | Hosting with a reseller is not a bad thing, some good |
| customers feedbacks - | | | | ones render excellent service and support to their |
| All too often, most web hosting providers will share | | | | clients. However, there are inexperienced resellers out |
| and publicized their advantages and achievements to | | | | there who do not have the necessary knowledge in |
| their visitors while keeping the unpleasant side of | | | | server management and technical experience. This is |
| themselves well hidden back stage. Always | | | | happening frequently today because some of these |
| remember that not all testimonials posted at the web | | | | resellers are merely acting as the middlemen who are |
| hosting websites are reliable. Refers to those | | | | selling the web hosting services and web space on |
| testimonials shared by their existing and | | | | behalf of the original web host. |
| ex-customers and not by the web owners.c. Unclear | | | | If you are looking out for a reseller, make sure you |
| and mixed up requirements - | | | | get yourself with at least 5 years of experience in |
| With the dynamic changes of requirements to suit | | | | the reseller web hosting business with some years of |
| the ever changing needs of customer, there is a high | | | | relevant hosting experience, and also has been in |
| possibility that these requirements may get mixed up | | | | good contact with the server administrators |
| or being overlooked at. Issues of incompatibility will | | | | especially when there are technical issues or |
| arise when this happen. Also this will badly jeopardize | | | | environment defects which need to be attended to |
| the anticipated timeline which have been locked down | | | | urgently. |
| by the web-masters because of the miss | | | | |