Web Hosting Questions to answer before you ask

The choice of hosting providers is one of the most critical and dangerous choices that you can do when you are jumping on the bandwagon Internet Marketing. If your site goes down or the support system is less than positive, your business will suffer and so will you.

Think about it:

Steps months of product development, including bonuses to entice customers to buy from you.

You test, test, test and research, research, research until your eyes cross.

We are looking for affiliates to help sell to a broader market and set methods of payment.

You pay and get a good autoresponder to facilitate the delivery of the product and the future of e-mail contact with the customer.

Design your website sales to attract customers and receive e-mail sign-up to your list ("... the money is really in the list!").

Finally, everything is perfect and you go looking for a good hosting service - here is where it can come crashing down on his head.

Before ever contacting a hosting service, there are questions you must answer in order to choose the right service for your purposes.

# 1 ... Need to know exactly what your site will be used to:

Personal pleasure ... family photos, contact with relatives, etc.

Hobbies ... collection, pets, gardening, cooking, genealogy, etc.

Discussion ... speak your mind on any topic, interact with members of a forum or blog

Informational ... business, medical, travel, ... like, etc.

Ecommerce ... business, sell your products online, eBay, etc.

Audio / Video ... can be about any topics you want

# 2 ... What software do you use to develop your web site? Some hosting companies are selective about the products of the software will accept.

# 3 ... How much support you want ... or are willing to pay?

24/7 phone or e-mail ... what?

The statistics on who visits your site and where they go when they visit
What website control panel that you need?

# 4 ... How big will your website be? How many pages? (Note: video and audio, have a greater amount of space of normal sales pages of text)

# 5 ... If you need support for databases, which one?

MySQL ... database world's most popular open source for its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use

Microsoft SQL Server ... a relational database management system (RDBMS), ideal for business systems for small, medium and large sizes, according to Microsoft

Microsoft Access ... a member of the Microsoft Office System 2007 and can be found on the hard drive

# 6 ... Will you need a scripting language? (Simple Web pages may not need scripts to create dynamic content) What?

ASP (Active Server Pages)

ASP.Net

CGI-Bin

ColdFusion

JSP (Java Server Pages)

Perl

When you have the answers to each question, according to your needs for your web site, you will be fully armed to select the best hosting you can afford ....