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Many people have experienced huge blows when making simple mistakes with their website hosting. People often view web hosting to be a trivial and minor thing, whilst actually website hosting is one of the most important aspects of your whole website. People have lost whole websites through easy to make mistakes, and this can potentially ruin your business, or at least put it out of action for a while.  Below are some of the most common mistakes people make with web hosting, and how you can avoid them.

First of all, ever heard the saying ” too good to be true” I am sure most of you reading will have done, and this phrase applies to website hosting. That’s not to say quality and affordable hosting is not available, but when you see for instance a years worth of web hosting for $2 walk away. Sure, once in a hundred times it would probably be as it says, but would you really want to risk your whole website just for saving $5 a month?

When you sign up for website hosting, be sure to specify the exact terms you require. This may not apply for small personal websites, but for large corporate websites, you will often write up some sort of document detailing the terms of your web hosting. If you decide mid way through the hosting you want extras which are not included in your current hosting plan, the hosting company may charge you a huge premium to get those extras, or they may just deny it altogether.

Check the hosting site out. If it looks shabby and unprofessional then move one, if a website can’t take the time to get their own website looking spic and span, chances are they won’t care too much about yours.

Just because a website has a lot of “good” testimonials, does not mean that the site is safe. IF you suspect something is up, ask the web hosting company to get the customers who left the feedback to get in touch with you directly. If the hosting company refuse, than be aware, things may not be as they seem.

There are more things to think about when taking out website hosting. Always double check your terms and conditions, and if in doubt get on the phone, speak to someone from the company, make sure you have an address and contact details in case something goes wrong. Remember, if it doesn’t feel right, walk away.

All websites require some form of website hosting. This allows your site to “have a home”, and using a website hosting provider is the only way you can make your site accessible to the millions of people worldwide. That being said however, you cannot pick just any website hosting. Unless you use reliable and good web hosting, your site will often become slow to Internet users, and will often crash and even permanently shut down if traffic volumes are too high.

There are a few main reasons why good reliable web hosting is needed. Firstly,  a good website hosting provider will give you daily backups, sometimes multiple times a day. This allows your site to be protected in case of accident or damage to your site. For instance, is your site gets hacked or crashed, a backup has been kept allowing you to promptly re up your site.

A good website hosting company should offer firewall protection, to hopefully eliminate the need for any backups to actually be used. A good firewall will keep hackers and malicious Internet software from damaging your site, and it acts as a sort of safeguard.

Spam filtering should also be a benefit of your web hosting. This has many benefits, but should limit the amount of Spam your website receives, directly as well as through any contact email addresses you have linked directly with the site.

A professional website hosting service will offer you 99.9 percent uptime. This means your site should be on line 99.9 percent of the time, and crashes and errors are extremely rare. A benefit of using a reliable web hosting company is that when things do go wrong, you can be sure that they will be fixed in a miniaml amount of time.

Reliable website hosting will also offer constant monitoring. This basically means that if the web hosting company start to see unnatural and unlawful behavior, they will alert you immediately and take all necessary precautions to ensure your site stays safe and on line.

These are just some of the reasons why it is vital to use reliable and well known web hosting companies. They may charge more money than a sub standard website hosting company, but the benefits are clear, and whilst they may only help in the long run, they could end up saving you a lot of money further down the line.

In this modern day and age, many people are creating websites for a variety of reasons. Some see it as a way to make money, some see it as a way to share their talent and others see it as a way of bringing people together who share similar interests and opinions. Whatever the reasons are for making a website, once it is designed and ready to go, you need to think about website hosting. Web hosting is where you site goes live on the Internet. Once you have sorted out your web hosting people from all across the world can access your website.

For people new to the Internet, web hosting can seem hard to get your head around. People ask why you need it? The easiest way to describe it, is if you were to go and build a cinema you would not just build it anywhere you would first need to find a place of land which you purchase then build the cinema upon that land. Similar with your website you cannot just place it anywhere, you have to find and purchase the piece of land.  It’s just lucky that web hosting doesn’t cost as much as real land does, and can actually be a lot cheaper than you would expect.

Once you have created your website you will next need to purchase a domain. This is an address where people can access your site. Imagine it as a phone number, you type the number into the computer and you are taken to the website.

Once you have a domain you next need to find a suitable hosting company. There are actually a few free website hosting companies that will host your site for free, but this comes with a cost. They will place their advertising on your page, as well as using their own companies domain name if not using your own.  Freewebs, Geocities and Angel fires are good examples of these.

If however you want a more professional approach and want your site hosted free of adverts, GoDaddy may be the place to go. Hosting millions of websites, GoDaddy has a worldwide reputation for good customer service, as well as outstanding hosting capabilities.  Pricing can start from around $15 for a whole year! Obviously if you want more features and more bandwidth you will have to pay more, but for a basic website you can get all you need from GoDaddy or a similar site.