There are different types of hosting accounts and you should choose the one that fits your requirements.

For example, if you plan to build a network of niche sites or blogs – you might need one type of account. If you have a huge online business with a big mailing list and many scripts working on the site/blog (it means these scripts will take a huge portion of server processor capabilities and load) – this is another type of the account. If you want to make extra money by reselling part of your hosting – this is one more type of the hosting account.

As you can see it all depends upon what you need.

But, to understand what account type you need to reach your goal, you should know the account types first.

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Your knowledge of these elements will not require getting any kind of special education or certification. No, just simple and down-to-earth language that explains hosting in a natural way.

The time that you invest into understanding these elements will make sure that you do not make the wrong choice of the hosting for your sites or blog.

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As always it is about a lot more details, and you need knowledge and experience to be able to make a wise choice of the web hosting.

We would like to offer you the shortcut to the knowledge and experience of other people, so that you do not come through the same mistakes.

If the hosting is down, no matter how huge is your current incoming traffic, no matter how great is your salescopy or price or marketing approach to the visitor – the site/blog is dead.

That is why it’s crucially important to understand how to find and choose quality webhosting so that you can focus on your business, instead of heating up the support call lines.

We will share our knowledge how to choose the right type of the hosting, but first let’s quickly cover the hosting basics, so that people who just start their Internet activity understand what we are talking about.

Web host services allow individuals and organizations to create their websites and blogs in the World Wide Web. The hosting companies connect their web servers to the internet.

Hosting companies have a ’server space’ in some physical center called ‘data center’ – it should be a 24/7 secure environment with HVAC temperature control, virus detection software, excellent backup, huge team of support and technical admins, etc.

Usually there is a typical choice between a free hosting with ftp and a paid web host service. If you want to have full freedom for your online business and do not want extra stuff like unnecessary advertisements (not yours, the ads that are sold by the hosting company) popping up and distracting visitors from the information and your products – then choose a paid web host service.

The hosting can come in the form of:

• Shared web hosting (you share a server space with someone else)
• Dedicated web hosting (your personal server space)
• Reseller web hosting (you can resell the server space like on behalf of the hosting company)

In technical terms there are two types of the platforms for hosting a website – Windows and Linux.

Ok, the techy basics are over, now let’s find out the secrets of choosing a quality and reliable web site hosting.

First of all, when choosing a hosting service you choose a hosting company. A reliable hosting company should be on the market for 5+ years. Of course, there can be a fresh company that just started and does a great job and gives lots of teasers like free hosting with ftp, but when you go to the hosting forums where users share their feedback, you will see that you can choose from the companies that have YEARS of excellent support and service quality vs new companies. Whom would you choose?

Only then start paying attention to the hosting rates offered by the hosting companies and choosing the most affordable hosting plans.

Why does the quality come over the price? Because the price can be very low, but it can be because of the hosting company to save money on staff (support and tech admins), and this means if your site gets down it can take you days or – the worst case scenario – weeks before the site is up and running again. With companies that have great feedback these issues are handled in hours. Now you see why the number of years on the market play huge importance for choosing a hosting service provider – if you see hundreds of unbiased people saying that tech support is really fast at hosting company XYZ, then this XYZ is really worth paying, and paying more.

Also make sure that your hosting company continuously improves security measures and any e-commerce transaction should be covered under SSL. This is also about making sure that the hosting company is properly protected by firewalls.

Ask a question whether your hosting company will host your website on Windows or Linux operating system. Your site might have some scripts (Internet marketing tools or SEO scripts or anything else) that need either Linux or Windows. Usually this will not be a problem to switch your account from Windows to Linux or from Linus to Windows, but it is always better to double check this issue.

As you can see – the rule of a thumb is to check whether the hosting company has great tech support. Don’t mix that up with sales support. Usually hosting companies have live chats on the site where a client who just plans to buy this hosting will get a supersonic-quick answer. But these people have nothing to do with the technical support, they are just there to close the sale. I have personally experienced with some companies terrifically quick answers in the live chats on the ’selling part’ or the site and nearly complete ignore on the tech support when the sites have been down for over 72 hours without any reply.

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