What are some things you should consider when choosing a web hosting? Criteria for choosing a web host for free and commercial web hosting solution that is slightly different even though they overlap.Choosing a Web Host Free
1. Advertising
free web hosting to impose most of the ads on our blog. This is done to cover the cost of providing free blog space and related services. Some hosts ask to put a banner on your pages, others display a window which appears on every page of your blog, while others impose an advertising frame. There is really no hard and fast rule preferred: some people hate pop-up window, other webmasters dislike banner goods must install the code on their pages, and not many people who want to open our website if a problem occurs when someone submit your site to the search engines. Whichever method is used, make sure that you feel comfortable with this method.
Note that free web hosts with no advertising, is not always a good news. Without proper facilities, many of them close to an alarming frequency.
2.Jumlah webspace
Is there enough space? If imagining will expand your site eventually, we might want to meet the needs of future development. Most web hosting gives less than 5MB of web space. Space requirements will vary, depending on how many images in a page, whether you need sound files, video clips, etc.
FTP 3.Akses
Some free hosting providers only allow to design pages with online builder mereka.Memang, is useful for beginners, but it means we do not have the option to expand later, when we become experienced and their online page builder does not have the facilities we need? such as FTP access, or at least, the ability to upload your pages via email or browser. Personally, I feel FTP access is mandatory, except the most trivial site.
4.File limitations of the type and size
Be careful for this. Some free hosts impose a maximum size of each file you upload (on average below 500KB). Other sites restrict the file types that you can upload to HTML and / GIF JPG file.
5.Kehandalan and access speed
It is very important. A site that frequently down will lose a lot of visitors. If someone finds your site on search engines, and he tried to access it but find that our site down, they will berpalimg to other sites. slow access too frustrating to pengunjung.Bagaimana to know if a host is reliable or fast? If we can not get feedback from anyone, one way is to try it for yourself over a certain period, both during peak hours and non-peak hours. After all, it is free, so you can always experiment with it.
6.Perl and PHP
It is not very important today for free web hosts, because there are so many free scripts available that like, wordpress, joomla, phpBB, mailing lists, etc..
But if you want to do it alone, with a minimum of banner advertising the free service provider, we need access to PHP or Perl. Note that it is not enough to know that they provide access to PHP or Perl: You need to know what type of script you are running or not: most do not for a PHP script, must be learned if a web host we also possible to use the mail () function? For Perl script, does have access to sendmail or its workalike,?7.Penjatahan Bandwidth
Nowadays, many free web hosts impose limits on the amount of traffic using the site counts per day and per month. This means that if the pages (and graphic images) on our site is loaded by visitors beyond a certain number of times per day (or per month), the web host will disable your web site (or perhaps send the bill). It's hard to recommend a minimum amount of bandwidth we need, because it depends on how we design the site, target audience, and the number of our visitors come. In general, 100MB traffic per month is too little, 1-3GB traffic per month is usually enough for a simple site that had just stood.
So how about the criteria to choose if you want to rent a commercial webhosting webhosting? ... ..Choosing a Commercial Web Host
1.Kehandalan and access speed
Not just a web host fast and reliable, but must guarantee a minimum uptime of 99% nya.Uptime. In fact, even 99% is actually too low, which should be 99.5% or more tinggi.web hosting must provide a guarantee (eg prorated refund or discount) if the server falls below that figure. Note that the guarantee is often difficult for the to-host usually requires all sorts of documentation. However, without that guarantee, the web host will lose confidence that the company's server running all the time.
2.Data Transfer (Traffic / Bandwidth)
Data transfer (sometimes loosely referred to as "traffic" or "bandwidth") is the number of bytes transferred from our site to visitors when they browse our site.
Do not believe all commercial web host that advertises "unlimited bandwidth". Web hosts have to pay for bandwidth, and if you consume too much, they will not silently bear the costs of us. Many sites use high bandwidth suddenly receive exhorbitant bill for having "exceeded" the limits "unlimited bandwidth". Always find out about the details on how much traffic the package allows. I personally always stay away from any host that advertises "unlimited transfer". Usually you will find that they redefine "unlimited" limited in several ways.
In addition, we must always check the bandwidth provided is real, do not be too influenced by the promises of bandwidth in a number of very besar.Kemungkinannya is that our website will never be able to use that number because it will hit other limits, namely resource limits.
To give a rough idea of the typical traffic requirements of a website, most new sites that do not use the installer script like wordpress uses less than 3 GB of bandwidth per month. traffic requirements will grow from time to time, when our site becomes more popular (and well-linked), so we will need to also check their policy for overages: is there any published cost per GB of bandwidth? What are the costs made in accordance with the actual usage or you are expected to pre-pay for potential excess bandwidth usage? Better not to go for hosts that expect you to prepay overages, because it is very difficult to predict our site will exceed the bandwidth or not.3.Disk space
For the same reason with the bandwidth, watch also for their "Unlimited Disc Space". Most sites need less than 500 MB of web space, so if the host offered a tempting you with Unlimited Disc Space, they already know that we are not likely to use that space, so do not let the space Unlimited Disc Space is too big a factor in consideration when comparing with Other web hosts. Hosting companies also know that, and that is why they feel free to offer you that as a means of tempting you to host there.
Technical 4.Dukungan
Is technical support function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (often abbreviated 24 / 7), all year around? Note that I will not accept a host which does not have staff working on weekends or holidays. You'll be surprised at how often things went wrong. Incidentally, just because a host advertises that it has a 24 / 7 support does not necessarily mean that it really has the kind of support. Test them by emailing at midnight and on Saturday nights, Sunday mornings, etc. Check out how long they take to respond. In addition, response speed, check to see if they are technically competent. You will not want to sign up for a host that is run by a group of salesmen who only know how to sell and can not fix the problem.5.FTP, PHP, Perl, SSI,. Htaccess, telnet, SSH, MySQL, crontab
If you pay for a site, you really should make sure you have all this.
Note that some commercial hosts do not allow you to install PHP or Perl script ("What is PHP and Perl?") Without their consent. It is not desirable because it means that you have to wait for them before you can apply the feature on your site. ". Htaccess "is needed if you do things like customize your error pages (pages that display when, say, a user request for a page that does not exist on your site) or to protect your site in various ways (for example to prevent bandwidth theft and hotlinking, etc.).
Telnet or SSH access is useful for certain things, including the testing of certain scripts (programs), maintaining a database, MySQL etc. ("What is MySQL?") Is required if you want to run a blog or content management system. Cron is a scheduler type program that allows you to run programs at specific times of day (eg, once a day). Check to see if this facility is provided.
6.SSL (secure server),
If you plan on doing business through your website, you may want to look out to see whether the host provides these facilities. These facilities typically involve a higher price package or additional cost. The main thing is to check whether all available before you commit to the host. You will definitely need SSL if you want to collect credit card payments on your site.
7.Email, Autoresponders, POP3, Mail Forwarding
If you have your own site, you may want to have an email address on your own domain, like yanto@ini-apa.com, Do allows you to have a catch-all email account that causes an email address at your domain can be directed to you? Can you specify your email address to automatically reply to the sender with a preset message (called an autoresponder)? Can you take your mail with your email software? Can be automatically forwarded to your current email address?8.Control Panel
Used for installation scripts and others such as creating email accounts. I will not go to the host where I have to contact their technical support each time I want to change password or add / delete email accounts.
9.Multiple Domain Hosting and Subdomains
For those who are thinking of selling web space or having multiple domains or subdomains hosted in your account, see whether they provide this.
10.Server
Is the type of operating system and server is very important?
In general, if you want to use things like writing / using the ASP program, you have no choice but to look for the Windows server.
If my preference to sign up to use the windows account, it is often cheaper more stable than a feature-laden Unix systems such as the Apache server. In fact, if dynamically generated pages can access databases (etc) is what you want, you can always use more portable (and popular) PHP instead of tying themselves to the ASP. Another reason for choosing a web host based on Unix (including web hosts using systems like Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.) using the Apache web server is that the server allows you to configure many of the amenities you typically need on your site (error pages , protect your images, blocking email harvesters, blocking IP addresses, etc.) without having to ask your web host to implement them.
11.Harga
I was actually hesitant to list this, but I think it was worth it. However, I would remind that the price is always the main factor, you should be aware that you often get what you pay for, although it is not necessarily true that the most expensive hosts are the terbaik.Jangan never tempted by cheap prices, I myself was fooled by selecting cheap webhosting Indonitahost.com product of the price cheapness learned fantastik.Selalu access speed, uptime, and when confused as key guidelines to see if there are web hosting services online from 24 hours nonstop.
12.Bulanan / Quarterly / Annual Payment Plans
Most web hosts allow you to choose the annual payment plan that provides a cheaper rate than if you pay monthly. while my personal preference is to pay monthly with all new web hosts until I'm sure of reliability and honesty. Paying monthly allows me to switch web hosts quickly when I discovered that the current host does not meet my requirements: this way, I am not tied to a bad web host because I had paid in advance for one full year. I do this even if the new web host guarantees that they will restore the balance if I'm not satisfied, because at that point I signed up, I have no guarantee that they will honor their guarantees. Later (usually after months or even more than one year), when I was satisfied with the host, I often change payment plans to the annual plan discount.
13.Reseller?
Not all hosting companies own or lease their own web servers. Some of them are actually resellers for some other hosting companies. The disadvantage of using a reseller is the possibility that you are dealing with people who do not know much about the systems they sell and that takes longer to help you (they must send your request technical support for the actual hosting company for it to be followed). However, it also depends on both the reseller and the underlying hosting company. Thus it would be unwise to rule out all resellers, there are few reliable and fast food is actually quite good and cheap. In fact, a number of resellers sell the same packages cheaper than their original hosting company. If you find that a particular company is a reseller, you will need to investigate both the reseller and the real hosting company.14.Internasional
If you do not live in USA, you have the option of hosting your site with some local operators. The advantage here is the ease of dealing with them (they are after all easily accessible by phone or visit), your familiarity with local laws and easy way to have the laws required. This should be your choice if your target audience is local (eg a local fast food delivery services). On the other hand, hosting in the USA has the advantage of faster access to what is probably the largest number of overseas visitors you (especially if you have an English-speaking audiences.) You also have a large number of hosting companies to choose from, and as a result, the price is cheaper too.
Do not wait until the old, immediately make your own website.
1. Advertising
free web hosting to impose most of the ads on our blog. This is done to cover the cost of providing free blog space and related services. Some hosts ask to put a banner on your pages, others display a window which appears on every page of your blog, while others impose an advertising frame. There is really no hard and fast rule preferred: some people hate pop-up window, other webmasters dislike banner goods must install the code on their pages, and not many people who want to open our website if a problem occurs when someone submit your site to the search engines. Whichever method is used, make sure that you feel comfortable with this method.
Note that free web hosts with no advertising, is not always a good news. Without proper facilities, many of them close to an alarming frequency.
2.Jumlah webspace
Is there enough space? If imagining will expand your site eventually, we might want to meet the needs of future development. Most web hosting gives less than 5MB of web space. Space requirements will vary, depending on how many images in a page, whether you need sound files, video clips, etc.
FTP 3.Akses
Some free hosting providers only allow to design pages with online builder mereka.Memang, is useful for beginners, but it means we do not have the option to expand later, when we become experienced and their online page builder does not have the facilities we need? such as FTP access, or at least, the ability to upload your pages via email or browser. Personally, I feel FTP access is mandatory, except the most trivial site.
4.File limitations of the type and size
Be careful for this. Some free hosts impose a maximum size of each file you upload (on average below 500KB). Other sites restrict the file types that you can upload to HTML and / GIF JPG file.
5.Kehandalan and access speed
It is very important. A site that frequently down will lose a lot of visitors. If someone finds your site on search engines, and he tried to access it but find that our site down, they will berpalimg to other sites. slow access too frustrating to pengunjung.Bagaimana to know if a host is reliable or fast? If we can not get feedback from anyone, one way is to try it for yourself over a certain period, both during peak hours and non-peak hours. After all, it is free, so you can always experiment with it.
6.Perl and PHP
It is not very important today for free web hosts, because there are so many free scripts available that like, wordpress, joomla, phpBB, mailing lists, etc..
But if you want to do it alone, with a minimum of banner advertising the free service provider, we need access to PHP or Perl. Note that it is not enough to know that they provide access to PHP or Perl: You need to know what type of script you are running or not: most do not for a PHP script, must be learned if a web host we also possible to use the mail () function? For Perl script, does have access to sendmail or its workalike,?7.Penjatahan Bandwidth
Nowadays, many free web hosts impose limits on the amount of traffic using the site counts per day and per month. This means that if the pages (and graphic images) on our site is loaded by visitors beyond a certain number of times per day (or per month), the web host will disable your web site (or perhaps send the bill). It's hard to recommend a minimum amount of bandwidth we need, because it depends on how we design the site, target audience, and the number of our visitors come. In general, 100MB traffic per month is too little, 1-3GB traffic per month is usually enough for a simple site that had just stood.
So how about the criteria to choose if you want to rent a commercial webhosting webhosting? ... ..Choosing a Commercial Web Host
1.Kehandalan and access speed
Not just a web host fast and reliable, but must guarantee a minimum uptime of 99% nya.Uptime. In fact, even 99% is actually too low, which should be 99.5% or more tinggi.web hosting must provide a guarantee (eg prorated refund or discount) if the server falls below that figure. Note that the guarantee is often difficult for the to-host usually requires all sorts of documentation. However, without that guarantee, the web host will lose confidence that the company's server running all the time.
2.Data Transfer (Traffic / Bandwidth)
Data transfer (sometimes loosely referred to as "traffic" or "bandwidth") is the number of bytes transferred from our site to visitors when they browse our site.
Do not believe all commercial web host that advertises "unlimited bandwidth". Web hosts have to pay for bandwidth, and if you consume too much, they will not silently bear the costs of us. Many sites use high bandwidth suddenly receive exhorbitant bill for having "exceeded" the limits "unlimited bandwidth". Always find out about the details on how much traffic the package allows. I personally always stay away from any host that advertises "unlimited transfer". Usually you will find that they redefine "unlimited" limited in several ways.
In addition, we must always check the bandwidth provided is real, do not be too influenced by the promises of bandwidth in a number of very besar.Kemungkinannya is that our website will never be able to use that number because it will hit other limits, namely resource limits.
To give a rough idea of the typical traffic requirements of a website, most new sites that do not use the installer script like wordpress uses less than 3 GB of bandwidth per month. traffic requirements will grow from time to time, when our site becomes more popular (and well-linked), so we will need to also check their policy for overages: is there any published cost per GB of bandwidth? What are the costs made in accordance with the actual usage or you are expected to pre-pay for potential excess bandwidth usage? Better not to go for hosts that expect you to prepay overages, because it is very difficult to predict our site will exceed the bandwidth or not.3.Disk space
For the same reason with the bandwidth, watch also for their "Unlimited Disc Space". Most sites need less than 500 MB of web space, so if the host offered a tempting you with Unlimited Disc Space, they already know that we are not likely to use that space, so do not let the space Unlimited Disc Space is too big a factor in consideration when comparing with Other web hosts. Hosting companies also know that, and that is why they feel free to offer you that as a means of tempting you to host there.
Technical 4.Dukungan
Is technical support function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (often abbreviated 24 / 7), all year around? Note that I will not accept a host which does not have staff working on weekends or holidays. You'll be surprised at how often things went wrong. Incidentally, just because a host advertises that it has a 24 / 7 support does not necessarily mean that it really has the kind of support. Test them by emailing at midnight and on Saturday nights, Sunday mornings, etc. Check out how long they take to respond. In addition, response speed, check to see if they are technically competent. You will not want to sign up for a host that is run by a group of salesmen who only know how to sell and can not fix the problem.5.FTP, PHP, Perl, SSI,. Htaccess, telnet, SSH, MySQL, crontab
If you pay for a site, you really should make sure you have all this.
Note that some commercial hosts do not allow you to install PHP or Perl script ("What is PHP and Perl?") Without their consent. It is not desirable because it means that you have to wait for them before you can apply the feature on your site. ". Htaccess "is needed if you do things like customize your error pages (pages that display when, say, a user request for a page that does not exist on your site) or to protect your site in various ways (for example to prevent bandwidth theft and hotlinking, etc.).
Telnet or SSH access is useful for certain things, including the testing of certain scripts (programs), maintaining a database, MySQL etc. ("What is MySQL?") Is required if you want to run a blog or content management system. Cron is a scheduler type program that allows you to run programs at specific times of day (eg, once a day). Check to see if this facility is provided.
6.SSL (secure server),
If you plan on doing business through your website, you may want to look out to see whether the host provides these facilities. These facilities typically involve a higher price package or additional cost. The main thing is to check whether all available before you commit to the host. You will definitely need SSL if you want to collect credit card payments on your site.
7.Email, Autoresponders, POP3, Mail Forwarding
If you have your own site, you may want to have an email address on your own domain, like yanto@ini-apa.com, Do allows you to have a catch-all email account that causes an email address at your domain can be directed to you? Can you specify your email address to automatically reply to the sender with a preset message (called an autoresponder)? Can you take your mail with your email software? Can be automatically forwarded to your current email address?8.Control Panel
Used for installation scripts and others such as creating email accounts. I will not go to the host where I have to contact their technical support each time I want to change password or add / delete email accounts.
9.Multiple Domain Hosting and Subdomains
For those who are thinking of selling web space or having multiple domains or subdomains hosted in your account, see whether they provide this.
10.Server
Is the type of operating system and server is very important?
In general, if you want to use things like writing / using the ASP program, you have no choice but to look for the Windows server.
If my preference to sign up to use the windows account, it is often cheaper more stable than a feature-laden Unix systems such as the Apache server. In fact, if dynamically generated pages can access databases (etc) is what you want, you can always use more portable (and popular) PHP instead of tying themselves to the ASP. Another reason for choosing a web host based on Unix (including web hosts using systems like Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.) using the Apache web server is that the server allows you to configure many of the amenities you typically need on your site (error pages , protect your images, blocking email harvesters, blocking IP addresses, etc.) without having to ask your web host to implement them.
11.Harga
I was actually hesitant to list this, but I think it was worth it. However, I would remind that the price is always the main factor, you should be aware that you often get what you pay for, although it is not necessarily true that the most expensive hosts are the terbaik.Jangan never tempted by cheap prices, I myself was fooled by selecting cheap webhosting Indonitahost.com product of the price cheapness learned fantastik.Selalu access speed, uptime, and when confused as key guidelines to see if there are web hosting services online from 24 hours nonstop.
12.Bulanan / Quarterly / Annual Payment Plans
Most web hosts allow you to choose the annual payment plan that provides a cheaper rate than if you pay monthly. while my personal preference is to pay monthly with all new web hosts until I'm sure of reliability and honesty. Paying monthly allows me to switch web hosts quickly when I discovered that the current host does not meet my requirements: this way, I am not tied to a bad web host because I had paid in advance for one full year. I do this even if the new web host guarantees that they will restore the balance if I'm not satisfied, because at that point I signed up, I have no guarantee that they will honor their guarantees. Later (usually after months or even more than one year), when I was satisfied with the host, I often change payment plans to the annual plan discount.
13.Reseller?
Not all hosting companies own or lease their own web servers. Some of them are actually resellers for some other hosting companies. The disadvantage of using a reseller is the possibility that you are dealing with people who do not know much about the systems they sell and that takes longer to help you (they must send your request technical support for the actual hosting company for it to be followed). However, it also depends on both the reseller and the underlying hosting company. Thus it would be unwise to rule out all resellers, there are few reliable and fast food is actually quite good and cheap. In fact, a number of resellers sell the same packages cheaper than their original hosting company. If you find that a particular company is a reseller, you will need to investigate both the reseller and the real hosting company.14.Internasional
If you do not live in USA, you have the option of hosting your site with some local operators. The advantage here is the ease of dealing with them (they are after all easily accessible by phone or visit), your familiarity with local laws and easy way to have the laws required. This should be your choice if your target audience is local (eg a local fast food delivery services). On the other hand, hosting in the USA has the advantage of faster access to what is probably the largest number of overseas visitors you (especially if you have an English-speaking audiences.) You also have a large number of hosting companies to choose from, and as a result, the price is cheaper too.
Do not wait until the old, immediately make your own website.
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