Choosing a Hosting Package

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Important factors to consider when choosing a hosting plan.

  • Intended Website Use
  • Projected Budget
  • Ability to Upgrade
  • Available Add-On Features

The most important factors in choosing a hosting package should be fixed on your website's intended use and price. Your hosting plan choice should be based on your website type, your website's expected website user traffic and your website demands from increasing your website's functionality. Match those factors with your budget.

A website for personal use has a different website capacity requirement (in terms of a smaller number of content pages and expected traffic requirements) than a website for business use (in terms of a large number of content pages, larger user traffic and increased website functionality, such as an eCommerce function set-up).

Your intended website's content size, expected traffic and the demands of your websites expected functionality will help in determining your hosting plan requirements and the hosting plan features required. Given your intended use, the price of the plan needs to fit within your projected budget.

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Upgrade Ability
Upgrading to larger capacity hosting plans that can grow with your website page content, increased user traffic and an increasing website functionality, with a seamless transition and without conflicts can become very important.

Your future website requirements may require an upgrade in hosting plans (the ability to change from a smaller capacity hosting plan to a larger capacity hosting plan), so consider your website's future needs. Obviously, having a successful website, that is a website that grows in web content, user traffic and increased website functionality will require the ability to upgrade from a smaller hosting plan to one that meets your website's future needs.

Hosting Package Add-On Features (Accessories)
Hosting Package Add-On Features can add to your website's functionality. Add-On Features can include, additional email accounts, additional disc space, additional data transfer bandwidth, SSL Certificates and dedicated IP addresses and are considered the minimum inventory.

Shared Hosting Option
Shared hosting is the most economical and cost effective type of any hosting plan choice. A shared hosting plan is a single user account with other users and their respective accounts that are hosted together, on one larger common server. Choosing a shared hosting plans with a cPanel website management control will make your website account management extremely easy. This type of hosting is best for smaller, personal or business websites.

Shared Hosting
Advantages:

  • Mostly affordable
  • Usually different disc space and data transfer options available
  • Little to no experience required to manage or maintain your hosting account
  • Pricing is based on resources allocated to each hosting account

Disadvantages:

  • Shared hosting plans generally has many users sharing a common server
  • Your website will share the same IP with all the other shared users
  • Shared hosting can sometimes suffer from intentional and unintentional resource abuse by other shared users

Choosing a Website Hosting Plan
Your Website Hosting choice requires a Plan:

  1. Determine your website's intended use, future goals and expected server disc space and data transfer resources.
  2. Plan for growth with enough space as your website content pages, user traffic and website functionality increases.
  3. Get good customer service with help (large knowledge base content) and a support ticket system.
  4. Require interactive cPanel access.
  5. Require email functionality with at least POP and IMAP Email Client support, email forwarding, auto-responders and email aliases abilities.
  6. Review the hosting plan for an inventory of Add-On Features.
  7. Prefer Linux servers as generally less expensive, more stable, more secure and able to support open source programs and applications (i.e. CMS, shopping carts, forums, blogs, etc.)

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