Small business web site hosting
To get picture of the strength of a website, you should think of it as a large filing cabinet that is easily accessible by a lot of people. The cabinet should be placed in such a way that it should allow all the visitors to get equal opportunity for access no matter how big the crowd gets.
Your website is exactly like this type of filing cabinet. The website
site should be hosted with a company that offers you the most services
at a competitive price. Some of the services that a website hosting
company offers include the following:
- Shared SSL secure server
- 128 Bit encryption
- CGI directory & script library
- Web-based account
- Control panel
- In-house data center
- ASP, PHP, Perl, Python
- PayPal eCommerce Integrated
- Server Side Includes (SSI)
- Access to raw log files
- FTP account access
- Virtual FTP server
- Password protected directories
The normal rate of web hosting companies lies between $24 and $100, depending on the package chosen. If you are having your site website developed, they will also upload your site or will help you to do so.
When you decide which web hosting company you want, you will have to choose a name that suits your business and also presents you uniquely on the internet. No website can have the same name as another. Once you have decided on the name, the web hosting company will then register the name with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Once you have registered the name, no one will be able to take it unless you decide to sell it.
Most hosting companies also offer you software that will develop your site if you want to do so yourself.
You should host your site with a reputable company that can deal with all unforeseen chances of errors. They should give you no less than a 99% uptime guarantee. Most ISP’s also act as web hosts. Having your web hosted by them will also give you the assurance that they will support your site 24 hours, seven days a week.
