It’s important to have reliable web hosting for your business or organisation’s domain name. There are so many options these days when it comes to hosting your web site. Who can you trust? There are thousands of companies offering web hosting…

It’s important not to go for the cheapest monthly rate, nor to go for the largest disk space or bandwidth usage.

What should you look at? Here are a few important components:

Shared or dedicated hosting?

Shared hosting is usually more affordable, however service quality will depend on which other sites are sharing with yours.

Network uptime guarantee

Anything less than 99% should be thoroughly reviewed.

Datacenter power sources

Make sure there is redundancy!

Support team size

The larger the support team, the more you will get.

Allowed monthly bandwidth

Make sure you are allowed enough bandwidth, and note the extra bandwidth charges.

Allowed disk space

A lot of disk space is good, don’t pay for too much space. Most business and personal web sites require less than 10MB.

Company’s experience

Make sure the company you choose has been around for some time. Be alert for brand new companies offering ‘too good to be true’ plans; they may end up being web hosting frauds.

My personal choice: iWeb Technologies