| Web hosting has become such a huge business | | | | exceeds your requirements. You can always |
| nowadays, with multiple companies offering | | | | upgrade your packages later as the website |
| ridiculous prices on their hosting packages, that it | | | | grows. |
| has become extremely difficult to pick a winner | | | | Bandwidth |
| from a pool of several candidates. Almost all | | | | Once again, many web hosts advertise their |
| hosting companies offer multiple freebies and | | | | bandwidth offering as unlimited, but at the same |
| features with their web hosting packages. In | | | | time restrict your usage based on CPU and |
| addition, shared and virtual server hosting has | | | | memory cycles. For a personal website, 10 |
| become so incredibly cheap that anyone with a | | | | megabytes to 50 megabytes of bandwidth per |
| tight budget can still buy the hosting and keep | | | | month may suffice. A corporate website may |
| them for years. | | | | consume anywhere between 20 megabytes to |
| This article goes over the main features to look | | | | 100 gigabytes of bandwidth per month. |
| out for in any hosting packages to determine the | | | | As with the case of disk pace, it is best to |
| most appropriate solution for your business or | | | | choose a bandwidth package that slightly exceeds |
| personal needs. Some website projects can run | | | | your current demand and upgrade this feature as |
| efficiently on shared hosting which some websites | | | | needed in the future. |
| demand no less than a virtual private server. In | | | | Uptime |
| other occasions, the operating system | | | | The holy grail of hosting is uptime, and this is |
| requirements may differ. Linux is the most widely | | | | considered the main feature of any web hosting |
| used hosting platform, however, some specialized | | | | package. 99.9% uptime per month is considered |
| needs may only work on a windows server. | | | | the industry standard nowadays; anything below |
| Disk Space | | | | this percentage is unwelcome. However, majority |
| Some web hosting companies tend to advertise | | | | of companies falsely advertise their uptime |
| their plans as unlimited or unmetered. That, | | | | percentage, even if they do not succeed in |
| however, does not mean that you have | | | | meeting this promise. |
| petabytes upon petabytes of space at your | | | | Industry experts recommend reading reviews |
| disposal. Disk space usage goes together with | | | | about hosting companies on review sites, blogs |
| how much memory and processor cycles the | | | | and forums before signing up with any hosting |
| website scripts consume. It is always advisable to | | | | plans with any company. |
| go for a web hosting space that meets or slightly | | | | |