| There is no denying that Cpanel is the current | | | | you to host an unlimited number of domains. |
| leading control panel in the web hosting industry. | | | | 4) Number of databases allowed. |
| Many hosting companies offer Cpanel hosting as | | | | For Cpanel hosting, you are likely to use MySQL |
| the preferred control panel. But before you sign | | | | databases. Most open source scripts use this |
| up, make sure you compare other hosting | | | | freely available database. It is rare for hosting |
| features. Here is a list of features that you may | | | | companies to limit the number of databases in |
| wish to compare. | | | | today's market. But make sure you double check! |
| 1) Hosting space. | | | | Some companies still place a limit to prevent |
| In a fiercely competitive market, many web | | | | server resources from being overloaded. |
| hosting companies start to join the "hosting | | | | 5) Number of files allowed. |
| space" war. Each attempts to offer more space | | | | It's certainly a dream come true. Webmasters |
| in order to beat its competitors. Today, many | | | | and Internet marketers can run as many |
| hosting companies are even offering unlimited | | | | websites as they like on a single hosting account. |
| hosting space. You are free to use the space as | | | | Although many features are unlimited, it's foolish |
| long as you don't abuse the server resources. | | | | to assume that server resources are unlimited as |
| 2) Bandwidth. | | | | well. Usually, in most shared server environments, |
| Bandwidth used to be expensive, and hosting | | | | the servers are severely overloaded due to |
| companies tend to limit bandwidth in order to | | | | hosting hundreds of sites at the same time. This |
| keep operational costs low. However, with the | | | | means thousands of visitors may be trying to |
| phenomenal growth of the Internet, hardware and | | | | connect to the server concurrently. This leads to |
| software costs have plummeted. This leads to | | | | slow loading. So how to overcome this problem? |
| reduced bandwidth costs. Today, most hosting | | | | Some hosting companies choose to manage |
| companies are able to offer unlimited bandwidth. | | | | resources by limiting the number of files in a single |
| So now you don't have to worry about your | | | | account. This number vary, depending on the |
| website being suspended due to bandwidth limit | | | | hosting company that you sign up with. It can be |
| exceeded. | | | | 50,000 files, or 100,000 files. Be sure to read the |
| 3) Number of domains. | | | | terms and conditions carefully before signing up. If |
| As you grow your online business, the number of | | | | you exceed this file limit, you may be asked to |
| websites also start to grow. If your intention is to | | | | remove some files. You have little to worry about |
| own a network of sites, you must make sure | | | | though. 50k files is a huge number. Most accounts |
| that your hosting account allows you to host | | | | won't even have 10k files. |
| multiple sites. In the past, most shared accounts | | | | Finally, make sure you sign up with a reputable |
| allow you to host between 5 to 10 sites. If you | | | | web host. A hosting company with a good |
| want to host more sites, you have to sign up for | | | | reputation tends to be more able to provide |
| a new account. Today, most hosting plans allow | | | | reliable hosting services. |