If you are at all serious about making money on the web, you will almost certainly need multiple websites to be able house your web pages and blogs. This is an important consideration as it directly influences your costs and profit. Therefore, the ability for a Web Host to host multiple domains on one account is important.
Next is reliability, the benefits of multiple web hosting as above is completely screwed up if your host has a lot of down time! So check for reliability.
Then I guess ease of use comes next. You don't want to have to spend loads of time working your way through their obscure systems to get your websites online and working complete with an email system.
Before I go further, I strongly believe that you need to know that if you are in trouble that a good support system is in place 24/7. There is nothing worse than not being able to sort out a problem when you most need to! Does your chosen Host have a written guide of how to use the system and how to promote your website?
Adequate bandwidth to grow your business from the start. How many times do you see the so called "Gurus" stuffing up on a launch because they "ran out of bandwidth" because of extreme demand? Most of it isn't true and is just hype to get you to buy if you didn't go first time, by making you think that so many others wanted it therefore it must be good! Anyone worth his/her salt would arrange with their website host to increase bandwidth for a major launch. It can be done!
You want to look and see what "extras" they offer, some offer a web site search engine submission service, and others have free emails systems in their web-hosting plan. Some even offer free eBooks to sell and earn commission. Other web Hosts offer an affiliate package that means you can get your web hosting free if you sell an affordable web-hosting plan on their behalf. Get as much as you can for your money!
So to sum up you should at least check for :
- multiple domains
- reliability
- ease of use
- email system
- support system
- Adequate bandwidth
- "extras"
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