Shared Hosting Plan
Ok, so now that I have discussed our dilemma with our current reseller plan, it has brought up several questions about individual shared hosting plans. So, here are the things that are important to look for:
1. Email accounts and pop3 availability. How many accounts? At least 10 for most small businesses. Pop3 is for using programs like Outlook or Thunderbird.
2. Registration of domain name. Will they include this in the price of hosting? If so, do they renew it automatically for you? Can you purchase multiple years?
3. Spam filters for your email.
4. Anti-virus for your email and for your hosting.
5. Amount of space. 500 Mb is standard these days. Can you buy additional if you grow out of it?
6. Amount of traffic. 5GB of transfer is adequate for most businesses. What is the price of additional traffic should you need it.
7. Databases. 3 MySQL or SQL databases is minimum for most websites with any interactivity these days.
I hope this list helps to make your decision easier. Let us know if we can help find a good fit for your small business.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Good points, however I have one advice. Never go for a free domain, most often there is a term attached to the free domain and if you don’t stay with the hosting company for the specified term, you loose the domain!
December 6th, 2007 at 6:23 am
Thats nice hosting plan, I think they have covered all main and common things.