Basic Website Marketing

Host Considerations

There are many web hosts available and they are not all equal. Some are very good at handling the basics while others are better at e-commerce or high-tech solutions. Some are free (typically limited in what you can do) and some are not. You will need to check into their contract to see what they provide, what they don't provide, what they allow you to do and what they don't.

Can they handle your current needs? Can they handle your anticipated traffic? Will they overlay your site with another window or add HTML that advertises their site and interferes with your site presentation? What about your future needs? What is their customer service like? Are their customers happy?

Just because a firm has few customers does not mean they are not qualified to host your site.

Make sure your host provides you with copies of the web traffic log or will do traffic log analysis for you.

Do your research and make your plan.