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« on: April 19, 2010, 04:00:11 AM »

Hello Friends

Before select any web hosting companies, I would like share important factors which should be consider.

*Reliability and Up Time-Trustworthiness and Uptime:More Uptime amounts to more user-friendliness. So see the amount of Uptime that the web host promises for the website. Some may give you an Uptime of around 99.5%!
*Pricing-Cost:The web host must demand an affordable cost and give you easy methods of payments. Check for all extra prices, setting up costs.
*Bandwidth- Correct Bandwidth:Bandwidth is a very important component is increasing or depleting the trade developments.
*Disk Storage Space:Storage is a major consideration where development matters. Many web hosts will give you space of 20 to 50 MB and many will give 100 MB space, at around the same expenses.
*Server Speed-Velocity of the Server:Look into the server velocity before you choose a web host.
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 12:18:52 PM »

99.5% uptime is quite bad. It means about 4 hours of downtime per month. Uptime guarantees are not uptime promises. Once you read the TOS, you find out they're mere promises to issue a refund (most likely partial) if the uptime goes under a certain level during a month.

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Many web hosts will give you space of 20 to 50 MB and many will give 100 MB space, at around the same expenses.

Most hosts these days give a couple of GBs of space in their smallest, cheapest package.
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« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2011, 08:07:23 PM »

The most important tool is Money back guarantee. This should be a must chosen aspect when looking for a host because you can test a host fully with it.
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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2011, 03:04:55 AM »

The money back guarantee, like any other guarantee, is only worth something when the host has a history of upholding it, or when you have the means to otherwise enforce it.

Depending on the provider's location, there may be customer protection institutions that can coerce the host into doing what it has promised. Also, when paying with a credit card, one can ultimately do a chargeback by contacting his/her bank.

Then there's the option of a host located in the neighborhood, if you choose one of those, whom you can visit and "persuade" to refund you right then and there. Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2011, 05:05:03 AM »

I do not mean disrespect but statements and terms like
"Reliability and Up Time-Trustworthiness and Uptime: More Uptime amounts to more user-friendliness", "The web host must demand an affordable cost", "Bandwidth is a very important component is increasing or depleting the trade developments", "Storage is a major consideration where development matters"
are either nonexistent or phony.

The uptime has nothing to do with user-frindliness. Statement like "The web host must demand an affordable cost" is non-sense.

I think that this thread was created by the member solely to see his signature displayed within the forum. I would even bet that anyone would find exactly the same copy/paste post in other forums.

To stay on the topic I should say that people choose hosting providers by their reputation. The more popular name the web host has the more customers it gets without even being asked questions about uptime, network, infrastructure or support.
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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 08:01:36 AM »

When selecting cheap website hosting, be sure that the web host provider is trustworthy. Try to ask around people about their perceptions on the web host company. What they can say about it?
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« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2011, 01:41:58 AM »

There are many web hosts available in the market. Read customer hosting reviews before making any final order.
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« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2011, 10:15:37 AM »

Those tips are nice and can be used to be successful in the IT industry.
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« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2011, 08:04:55 AM »

I suppose that it will be reasonable to begin with and maintain a clear and written understanding of all services and all charges for them. If questions still remain or some terms are unclear it is strongly advised that you ask for clarification before signing up for anything.
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2011, 06:04:03 AM »

These are the key points on selecting a reliable hosting company and one must keep in mind before proceeding with any hosting company, so then you will be able to get reliable hosting company, also read reviews . they will also give you a broad idea on how this hosting company is going with the clients.
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