Introduction
Internet hosting reviews strategies
Distance is no barrier on the Internet.
When in doubt - email!
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Finding these gems amongst the rot is the challenge. I know of a number of webmasters who have to change hosting services 3 or 4 times a year!
The downtime involved prevents them doing what they do best, to maintain and develop their sites.
Many personal and commercial web site hosting companies offer the world, but deliver little. Sifting through the fine print of their various "terms and conditions" is a huge task. Many site owners and webmasters, may not have weeks to pore through all the information offered them.
Regardless of how good any domain hosting service may claim to be or how they represent themselves, the only way you'll get to understand what they are offering is to ask questions - and then to file the answers for comparison later on. Look for user forums on their site to get a vibe of how other clients are finding the service.
Creating a template email to send out to domain hosting companies is the most time efficient way to cut through the crap and get to the gold.
But what questions should you ask a hosting service? A great deal depends on the type of web site you have. For the purposes of this exercise, we'll use an example of a typical Internet start-up who won't be looking for streaming-media or hosting large files in the short term. Even if your site is only a hobby web site, or community based - you never know when things may change. Taming the Beast.net began as a hobby site in 1996 and only served to assist my clients with driver links etc. - but all that changed in 2000. Traffic grew from a few visitors a day to currently, a few thousand....
Michael Bloch
www.tamingthebeast.netMichael Bloch
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