How To Choose A Web Host
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Choosing a web hosting service is all about fulfilling your requirements. Before you could lost in the jungles of Web Hosting you have to do your own home work to list down your requirements.
In this tutorial I’ll explain how to select a shared web hosting provider. This tutorial is not applicable for Dedicated or Managed web hosting providers.
Hardware
The first and foremost requirement should be server hardware. If you are not a geek and have no idea about how to choose hardware then start with the most basic server configuration offered by the web hosting provider. Until n unless you want to host very sophisticated server the basic hardware will be sufficient for most of the requirements.
Web Server
Without any doubt you should be selecting Apache web server.
Control Panel
You will need a cPanel licence to manage server. Don’t choose Plesk as it is sluggish and doesn’t work very well. Most of the shared hosting providers offer cPanel for free so you don’t need to worry about it.
Database
Most of the cPanel based web hosts provide unlimited databases. Some of them restrict number of databases you can have. 1 and 1 offers limited database where as bluehost and hostgator offer unlimited database.
Most of them offer unlimited e-mails. This is no brainer as you will not be using hundreds of e-mails.
Support
Don’t opt for any support option. All of existing web host problems are already solved so just search for them on Google and you will find solution.
