9 Questions For Webhosting Company

We believe a website or blog is a cheap marketing tool, small marketing budget will get more result if you build and promote your company website well. A website or blog will work for you 24 for hours a day. Any salesman can do that? I’m sure not.  We need to choose a webhosting company for our new company website.

Before you choose a webhosting company to work with, is it very essential to ask the queston below to you candidate.

1. Domain. Domain is your name, your brand. Can you handle domain name registrations, transfers and renewals?
2. Email. How many e-mail accounts come with each plan and what are the set-up fees for new accounts? Most plans specify the number of e-mails accounts upon sign-up. If you need more later, additional fees may apply.
3. Email Storage. How much web hosting and e-mail space do I get and what are the charges for bandwidth use? In addition to the amount of storage space necessary for your content, there maybe a limit on the amount of traffic your site incurs. If you need more storage space or you exceed bandwidth use, additional fees may apply.
4. Does my plan include e-commerce and secure transfer of sensitive information (otherwise known as Secure Socket Layer [SSL])? Some types of information needs to be encrypted in transit.
5. Uptime Downtime. What is your uptime guarantee, and do you have a service level agreement? Most hosting firms offer 99% uptime (the amount of time your site will be available to viewers in the course of a year) and a guarantee (usually a rebate) if theycan’t provide continuous service. The Internet is not perfect, and many things are beyond their control.
6. Uploading and Development. What type of uploading or development tools do I need to add content to my site? If you’re doing site development yourself, you can either transfer your content to your site via FTP
7. What is the underlying technology of the server (Linux –PHP, Unix – Perl, Microsoft – ASP, Cold Fusion – CFM)?
8. What databases do you support? If your website needs to display dynamic data, those data need to be stored in an online database, such as MySQL, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, FoxPro, FileMakerPro, etc. Make sure your hosting company can provide support and database connectivity.
9. Do you offer application development or third-party web design and maintenance services? If you will be conducting ebusiness or e-commerce, you need to utilize scripting services and database development. Ask your hosting service if they can provide such services or if they can outsource it to a reputable  third party.

A good company hosting will be please to answer your question and not cheating you because you don’t have any idea with website and webhosting matters. A good quality webshoting company will support you and fix your problem in 24 hours a day and their staff must have years experience with hosting matters.