How To Make Money Online - Common Questions - Part 13
What Is Hosting
What Is Hosting
In its simplest terms, hosting is just the servers that house the files associated with your website. You see, in order for visitors to see whats on your site, your files have to be stored some where that they can be accessed quickly and easily. Here are a few things you should look for when it comes to your hosting company.
Reliability
Reliability is very important. You want to make sure that your website will be accessible your visitors at least 99.5% of the time. Actually 99.9% will be much better. Things happen so there is always a chance that your site might not be available at one time or another. But if your site is down half of the time, you will have a hard time making any money. When checking reliability you should make sure the company has a guarantee.
Disk Space And Bandwidth
Disk space is the amount of space you will have to store any of your files and emails on the server. Bandwidth is the amount of traffic your site can handle. For example, if your hosting company gives you 1GB of bandwidth, that is about 100,000 hits a month. You want to make sure that your hosting company provides unlimited disk space and bandwidth.
Price
You should not pay more than $10 a month for your hosting. You actually should pay much less than that. These days, there are a ton of hosting companies out there that offer an array of services. The competition makes it easy for you and I to find very affordable hosting for our websites.