A news website is a complicated website when it comes to design. It requires loads of information to be uploaded by the hour and with lots of things happening around it is difficult to manage news. Apart from all this, one also needs to catch attention of audience in more than one way of simply reading. Some visitors get attracted by photos, some by text and others by videos. Therefore, a news website requires providing news in all types of ways that are possible. There are lots of things, therefore, to look for in a web hosting company before hosting your news website.
Some of the steps in starting a news website are similar to normal website but others are exclusive to news/journalism only. The first thing to do is to create a domain name of the website which is available with the domain registrar. The domain name should be simple and easy to spell so as to make it easy to use be the audience. Sometimes the budding journalists try their hands at creating a news website but if you are serious for your website you may consider building a team, insuring your business etc. there are lots of formalities that can be performed either in the beginning or might be done after a business has started growing.
Designing a website is again an important factor. In a news it is necessary to design a website which allows you to make lots of changes in your website. The requirement of the bandwidth and disc space is also large in a news website because of the large amount of news flow. Also a news website is visited most of the time and therefore requirement of the customer support is very crucial.
A news website is not easy to host, therefore it is necessary to choose a hosting service with much care. It is wise to let your hosting service provider know about the requirements in detail before hosting your website. If the requirements can be met by the provider then only decide on a particular host.
There are some free hosting websites also available to the users today but it is recommended not to use free host for various reasons. The speed of free web hosting services is slow and also there is no control over placement of advertisements on websites in free hosting.
Thus, it would be better to go for the reliable and experiences web host for your news website