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By the end of 2010, there were more than 230 million domains online across the globe. That is your competition. Everybody has a website and everybody has a different purpose for having a website. It's the best time to join this global revolution but if you don't get your groundwork right, it could also be the worst. Most importantly, choosing the perfect webhosting plan
The market is absolutely saturated by web-service providers and your selection process between good and bad web-hosting plans is what makes the difference in not just the customer traffic but also the search engine ratings.
Picking that perfect webhosting plan is not the easiest thing to do. I understand that, which is why I have listed some important things to keep in mind while selecting the ideal webhosting plan.
1. What kind of a website are you launching? Your selection of the perfect web hosting plan is completely based on your requirements. It is imperative to figure out the kind of website that you are trying to launch. Is it a personal/blog based site or a business site? It is also important at this point to calculate the growth potential of your site, to figure out the right bouquet of features for you.
2. What kind of platform do you want to work with? Whether you need to be hosted on a Unix or NT server depends largely on what you plan to do with your site
3. Control Panel - This is important in case you wish to manage certain parts of your web account yourself. We wouldn't want to go to our web hosting provider's technical support for little things like changing passwords and other maintenance jobs every time.
4. SSL server and shopping cart This is crucial in case you are starting a web business which would involve credit card transactions.
5. Email auto-responders, POP3, Mail forwarding All of these features would further augment your service quality. An email address at your own domain with a catch all email facility is indeed attractive.
6. Price and payment plans Good business sense says that you should strive to combine affordability and price along with service. The cheapest service may not reliable but the most expensive may fail as well.
7. Technical support 24/7 customer support is crucial for a good business.
8. Reliability and other customer reviews More often than not other customer reviews can help understand the reliability of the producer better.
