lets see how to choose a commercial web host. our ultimate aim is to get a host according to our need with affordable cost(minimum cost, maximum acquisition)
Web Space
web space took the major consideration in choosing the best plan. the web space allotment varies according to the plan you choose. it starts from 10MB to Unlimited space.Choose a plan with space that enough for your need.Unlimited hosting space is not recommended.
How much space is required to host a website?
for single paged sites 1MB is more than enough,so a site can be hosted from 1 MB, if your site have more pages, more graphics files like flash contents, pictures, video files then accordingly your requirement of space increases. Normally a good site without any attractive gimmicks like flash, gif files, pictures, videos can be hosted in 50 MB space.
WordPress Sites acquire about 8MB for installation and it increases accordingly the content increases.
Also consider how many sites you are going to host in a hosting plan. if you are going to host 10 websites in one plan, then calculate the space needed to host all those websites.
Note : unlimited space hosting are not truly unlimited : [Refer Other Posts of this site]
Bandwidth allotment
Bandwidth allotment for a hosting plan usually starts from 1GB/month to Unlimited/month.
Note : unlimited bandwidth hosting are not truly unlimited : [Refer Other Posts of this site]
to calculate how much bandwidth you needed, follow the simple calculation.
bandwidth needed approx = number of visits x size of the content
size of the content includes pictures and other media files that visible in the pages and which is stored in webspace
bandwidth needed=(size of the page1 x number of visits to page1)+(size of the page2 x number of visits to page2)+……….+(size of page n x number of visits to page n)
the above calculation are done for month. If you have 500mb of bandwidth per month then you can able to transfer 500mb of content to your visitors overall.note that your upload also included in this bandwidth calculation. you should not meet the bandwidth shortage situation. so choose your bandwidth according to the need.
File Type Limitations and Restrictions
most of the hosting providers will not limit the size of the file and type of the file, i said “most of the ” not “all of the” so be careful about this factor when choosing the commercial hosting plan.some of the hosting providers denote this in their “terms and conditions” page.
Sub domains and Ad-on domains
check for number of sub-domain, add- on domains, parked domains supported by the hosting plan.
if you plan to have blogs,forum, for your website then subdomains are needed to host like this blog.alvistor.com, forum.alvistor.com, yourname.alvistor.com
did you ever watched the url of wikipedia. for every language it has its own subdomain like
for English – en.wikipedia.com
for Italiano – it.wikipeida.com
for Deutsch – de.wikipedia.com
so on. so calculated how many sub-domains needed,
If you planned to host more than one domain in your hosting plan then you have to check how many add-on domains are supported by the plan.
Database
Most of the websites are database driven, The CMS[content management system] softwares like wordpress, drupal also depends on the database.
Database is very crucial for every website. the need for database starts from major CMS to mailing list.
So every sort of functionality needs its own database, so check for how many databases are allowed to create.my recommendation go for unlimited database.
Features and Fuctionalities
Check for the features and functionalities provided by hosting provider in a plan,
some of them are,
- advertising credits (google,yahoo ad credits)
- free domain name
- free search engine submission
- free seo
- 24×7 customer support
- free setup
- 100%(99.9%) uptime
- backup policies
- chron jobs
- mailing lists
- forwarders
- ftp accounts
- e-mail accounts
- .htaccess accessability
- MX entry accessability
- ready made scripts
- one click installation for famous s/w like WP,Drupal
- etc
you need atleast one e-mail account from your host to send mail from your website,like feedback.
if you want more , then configur with google.Gmail provide e-mail for organisation also like admin@alvistor.com [Refer other posts]
Written by tharansakthi (Sakthi Tharan)
About Author: Pursuing his Masters in Computer Science. Web Designer and Developer who have blogging as a hobby, and finds joy in spreading the knowledge to everyone.
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