How to choose a dedicated Hosting Company
Hosting is a service which hosts your website and your emails. Basically it handles all of your web files, emails, graphics, databases, dns information and much more. Choosing a hosting company sometimes can be overlooked as the value of the service is usually only around £100 a year or £10 a month, but choosing the wrong hosting company can turn your website in to a living nightmare especially if you receive downtime or email problems as this is vital to your website and business.
When choosing your hosting you need to think about some of the technologies that your website uses and make sure they are installed on your hosting server. Ask you hosting company about this, and also check the availability of extra services such as web statistics which will show you the amount of users viewing your website. This can be very useful to marketing and when you are using search engine optimisation services to view the amount of hits. Also your hosting should provide a control panel such as plesk or cpanel. These are pieces of software which give you the right to login and add email accounts, add databases, access FTP details and much more.
Having the correct software on your host is important, but more importantly you will need to ensure that the service is quality. The most important factor is the uptime of the server, for instance having downtime means that your website and emails aren’t available which results in loss of business and much more. Also you will need to make sure that if you have any problems with the service, you can call someone and it will be resolved.
The leading Hosting provider in the World is RackSpace. RackSpace host 23,000 servers worldwide and we are proud to have our 3 servers at there premises in the London Data Exchange. Our hosting servers have had 100% uptime for well over 5 years now and the service is unbeatable. quick, but yet affordable. We also take on RackSpace's Fanatical support which means that you can have unlimited support.
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By Sam Howell - 1st May 2007
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