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Once you have chosen and purchased a domain name for your business/services, the next important thing is how to choose an efficient and dedicated hosting service. Hosting service can make or break your business. There are mainly two types of hosting services. A dedicated host means a full computer is dedicated to host your websites. Shared hosting may host thousands of other websites on the same server which means slower response time.

If you are new to internet you can go for starter packages with shared hosting services. Gradually when you start expanding your business and require more programming go for dedicated hosting services. Spend some time about your needs and the kind of feature you are going to use on your website. If you are going to use multi media and videos, then disk space and bandwidth are very important to be taken into consideration.

Do you need UNIX or windows hosting? If your site is based on .Net or Active Server Pages, SQL Server or Access then you need windows hosting as these technologies only work with Microsoft operating systems. Normally most of the hosting companies offer both.


If your site is selling something online and needs credit card processing you should go for dedicated hosting service. Dedicated hosting is always much more reliable for ecommerce features because they are more secured than shared hosting services. Since there are at least hundreds of other websites on a shared server security becomes a problem.

How much you want to spend on your website hosting. Free hosting services are very attractive but full of ads and pop ups which can divert your potential customer. Now days hosting services are available at throw away prices like $3.95 to $ 9.95 per month. These are quite affordable for every one. Almost all companies offer a lot of disk space and enough bandwidth. Simply going for free hosting services and suffering loss just to save a few bucks doesn’t make sense, does it?