How to Choose a Good Hosting Plan
First off, what is a hosting plan? Simply put, it is a place where your website is stored so that it is accessible from the internet. However, your hosting plan should offer more than simple storage space.
After you have chosen a domain name and began planning your website, the next logical step is to find a well-suited hosting plan. For individuals who are working on a shoestring budget, and who don't mind a banner ad on every page, there are several decent options for free web hosting. However, usually these hosting plans offer a bare minimum of options, usually only including some web space and perhaps one FTP account. However, if that sounds like what you need, then by all means take the free route!
If dealing with popups isn't your style, there are many paid hosting plans out there that are quite affordable, usually around $5-10/month. Many of these hosting plans offer tons of benefits that make them well worth the money. For example, any decent hosting plan will give you several email addresses customized to your domain, statistics of some description, a couple of FTP accounts, no advertising at all, a very high monthly bandwidth, and a high amount of storage. Most will also include additional features such as the ability to host several domain names, server-side programming, or the ability to have database interaction. This type of plan is usually an excellent choice for any small business.
Perhaps the site you are planning is going to be rather large, have database functionality, and you will want tons of features. The good news is, you can still usually get away with a hosting plan that is only $10-20/month. However for such sites you must know what it is you want your website to do, how it will be programmed, and what you want the upkeep to look like. Make sure you choose a server that allows your type of database, whether that is MySQL, Access, Oracle, or anything else. Also be sure your hosting plan includes the languages or plug-ins you will need. Many plans offer ASP.net, ColdFusion, or PHP, but be sure before you buy! There are also tons of extensions that can be added to your plan, so be sure they offer the ones you need as well.
Triad Webcrafters offers high-quality, full-featured web hosting on our own server space for only $6.00/month. This offer is only available to our clients who are participants in our website maintenance plan. If you are interested, please Contact Us.
There are many, many good choices when it comes to website hosting plans, but we have found that NeikoHosting.com appears to have one of the best values around, plus some of the best customer service we have encountered. We have also found CrystalTech.com to be superior in amount of features available, and they are sure to have some solution that fits your needs. You may also want to check with your internet provider. Many providers offer a certain amount of web space with their internet services for no extra charge. They may have exactly what you need, and then you wouldn't have to worry about hosting at all!
If you are still confused or in need of guidance in choosing a hosting plan, please do not hesitate to Contact Us and we will do our best to help you!