Hosting for your blog. What to look for?

Today we talk about hosting for your blog. Say what you like, but the problem of choosing web hosting there, especially for beginners. Personally, I repeatedly encountered people who confuse a domain name with hosting. They believed that once chosen domain name for your site, paid for it, then all now their site should work. And how it will work, where he will run - they did not understand and, in general, do not try to understand. 

Once you have decided to become a blogger, especially if you plan to continue to use blogs for business, understand this question you really have to. Since the quality hosting - this is, above all, reliable rear Internet entrepreneur.

Web hosting (hosting) - is hosted blogs (sites) on the virtual server hosting provider to your blog (site) was visible to Internet users.

You have to understand what your blog and all the files that you spread on it, must be stored somewhere. That's what you need and hosting!

First, for comparison, I want to tell you a little about free hosting. This sweet word "free", it no doubt attracted by internet users. Just want you down to earth: the provision of hosting services - this is not a cheap pleasure, and if the hosting company provides its services free of charge , rest assured, it will assert some other way.

What? But all the same! Advertise on your blog shortly. But this is not the only shortcoming of this host. Also, be prepared for that:

- Support for PHP and MySQL, most likely, will not, and without these components blog is not done;

- Download speed of your data on a server will be very low;

- Waiting for you to limit traffic at high traffic blog can simply remove, although this can happen at any time, without explanation, and pounding his chest with his fist will be too late, the hosting is free;

- The amount of disk space will be a little something about 30-100 MB.

You can continue this list, but in this sense can not see.

Free hosting suitable only for those who just want to train, without any hint of seriousness of their intentions. Starting a business on the Internet, a free hosting - this is a utopia. This home will not give you the image, so what's the image - you do not agree to deal not self-respecting client, a businessman, and partner. That kind of savings is a testament to greed or lack of experience. If you want to achieve something in online business, then at least do not skimp on quality hosting.

Today, the Internet there are many great companies, or, as they are called, hosting providers offering hosting services. Interestingly, they all offer "high-quality and affordable web hosting.

How to distinguish desirable from reality and how to make the right choice? Let's investigate.

1. The first thing that must begin. It's easy to type in any search engine phrase: high-quality hosting , hosting companies, hosting companies, rating or just "hosting". Next, write down even the first five of them.

2. The activity of each hosting provider for reliability and quality of services. The easiest way - read the testimonials of people who use their services. Of course we must take into account the fact that you may encounter biased. But in any case, you get more or less objective picture of each of them.

3. Take the advice of friends, a friend who already has experience in this field. If this does not you can seek advice from a guru of Internet business. Despite his employment, any of them will help you practical advice.

4. Once you have decided on your hosting company must choose a tariff plan that suits your purposes. Since this is a blog, whatever, you'll earn with it or not - in any case, you have to assume a large attendance.

Criteria for choosing the tariff plan:

First, on your tariff plan there should be restrictions on bandwidth, more simply, in any Enterprise blog must work stably.

Secondly, on the selected tariff should be supported PHP4/PHP5, Perl (v4, v5), MySQL. This included support of programming languages and databases. In the absence of these opportunities work blog is impossible.

Thirdly, the amount of disk space should meet your needs. Requirements for all different but in any case it should be noted that "the appetite comes with eating." First on your blog will not be anything other than text and a small number of photos. Later you may want to place in their own audio and video files. There should be a start of 1000 MB and above, generally the cost of the tariff plan is directly dependent on this index. Therefore, in order not to overpay, stop at 1000 MB, the more so for the beginning of this more than enough.

So, we reviewed the main points to be brought to account when selecting hosting . In the end, only want to add: before entering into a contract with a hosting provider is not too lazy to know whether the possible return of money if you are not satisfied with the quality of services. If this option is not available, I advise you to refuse the services of this host.