To conduct a successful marketing campaign on the Internet, your website must be hosted by a reliable web hosting company. Selecting the ‘wrong’ provider can prove very costly along the line.
Below I detail a few important aspects of the selection process based purely on my own experiences over the last six years.
Since there are thousands of hosting companies in the web hosting market, naturally during your research you will encounter hundreds of web hosting resource sites loaded with numerous and sometimes bogus reviews and recommendations, consequently your research process must be very thorough.
First and foremost do searches in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Simply enter terms like “Complaints about ‘Your Potential Host’s Name'” ‘Hosting Reviews’, etc…..You will find a lot of stuff regarding your potential host. Search for ‘web hosting forums’; there are numerous such forums on the web that contain all kinds of information.
If you consistently find too many complaints about your potential web hosting company…. beware!
A company that offers too...