Webhosting 101

In one of the recent articles I wrote about the need for an artist to have a website. Now you need a hosting company. You better pick a good one, which is not necassarily an expensive! A webhost is a company that takes care about your website. It makes the site available to the world wide internet population so it is an important factor during your online adventures.

  • If your website is slow, visitors are annoyed!
  • If your website is offline, your business is closed!
  • If you have too low volume on your hosting plan, but create killer artwork and content and recieve high traffic, you might pay more or the host might take your website offline or put it on a slower server.

Things to consider when picking a webhost

  • How much webspace do you get?
  • What does the webhost offer besides webspace? php, mysql, shopping carts?
  • How much traffic is in your package?
  • How fast are the servers? How many people are on one server in case you pick shared host?
  • How many email accounts can I create?
  • Linux or Windows?
  • How is the customer support?

There are a few very solid hosting companies around, two I have had experiences with and would recommend are Hostgator, which is the hosting company of my choice. The other one is Bluehost, which a few of my friends use and is very good performance wise.

Hostgator - smashill is hosted on hostgator servers, so you can get an image of the server speed. I really like the great customer support and fast shared hosting. There are a lot features and I will list a few more … unlimited Disk Space, unlimited Bandwidth, Host unlimited Websites, Instant Setup, 99.9% Uptime Guarantee, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee, CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl, MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP, POP, 24/7/365 Upgraded Support starting at $7,95 per month

Bluehost - Is another solid hosting company. Fast hosting, cheap prizes, unlimited Hosting Space web hostingHost UNLIMITED Domains, 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts, SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL 2000/2002 Front Page Extensions starting at 6,95$ per month

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