Tips to Choose Hosting Company for Blogs
By
TheBloggerTips on
December 29th, 2007
How to choose a hosting company for your blogs? Here are some common features and tips:
- Reliability (recommended by other online users.
- Pricing & payment plan (affordable budget?).
- Technical Support – check on help center and forum service (24/7, Storage Backups, UPS Power Backup).
- Disk space (at least 500 GB).
- Free domain registration? (normally provide 1 free master domain name).
- Hosting multiple or unlimited domain names.
- Sub-domains (free and unlimited?).
- International or local provider? (depends on your needs).
- Forwarding Email Accounts & Autoresponder (more than 5000 or unlimited).
- POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support & IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support (at least 2000).
- Add-on Domains & Parked Domains (at least 10,000 or unlimited).
- MySQL Databases & PostgreSQL Databases (at least 50 or unlimited).
- Account “Control Panel” (accessibility and manage web account).
- Webmail (Browser Based Email) accessibility.
- Web File Manager & Fantastico Script Support.
- CGI Databases (PHP 5, Perl 5, MySQL 5 Database Server, PostgreSQL Database Server, Javascript/ DHTML, Etc).
- Free Website Plug-in Scripts.
- E-Commerce Features (shopping cart, SSL Secure Server, Etc).
- Multimedia Features (Supports Streaming Video, Audio, Flash Support, Macromedia Shockwave etc).
- Search Engine Submission.
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