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Finding the Best Hosting Company

The host you choose depends on the type of website you have. This includes how much disk storage space you need, how much traffic you have, e-commerce transactions required, amount of technical support needed, scripting and programming languages used, email account usage, statistics program preferences, operating system preferences and server capability requirements.

What to Look for in Hosting Capabilities

Uptime guarantee, 24/7/365 support and monitoring, bandwidth, ftp service, file management, archive management, type of ip address.

What to Look for in Email services

Number of POP3 email accounts, mailing list manager, aliasing, autoresponders, email forwarding, PGP mail, spamguards.

What to Look for in Design Capablities at a Host

Frontpage extensions, hit counter, cgi bin, password protection, PHP/MySQL, RealAudio/Video, shopping cart, server side include (SSI), redirect url, formmail.

What to Look for in Marketing Services at a Host

Daily web site statistics and access to raw web logs.

Create a Checklist of What You Need in a Host

Go comparison shopping. There are sites that evaluate various hosts based on price, performance and customer service. You can also do research at webmaster newsgroups and message boards to see what other people are recommended in hosting. In most cases you get what you pay for so be sure to find hosting that correctly meets your online needs.

Managing your Hosting and Domain Registration

Acquiring suitable web hosting and finalizing domain name registration are the first steps in creating a web presence. Once these decisions are made, however, it is not the last time you'll need to think about them.

Over time, as a web site evolves, so too will its needs. Beyond the necessity of maintaining ownership of your domain name, there may be a need to acquire additional domain names for your site. Likewise, the ideal web hosting package you acquired initially may not meet your needs down the road. Monitoring web hosting and domain registration needs is critical in running any online venture successfully.

Managing Domain Registrations

When a domain name is initially purchased, you are required to select a time period for ownership. This usually runs from one to three years. Unless a domain registrar offers an automatic renewal option, the process must be repeated when ownership expires. Many registrars offer a 'grace period' in which to renew a lapsed domain name, but the length of this time varies, and it is not available everywhere. Failure to renew your domain registration in time could result in permanent loss of ownership. Once the 'grace period' expires, your domain name returns to the open market. There is an entire industry built around the purchase of expired domain names, and buying back what you formerly owned may not be so simple.

To avoid the situation entirely, it is always a good idea to take advantage of an auto-renewal option for your domain registration. If your registrar does not offer this option, be sure to configure your domain management account to send timely renewal alerts. Even if you forget to check into your account at the registrar's site, you will receive enough notice to renew your domain name registration in time.

A second component of domain name management is monitoring the effectiveness of your domain name in terms of marketing and traffic. Over the time, careful review of traffic logs and search engine marketing data could identify potentially advantageous domain names for your site.

Multiple domain registrations may be a confusing concept, but the reality is that one web site can be reached by any number of domain names as long as their DNS information is configured correctly. This is often referred to as an alias.

You may find that domain registration for several variations on your company or website name is a traffic bonus. Keywords with strong performance used with a domain name can also be beneficial.

Only vigilant management of your domain name ensures your continued ownership and its value.

Managing Web Hosting

The goal of any web site is a steady flow of traffic and steady growth pattern. With this in mind, it is only reasonable to assume that needs once served by a web hosting package will eventually outgrow it.

There are a few aspects of web hosting requiring frequent monitoring. Bandwidth use, storage space, and access to technology are all important considerations in determining how well your web hosting provider meets your needs. If your hosting package allots a specific value for bandwidth or storage, yet growth has caused you to consistently exceed that quota, it is a clear indication your web hosting resources are lacking. Whether your traffic has sky rocketed, or your customer database has grown, it is time to consider upgrading your hosting package, or finding a new web hosting provider. Likewise, if growth mandates the addition of new technology, yet your provider or web hosting package does not support the programming language that runs it, it is time to move.

Monitoring your web hosting needs is a matter of reviewing traffic logs and reporting supplied by your web host. Consistently reviewing this information can help identify a change in your hosting needs before it reaches a critical point.

Clearly, neither domain name registration nor web hosting is a one-time event. For any successfully run web property, they must be monitored and altered as necessary.

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