Choosing Your Web Hosting Package

General rule of thumb is not to sign up for yearly web hostingplans. Instead, get monthly plan where you can unsubscribe fromon the second month when you are not happy with the service.That is, if you ended up with an unreliable web hosting companyin the first place.

Here is a simple guide that can be easily applied to typical websites:

–Web Space–

Expect a small website to take up 10 and 100 MB. Consideringthat you may want to expand your website in the near future, itis advisable to get a web hosting plan with ample web space.

Make sure that you know your needs before you start looking foryour web host. Not every web hosting plan can be upgraded orcustomised. More than often, webmasters do not get the featuresthey need and are not able to customise their web hostingfeatures.

–Monthly Traffic–

Data transfer per month are typically referred to as bandwidth.It is the amount of data transfer that occurs between yourwebsite and visitors. A small or medium web site will consumebetween 1 and 5GB of data transfer per month. Larger, commercialor popular websites often consume more than 5GB of monthly datatransfer and sometimes, exceeding 100GB of monthly data transfer.

Before you decide on a web hosting plan, be sure to check this:

- What is the monthly data transfer/ bandwidth allowed?

- Will you be charged if your website exceeds its limit?

- Are you able to upgrade/add on your bandwidth?

–Connection Speed–

Visitors to your web site will often connect via 56K modems orADSL modems but your web host provider should have a much fasterconnection. Your website should have high web site connectionsthat are approximately 1000 high speed (56 Kilobytes per second)modems combined- T3 fiber optic connections.

In the early days of the Internet, T1- connections wasconsidered a fast connection. The fastest connections availableare T3 connections that are used by Internet Service Providersand major corps.

About the author:Lester Boey works in an Australian SEO and Web Design companyhttp://www.definiteweb.com/ His life revolves around SEO;providing full-time and freelance seo services to US andAustralian businesses. Email: projects@definiteweb.com