The Perfect Hosting Plan

When researching The Perfect Hosting Plan there are several things to take into consideration... Uptime Guarantees, Space, Overall User Friendliness, Web Tools, etc. Our goal is to help you identify The Perfect Hosting Plan for your business.

Step 1. Do I Need Hosting?

It really depends on what your goals are for your domain name you just registered. If you plan on becoming an affiliate for someone else's product, you can easily forward your newly registered domain name to your affiliate link. Therefore, you wouldn't need hosting. However, all good marketers and those making good money online will tell you that even if your plan is to become an affiliate for someone else, you should create your own site and begin building your own list. That way you can market to that list over and over again.

Step 2. What is Web Hosting?

Web Hosting simply put is a place where you store all your files or data which will display on your website for viewers to see. This is where you will create directories or folders to organize the content of your website much like a filing cabinet organizes your personal documents.

Step 3. What should I look for when selecting a hosting company?

Again it somewhat depends on what you plan to accomplish with your site. For most people just starting out, there are 3 critical things you must look for in choosing the best hosting company.

  • 1. Uptime Guarantee - critical and in my opinion most important. When you start spending money on marketing or your site crawls to top of the search engines, you can't afford your site to go down. Each second it goes down, you lose money...and in some cases it could be very very significant.
  • 2. Customer Service - especially if this is your first time. You must be able to contact someone so they can walk you through the process of simple tasks like changing nameserver information or setting up email. Or if something happens to the site, you'd better be able to talk to someone.
  • 3. Money Back Guarantee - this will allow you to test the service to make sure it will work for your needs. If not, you can always move your files somewhere else. Try to plan ahead of time what you want to accomplish with your site and then find a hosting plan to fit your needs.

Other than these 3 things, there are lots of other features you need to look for.

    4. Price - many hosting companies have similar features but charge you more. They may also charge you for features you'll never need or use.
    5. User Friendliness - to me this is a biggie. I don't want a confusing control panel that I don't know how to navigate through. I want something easy and something that is plug n play.
    6. Space and/or Bandwidth - just starting out most hosting companies have plenty...you'll never use a fraction of what they give you until you start getting lots of traffic. Then you'll need to be concerned with this.
    7. Blog Integration - right now blogs are hot! Some hosting companies offer some very friendly blog tools that integrate with WordPress so with the click of a few buttons, you can have your own blog set up in a matter of minutes. And we all know search engines love blogs.

There are tons of other features like shopping carts, site builders, templates, analytics and so on. Again, just determine ahead of time what you need and as your business grows you can grow also. And if you're not sure, just go with something simple for now...if you find down the road you need something different to accommodate your business, you can always move your files somewhere else.

Based on our own experiences with multiple companies and what we look for in the Perfect Hosting Plan, we've identified the top 3 Web Hosting Companies we feel are the best. Yes, you will be able to find hosting out there that may be lower in price, in fact you can even get hosting for FREE...but just remember you always get what you pay for.

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Once you've selected the Perfect Hosting Plan, Now you are ready to SET UP THE PERFECT WEBSITE