Choosing a Suitable Web Hosting Company
Services Your Company Needs
You will need to decide what services your company site will need. Will you be selling products online, then you will need web hosting that can provide Mysql database and SSL services. Room to grow your site is always preferred as you may add more products or detailed images, so expandable disk space is important. You may be getting 10 customers per day and then all of a sudden you are getting 500 customers per day, make sure you have adequate bandwidth and it too is expandable. Most hosting companies offer bandwidth increases at low or no cost.
You Get What You Pay For
Typically most hosting companies offer similar services, with CLIENT SUPPORT and CUSTOM SERVICES being the primary difference. Sometimes you don't even get what you pay for. Make sure there will be 24/7 support with people that you can talk with and understand. NO hosting provider is online 100%, most experience different degrees of downtime. You want to be notified if there are extreme hosting problems occurring. The ability to talk to someone if your site, especially ecommerce site is down for any length of time is very important. Ask for client references, as most reputable web hosting companies will provide existing client reference.
SEO Web Hosting
This type of hosting service provides a separate Class C IP for each account you host. The costs are usually more but worth the peace of mind knowing there are no other web sites under the same IP address. Some primary search engines look at this information and it gives you site a more solid appearance to have it own Class C IP address.