If you decided to create a site for your handcrafted items so you can sell them, what would you need to do? First, you would require a shopping cart on the site. This feature, along with other relevant features, may be available through only certain hosts. How do you know which one is right for you? Keep reading to find out extra features that you can get from your web page hosting provider.
Look at your web page hosting site to figure out what kind of websites they offer. Some free sites only offer pages that are static, which won’t allow you to write any of your own scripts. If you need to be able to do dynamic scripting, you may have to pay a web host for that service.
Dedicated or shared hosting, which one is right for you? Shared hostin provides limited resources and is probably not the right choice, if you experience a high volume of traffic and a fairly complicated site. If this is the case, you are better off with dedicated hosting.
Your domain name should be registered with an outside company. If you register it with your web host and the company goes under, you could end up losing your name. You won’t be able to control your domain registration, your host will.
Stick with a provider that’s in the same country as your target audience. For example, if your audience is located in the U.K., ensure that your hosting provider has a data center in the U.K. as well.
Be cautious with packages for web page hosting that allow unlimited services. For example, a claim of unlimited space may also contain restrictions on what types of files you can host. Also, unlimited bandwidth sometimes means a payment plan that is tiered. Review your contract carefully, consider different kinds of plans and remember that there is, generally, no such thing as unlimited features.
Customer Service
If you do not have much experience in web design, pick one of the web hosts that has excellent customer service instead of a lot of other extras. As a novice, you will find yourself full of questions about how to use certain features of your hosting package. The technical support that you will receive from a company with great customer service will be much more beneficial to you than a package of features you may never use.
If you lack confidence, take another look at the advice in this piece in order to select a web page hosting service that truly suits the needs of your website. Only pay for features that you truly need.