CHOOSING HOSTING
This
term can be used to refer to the housing of a web site, email or
a domain. Your web site must physically reside on a computer (a
server) that's connected to the internet, and managed by a hosting
company, which ensures it is always available. Hosting companies
typically charge a one-time setup fee in addition to the monthly
hosting fee. A Hosting Services Provider (HSP) is an application
service provider dedicated to providing hosting services.
Choosing the right hosting company is a
must in achieving top search engine rankings for several
reasons. First, you want to choose a reputable company that
has 99.7% uptime or better so that when the search engine
spiders and robots make it to your website, your website
will be up and operating. If you hosting company tends to
have a considerable amount of downtime, then these spiders
and robots may just visit your website when it is down and
not come back to it for weeks or months.
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This
is a huge price to pay for being cheap! In this case, being cheap
will cost you more money. It is better to choose a hosting company
will give you, say 100mb of disc space for your site (most websites
come nowhere near to this size and if they do, they are either a
major mega website or they have not been optimized for size or speed
properly) and the most bandwidth you can get - 30 or 40 gigs, for
instance.
If
you go with a cheaper hosting site you may get only 10mb of disc
space for your site and 1gig bandwidth. The problem with this scenario
is that if you go over the disc space or bandwidth limitations,
your hosting company will most likely charge you lots more dough.
Sometimes a cheaper hosting company will shut your site down if
immediate payment is not made. Once again the search engine spider
or robot may just pass your by. So it is better to buy more than
you need and not have to worry about limitations.
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