How to Find a web Host

Choosing a good web host straight from the beginning is very important for the success of your site. The web host plays a major role on the overall user experience on your site. Without a good web host, all the hard work you have put into your website will have been wasted. Make sure you know what to look for when choosing!

1. Reliability
Well, if you don’t want to have frequent website failures, data loss or being treated like an idiot from your web hosting provider, then you most probably need reliable web hosting provider. The worst thing you ever want is your website which you’ve invested so much development efforts to suddenly go offline because your host was not careful and did something stupid.
2. Research online
In order to verify the reliability of the different web hosts you will need to research online. Use search engines to gather customer reviews and check the online forums dedicated to web hosting (the best one is Web Hosting Talk).
3. Data Transfer (Traffic/Bandwidth)
Data transfer (sometimes loosely referred to as "traffic" or "bandwidth") is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site.
Many commercial web site advertise that they are providing “unlimited Bandwidth”. But this cannot be true. When you consume more bandwidth host has to pay for it. So it is very difficult to think that they pay that amount on behalf of you. Most websites will only need low bandwidth. Websites with a lot of large files may need more.
4. Server space
Initially, 10MB of disk space on a server should be enough for a typical business site. If your site has lots of graphics or multimedia files, you may need much more room; many hosts offer 100MB or more of disk space at reasonable rates. Also, find out whether email, log files and other "overhead" files count against your space limit — once you exceed your disk quota, the hosting service will charge a penalty. It's always better to have too much space than too little.
5. Customer Service
Quality customer service is another important aspect of choosing a web host. Make sure you can get technical support during the hours you're most likely to need it. You can check the quality of a web host's customer service by phoning their customer service with a question. Judge the helpfulness, timeliness and quality of the response that you get to your phone call or email message. At some point when you have your web site, you may experience some sort of problem so you need quality customer service that is responsive and helpful.
6. SSL (secure server), Shopping Cart
If you are planning to run any kind of business through your website, you might want to see whether the hosting company provides these facilities. These facilities are normally comes with a higher priced package or additional charges. The main thing is to verify whether these facilities are available at all before you commit to the host. If you want to collect credit card payments through your site you will definitely need SSL.