How to select a web host

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Problems with your web host can cost you a lot of money. Make sure that you make a careful choice in this area. Here are the most important things that you should look out for: 1. Make sure that they have good technical support. Preferably 24 hour 7 day per week support. 2. They need to have a fast connection speed. It is no good if it takes people forever to download your site. 3. Make sure that they guarantee their availability at least 99% of the time, preferably more (some guarantee 99.7% or 99.9%). When your website is successful, o­ne day that it is down can cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars. 4. You should have your own domain name (www.mydomain.com). The problem with free hosting is that they won't offer you your own domain, which means that your website looks very unprofessional Some other things to look out for, that you may or may not need depending o­n what type of web business you are going to operate: Ability to have a secure server for credit card transactions. You might need autoresponders for your website. Access to your log files so you can get stats for your visitors. Unrestricted FTP access to modify your site. Access to your personal CGI bin. Shopping cart software. For domain registration, and Hosting I recommend Value-Name.com which costs $8.75 per year, transfers with free 1 year extention costs o­nly $7.95 and at the time of this writing, they have a sale going for .biz and .us at $4.95 per year o­nly ! Software package that does everything for you There is a software package which I can highly recommend which is called Site Build It. This service will not o­nly build your website, but it also including hosting for your website, registering your domain name, submitting to the search engines, optimizing your pages so that you can get to the top of the search engines, and there is actually quite a bit more included in the package as well. Find domains that have just expired Sometimes you can get a really good domain name by looking for a domain that has just expired. Thousands of domains expire every week, and some of them are just because the owner forgot to pay! If you look carefully you can find some excellent domains. You might even find a domain that is already listed in Yahoo, or a domain that has lots of links to it from other sites - this way you can get a head-start with your web business! There is a free service where you can search for deleted domains at: www.deleteddomains.com Visit My Website At profitpuppy.com Note: By Rob Rawson Please Click if you like this on google plus.