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The Basic Facts About
Business Web Hosting
By Terry Henry
There are a number of hosting options, from free to dedicated servers. Let’s
spend a few moments and look over the options.
Free Hosting
The first and not recommended is free hosting. Remember what they say, there is
nothing free. Well it’s the truth about this also.
Your webpage on a free hosting server may have banner ads from companies that
may not compliment your business or page theme.
Another common problem is the third level domain (http://yourpagename/theirdomain.com)
Now that doesn't look professional as a business. Would you share your business
name with some other company on a business card? I’m sure that would be out of
the question.
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting for the small business is the best way to go. Shared hosting has
the server divided up with other websites allowing a lower cost for hosting. In
most cases you are allowed more than enough disk space (Usually Between 100-500
Meg) and data transfer per month. The rule of thumb for small business is a
minimum of 100 Meg of disk space and 1 gig of transfer.
Dedicated Servers
The big boy on the block and the most expensive! Dedicated servers are used
usually by medium and large size companies. The advantage to this form of
hosting is complete control with the most disk space and the largest amount of
transfer (Most companies selling dedicated servers allow a minimum of 500 gigs
of transfer a month). Keep in mind that this requires a lot of technical
ability; most companies hire a network administrator to oversee this form of
hosting.
As you can see there are many options based on size and needs of your business.
Hopefully you are a little more aware of choices out there now and will make the
right choice on one that best suits your companies’ needs.
Copyright 2005 Terry Henry ( Henry Marketing and Development), all rights
reserved
About The Author
Terry Henry is operations manager for Henry Marketing and Development (www.hendev.com)
and the PowerZone Hosting Group (www.powerzonehosting.com) |
