With the dropping cost of web hosting, you, the consumer, have become king. Now you can get a web hosting account for a very reasonable price. There are thousands of web hosting providers on the Internet, so, how do you decide which one you should use?

A complete, inexpensive, web hosting package will have all the following essentials:

Reliability
This is the percentage of uptime the web hosting providers guarantees. No hosting provider can guarantee 100% uptime due to the need for servers to back up requirements and update necessities. Most hosting providers will perform these actions in the very early morning hours to prevent sites from being down during the day.

Bandwidth
1) When building a new web site, try to make the pages as small (file size) as possible. There are many free tools out there that will tell you the size of your pages and can also compress them to make them more compact.
2) When using images on your web site, try not to go crazy - keep the number of images to a minimum. Save images, as a .jpeg or a .gif
3) Make a concerted effort not to offer too many files for download. If for some reason you feel that you need to offer hundreds of downloadable files, try to select ones that are small in size (kilobytes).

Storage Space
A good hosting company will offer you a plan that will fit your site size with room for potential website growth.

Control Panel
The most common control panel is cPanel, which only runs on a Linux server.

POP3 email account
You'll need enough POP3 accounts for the amount of email addresses that you wish to assign to other people.

E-Commerce
To run an e-commerce online store and accept credit card payments, you'll need an SSL certificate, shopping cart software and possibly a merchant account.

(For online payments we recommend E-Path, who charge a low yearly fee with no on-going transaction costs!)

Customer Support
You should look for an inexpensive hosting solution that responds to your email enquiry within 24 hours and phone/e-mail support is available 24/7.

Scripting
Complete web hosting packages offer you advanced features like CGI Scripts, PHP, MySQL, and PERL.

Security and Spam
These features are classified in a separate category, and can include spam filters, anti-virus protection, password protected directories, etc.

Pipsqueak Web Designs can supply all these essentials ...... AND MORE!

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