Web Hosting
When building a new website you need to determine what is going to be the best web hosting plan for your
new site. If you are only planning on having a website ranging from 1-5 pages you wont need anything fancy
when it comes to a hosting plan. You do however want a hosting plan that has the highest amount of UP TIME,
this is term of how many hours in a day, week, month or year users will be able to access and view your website.
Most of the larger Web Hosting companies offer a 99.9% up time for there hosting services. There is always going to
be a certain amount of time in any giving day that a web hosting company will have to run there own system checks
for the Hosting Servers that maintain the websites that are currently attached to them. Just like your own Computer
you need to run the automatic updates which need to be restarted when done. This can take anywhere from 2 minutes
and upwards of 20-30 minutes depending on the application that is being updated on a specific computer or Hosting
Server.
If you plan on having 1000's of visitors on your site daily I would recommend that you purchase a higher grade of a
hosting plan or even maybe a Dedicated Server so that your site will have the least amount of down time and by
having a Dedicated Server your site will be able to handle almost any volume of traffic at any given time.
Example:
In rush hour traffic everything takes longer to get from Point A to Point B. This is the same senerio when it comes to website traffic to a Website, The More Users or Clients that are trying to view a website at the same time tends to slow down how quickly a website loads on the users computer. Now throw in the fact that still in the US almost 50% of the internet users are still using Dial Up which takes even longer to for a website to load on the users screen. If the Load time takes to long usually the user will find another website that is easier to view.
A Basic web hosting plan is perfect for small websites of less than 10 pages. If you plan on building a Shopping Cart style
website you will need to jump up to a dedicated server to make sure that your website is running at all times with a faster
load time so that visitors dont leave because of a site taking to long to load.
Basic Hosting Plans start @ $ 5.95 Per Month.
For Larger websites $ 9.95 - $ 99.95 Per month.