How To Pick Web Hosting Even If You Are An "Internet Newbie".
Whatever size business you are, you want your online presence to be effortless to set up and to manage. As a Small Business owner, this is even more crucial due to the many hats you are required to wear.
That fact in itself creates a massive problem, for, with so many web hosts to choose from and so little time, who gets the nod? How do you decide? If you are new to web hosting, it can become quite confusing.
We understand that, as a business owner, your time is stretched to the limit and you simply cannot immerse yourself in exhaustive research looking for the perfect web host. We decided to help you out by providing this small series of 6 tutorial articles entitled:
The 6 Golden Rules Of Web Hosting.
Shared, Dedicated or Virtual Private Server? Which one suits my business?
This is the number one question a non-techie small business owner must address once they decide that there is need for an online presence.
It doesn't matter how the website was created, HTML, Flash or even maybe a content management system such as Drupal, it needs to have an internet address. It doesn't matter how secure your database is, with no server to serve your site, it may as well not exist.
Spend just a few minutes on your favorite search engine researching Web Host Providers and you'll come away with at least half a dozen terms you may not have even known existed until then.
Shared, dedicated, Virtual Private Server, Linux Hosting, Windows, and PHP, just to name a few. Luckily, of all the terms you gather, you only need to learn what the core three, shared, dedicated and virtual private server means.
We will define each of these three main types of hosting server confugurations in a lot more detail down the line, but even before we learn what they are, we have another decision to make. What "Server Platform" are we going to use. Yes, the Mother of All Golden Rules!
Decide upon your platform. Golden Rule # 1.