Here are a few tips of the trade that will aid in your web hosting cause
- Nothing beats a decent research when choosing a web host. The world is yours, search the company information online, to find out if they are credible.
- The basics of developing tool the web hosting should have are PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, CGI, .htaccess , cron jobs. If they don’t have it, skip it.
- Billing and Payments should be automated or have access to view/search records. Those don’t offer such billing support portal, well they’re not professional enough.
- Never get a web hosting from a reseller. Means, their hosting is bought from another hosting giant company. They’re just reselling it to you in higher prices. Reseller have a reputation to be bad business.
- Never register your domain name through your web hosting company. Usually I would separate these two. I use GoDaddy for my domains while HostGator for my hosting. This is so when you want to move host perhaps, things get complicated.
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