Building a blog website is facilitated by selecting a suitable hosting plan according to your needs and budgets. There are lots of hosting plans to choose from hosting providers, so be sure to read these steps to avoid the gimmicks.
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- 1Look for a company that is professional, reliable and responsible. It is important to sign up with one that has a 24-hour customer support line (for when your site goes down), and a money-back guarantee would be an excellent perk as well.
- 2If your website used PHP or ASP, PERL, make sure the host supports it. Also, if you use .htaccess to monitor your traffic, your host needs to allow it, or else it won’t function properly.So Make sure your language is supported.
- 3Be aware of how much disk space you’ll need. Most sites need less than 50 megabytes, but if you use lots of images and video and audio clips, you might need a little bit more space. You’ll also want to give yourself a bit of space for growth, or at least build this into your future goals.
- 4Determine your bandwidth needs. This is done by a simple formula: page size (including clips and graphics) multiplied by page views per month. So, if you have 2000 hits to your main page that is 1 megabyte every month,then that is 2000 MB or 2 gigs per month.
- 5Find out how many domains you can have. If you want to have multiple domains, make sure that your host will allow them. Multiple domains are a good idea if someone mistypes your URL.
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February 29, 2012 by BlueRox8566
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