Tips on Finding Low Cost and Reliability With Web Hosting Services

Posted by – September 1, 2010

When one looks for web hosting services, he can find lots of these companies populating the Internet. These companies always stand ready to offer their services to those that need them. All of them claim to offer the most reliable quality web hosting packages for the businessmen and website owners.

However, with all the prices soaring, it is imperative for web hosting seekers to look for low cost web hosting. Because it is important for business, businessmen are always on the lookout for web hosts that are reliable. Can low cost services really be relied upon for your business web site needs? How can one judge the reliability of a service? Here are few most important features that you should look at in order to major the reliability of a host.

Up Time

First, the host should be able to guarantee a 99.8-99.9% percentage of up time. Why should we strictly choose only those that offer this percentage? This is because these figures translate to an availability of 24 hours, 7 days a week. This is very important for any website, which can be personal, business or build for non profit purpose. On the other hand, an hour of downtime means a loss of potential traffic to the website. In an online business, the more people that visit your website, there are more chances that some of them will convert into becoming customers. Hence, if you plan to leverage the Internet for a business or a work-at-home job opportunity, be sure to pick only those budget web hosting companies that are able to guarantee 99.9% of availability.

Is it Over Sold

This is pretty much explanatory. Access speed is the rate in which the page is accessed by users in any time of the day. It is important that a user can quickly access the content of a website at any point of time in a day and at a fast rate as well. Aside from the rate of availability, the access speed of a web hosting service is an important requirement to look for in a low cost web hosting service.

You can simply do this by trying to access the websites that these services host. You can usually find their portfolio in the service’s website. Keep track of their access speeds, or how fast you can download the pages of their hosted sites. If the page download is good enough then all you have to worry about is the price, if it is up to par with your business budget. When in doubt, you can always check Alexa.com for a list of the Top 4 web hosting services in terms of access speeds.

That’s just about it. To sum it up, the marks of a good low cost web hosting consists of being available 99.9% of the time and being able to provide speedy access to the actual websites. If the budget web hosting service you are looking at has these features, then surely you get good value for your money.

Bill McNulty
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    It means the IIS is either not running, or if its running its not on port 80.

    Check if IIS has been started in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

    Then go to IIS and click on properties to see if the default port is 80.

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