Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Key features to be looked for while choosing a web host

While zeroing in on a web hosting service provider, you should ensure that it provides you with the basic web hosting features. These features are provided irrespective of the web hosting package you are planning to purchase. If any web hosting service provider does not give you the basic web hosting features, you should move on to look for someone else.

Here is a list of some key features that you must look for while choosing a web hosting service provider.

• Adequate server space and bandwidth. You must get a minimum of 20MB to 50MB of server space.
• 24/7 customer support
• Your own domain name
• A minimum of 10GB of monthly transfer
• Unlimited true POP email accounts
• Proper email forwarding facility
• Unlimited free access to your server via FTP or Telnet
• Unlimited auto-responders
• Server Side Includes (SSI) support
• Unrestricted CGI-Bin
• MySQL Database
• Proper password protection
• Perl
• Unrestricted access to SSL encryption to ensure secure transactions
• Data and information on your website traffic
• Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions
• Access to your log files
• Referral Program

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