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Top Tips To Choose The Perfect Shared Web Hosting Plan
By Agnivo Roy
Are you an experienced webmaster with hundreds of websites online or a newbie who wants to build some sites seriously and join the bandwagon? Whatever be the case, one thing which you will need to have your websites online is a web hosting service. A shared hosting plan is perfect for starters or webmasters with low to medium traffic sites. Read on and I promise you a wealth of information which should help you extremely in choosing the perfect web hosting package to suit your needs...

Basics: What Is Shared Hosting?

Shared web hosting service can be compared to a shared cab where a number of passengers use the same vehicle by paying a relatively lower fare. Similarly, in case of shared webhosting, the server's resources are distributed among the accounts for a cheap and affordable monthly fee. You get a predefined chunk of disk space, a fixed monthly bandwidth or transfer quota and a control panel to manage your hosting account. It should be mentioned that the CPU and RAM (speed and memory) resources are shared among all the customers on a single server. So, if one tends to utilize a very high amount of CPU or memory, then the others tend to suffer. But hosts monitor all accounts and ask the over-using customers to either leave or upgrade their plans.

Factors That Matter

Now let’s take a look at the top tips...

» Disk Space

Most shared hosting plans now offer more than 5GB disk space and that should be more than enough for most. Although you may see hosts offering outrageously high disk space, ideally customers aren't able to use them. Don’t go for a higher plan just seeing a higher amount of disk space. You can always upgrade when required with most hosts.

» Technical / General Support

This is one of the most important factors while choosing a host. Do they offer live chat, ticket based or email based support? Do they have a toll free number and able support representatives? What is their average turnaround time? Do they provide support 24x7 in your language? These are the questions you should ask them initially.

» Hosting Features

For your website and scripts to function properly, your hosting features should be compliant. What scripting language and database options does it offer? PHP, ASP.NET, Perl, MySQL, MSSQL, Linux or Windows? - Which of them do you want? Also check what control panels they are offering and try a demo to make sure you are comfortable with it. How many FTP, email, databases, sub domains, parked and add-on domains do they offer and does that satisfy