{"id":4088,"date":"2008-08-27T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/the-web-hosting-decision-how-to-choose-a-web-host\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T20:44:01","slug":"the-web-hosting-decision-how-to-choose-a-web-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=4088","title":{"rendered":"The Web Hosting Decision: How To Choose A Web Host"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Darrel Hawes<\/div>\n

If you are launching a new website, one critical decision is where to have the site hosted. A web host is the location of where your web site actually resides on the internet. It may help to think about this in relationship<\/a> to a human family. They have many options where they may live, and there is just a single place that is there home at any given time.<\/p>\n

Websites reside on web servers, which are computers attached to the internet which keep website pages and serve them up when people want to view them. A computer which stores websites is called a web host.<\/p>\n

One choice you will need to make is if you will use a paid web host or a free one.<\/p>\n

Using one of the free sites is tempting, because not only are they free, they often include easy site building tools. While using a free site can be quick and easy (not to mention free!), you should not rely on them. Not only do many of them display ads<\/a>, but you also do not have control over whether they decide to delete your site or shut down the service tomorrow. That being said, using a free site can be an effective marketing strategy. Some popular services include Blogger<\/a>.com and Weebly.com.<\/p>\n

For your paid site, you can either buy space yourself or if you use the services of a web designer, they will often arrange or provide it for you as part of your fee. There are many capable web hosts available. When selecting a web host, you should consider the following:<\/p>\n

Price: how much are they going to charge you every month? What features might you need that will cost extra?<\/p>\n

Reliability: does the company have a history of problems with keeping sites up? Try and look beyond the actual out of pocket cost of hosting<\/a> and gauge what it will cost if your site goes down for any period of time.<\/p>\n

Cpanel: you should not consider any web host that does not offer cpanel for configuration.<\/p>\n

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If you are launching a new website, one critical decision is where to have the site hosted. A web host is the location of where your web site actually resides on the internet. It may help to think about this in relationship to a human family. They have many options where they may live, and there is just a single place that is there home at any given time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}