Personal Website Hosting - How to Choose a Web Host

A Myriad Of Choices

Personal website hosting is big business. Business host may even be a larger market yet. There are so many web host companies online, it can seem a daunting task to choose between the hundreds and thousands available. If you're unfamiliar with personal website hosting, the number of choices and the benefits and features that each company throws at you is confusing at best. We'll try and alleviate some of this confusion in this article...

How Do You Know Which Are Best?

The big question becomes, how do you know that you're signing up with a reputable company for your personal website hosting? Will you get a fair and reasonable package that includes quick and efficient support? If you're new at this, support becomes a big issue. How do you compare the many benefits and features that you are offered? Continue below, and we'll touch on the more important aspects of your personal website hosting package.

Web Host Review Sites

Web host review websites can help you in deciphering the myriad of information that you'll be bombarded with as you try and figure out the benefits of any given host company for your personal website hosting.

A hosting review site has already accomplished an in depth review of the best and most popular web hosts. They've gone through and found the good, the bad, as well as the ugly about certain companies. Generally speaking, a review site will give you at least ten of the best web hosts for personal website hosting ranked from 1 through 10. You can generally compare packages from one host to another, price, support ratings and overall feedback on a particular host. Generally speaking, the top five of the ten are the only ones worth looking at, sometimes the number one ranked will stand head and shoulders above the rest.

The Four Types Of Website Packages

Dedicated Server

Dedicated Server, where you are allocated one full server to yourself. You share this with nobody. Unless you're going to be setting up many, many websites, I don't recommend this. There is a bit of a learning curve in server administration. But you can get fully managed servers also. The prices on servers can run anywhere form $100 to many hundreds of dollars per month.

VPS - Virtual Private Server

VPS (Virtual Private Server) Host packages are similar to dedicated server plans except you do share your personal website hosting with other people's websites, but not near as many as you would on a shared host account. Generally, less than 10 other VPS subscribers (depending on the package) will be on the same server. Again, this would be a package you would use for many websites. VPS hosting generally costs from as low as $20 per month and up...Please click one of the links below to continue to part two of this series...

Continue Reading Part Two Here

Continue with part 2 of Personal Website Hosting - How To Choose A Web Host - Part 2. Some of the topics we'll be covering are Reseller Hosting, Shared Server hosting (most popular), what you need to look out for as far as server uptime, disk space, bandwidth and more. You're well on your way to getting your Personal Website Hosting.