Business Website Hosting: 17 Requirements
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11:34 am
This blog entry was posted on April 4, 2007.
How should a business choose a business web hosting service? The decision should be based on reliability, service, spam filtering, security and similar business required services. Today, bringing website visitors and search engine visibility are critical to businesses. In general, hosting is so universally inexpensive that price should not be a major part of the decision.
So what should a business look for?
- Do you need a Windows or Linux hosting server? If your website uses PHP, you will need a Linux server, Apache+Linux is better. Your web hosting service should support use of PHP, Perl, and JAVA.
- Client access to Control Panel for setting up email accounts, and configuring website settings.
- Website statistics and traffic reports to track visitors.
- Support multiple domains per hosting account.
- 24/7 FTP Access.
- 24/7 Server Technical Monitoring.
- Dedicated IP address – Important for SEO.
- Daily, weekly and monthly Database and Web Page Backups.
- Email virus filtering.
- Multiple Email spam filtering options.
- WebMail Access with secure login.
- MySQL databases for web applications
- Webmaster support available for content changes.
- PHP Programming support available for changes and troubleshooting.
- SEO (search engine optimization) services available.
- Digital certificates purchase and installation available.
- Ability to purchase and maintain domain names.
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Your page has some excellent guidelines re selecting a host. Can you also direct me to a source of info on how to limit access to particular pages or PDF documents within a site to those with a mandatory user name and password? Ernie
Comment by Ernie Feleppa — July 24, 2007 @ 10:32 am
Ernie,
You can secure a folder using the HTAccess file if you are using a Linux hosting. Here is a good article on this. http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html
Comment by Doug Williams — July 24, 2007 @ 10:59 am
I’m using this service to monitor my website’s position – http://monitor.mazecore.com . They provide rank and uptime monitoring with alerts, but position monitoring on free account is enough for me. I recommend this service with free tariff for your website.
Comment by Mike — October 10, 2009 @ 3:59 am