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May 28, 2007

Web site Hosting Nightmares: Avoid the Pitfalls

Price is only one factor in choosing a hosting service provider. Use this advice to avoid nightmares with your web site hosting provider.

• Nightmare - Your customers can't access your web site because it is unavailable, resulting in lost sales and opportunities:
  
  How much bandwidth and disk space does your web site need to run at peak performance? Does the host offer 99.99 percent uptime? Do they offer a solid infrastructure that ensure redundancy?
  
  
• Nightmare - It takes so long to load webpages that prospective customers leave your site in frustration:
  
  Does your hosting provider have multiple high-speed connections? Can your hosting provider expand as your business grows?
  
  
• Nightmare - Something goes wrong with your web site and no one will help you:

Does your hosting provider offer 24/7 customer service? Is the support included in the price of your hosting service?