One of the great things I love about being on the internet and doing business there, is the low level to entry for just about any kind of business you can imagine. The biggest expense your going to likely incur as a new web entrepreneur, is your own time. And, you shouldn’t just discount that. Your time is a valuable resource, if you live in any kind of demanding life like mine. Job, family, and friends can take up a lot of your time, so spend it wisely. But, where I can get you some really inexpensive business start up resources is domain names and web hosting.

Prices for companies that offer these kinds of services are very competitive, so it’s pretty easy to get what you need at prices you can afford. Whether your just a small business that only needs shared hosting, or a full fledged corporation that needs a dedicated server with all the bells and whistles your going to be pleasantly suprised when you find out what’s available. Your more than likely going to have a hard time narrowing down your list of perspective vendors to a short list. That however, is a good problem to have. A word of advice though. Once you’ve chosen a vendor, be sure to keep that short list close at hand. You never really know how good a company is until you’ve used them for six months to a year. There may come a time, when you have to make a change, and it’s good to have that initial research close at hand.

Most webhosting companies are so competitive that they offer similar services.  The big distinctions will come in price, how much is included in that price, and the quality of customer support.  Some of the other factors you may consider are the length of time a webhost has been in business, whether they use renewable energy, [...]

If you hang around enough webmaster forums and start asking questions about web hosting your probably going to get lots of advice. One such piece of advice would follow along the lines of you get what you pay for, and there’s no way that discount web hosting will ever meet your needs. It will be unreliable, it will be slow, and they’ll never answer your support questions. Well, that’s just a truck load of nonsense. I use some 40 plus web hosting companies in my line of business, and I can say that 90 percent of the time they all do the job just fine. Mind you, I know exactly what I’m looking for, and I know what the going rates are for me requirements, so I have a pretty good chance of getting decent hosting. Inmotion hosting reviews may help you out in this category if your looking.

Web hosting has become such a commodity item these days, that there’s really no reason to pay an arm and a leg for it anymore. One rule of thumb I highly recommend you follow though, is to keep fresh backups of your site every day. That way, if things do go south with your web hosting company, then it’s no big deal to be back up and running quickly. On any of my my sites, I can be backup and running on a new server anywhere in the world in about 20 minutes. Web hosting is an imperfect business, and you need to be prepared for the worst.

I know, I can hear the critics talking now.  They’re going to tell me how web hosting is so much more cost effective these days then it was a few years ago, and to a certain degree their right.  I know I get a lot more bandwidth, disk space, and CPU speed for my web [...]