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Finding a web host that you can rely on is much easier than you think. I know you can go to Google and search for web hosting and come up with thousands of different hosting companies. Its very intimidating to pick a host from all those results. It's difficult to distinguish one from another, who can be trusted and who can not. But here are some tips in finding a web host who you can have confidence in.

How long have they been in business?

An important criteria to look at is the age of the hosting company. Lets face it! In the web hosting industry, you're going to find a lot of fly by night operations. You've got to make sure that the company you choose has been around for more than a day. Usually (although not in every case) most hosts that have been in business for more than few have a certain dependable reputation. If they didn't, they probably wouldn't be in business for very long. Especially with how easy it is for a customer to switch hosts, due to the major competition in the industry.

Customer service has to be 24/7

There is absolutely no excuse for hosts not to offer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week customer support. Your website is online every second of every day, therefore your host should be accessible every second of every day. If you ever encounter a problem, the host should only be a call away, even if its Christmas or New Years Day.

Uptime is critical

Above anything else, a hosting company should have strong and reliable servers. After all this is what you're paying for. All the extra features in the world don't mean a thing if people can't access your website. You should be able to sleep and know that your website can be reached by anybody. There should be no delay or crashes, These kind of issue will always lead to lost sales and customers. If a customer has to wait for your web pages to load, they'll just move on to a competitor's web site. Try finding a web host that has a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

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Today we're going to talk about applications which are very common and that webmasters would use frequently but that often end up putting a lot of strain on your web server making things run a lot slower. Applications which consume system resources appear to run quite nicely when they are not heavily used, in other words, if only one visitor (the webmaster) visits the site there will be no problem whatsoever, on the other hand, if more visitors start coming in (100 to 1000+) the application will start to create queries more frequently which will make the database server crash, which is the worst-case scenario.

Applications which have not been optimized to handle a lot of visitors can access your MySQL database too often in order to read and write information to and from it, this may sound like something very normal, and it is but, they are not handling the information in an efficient way, when this happens these applications may create overheads on your database tables which will make your site to become slower and in some cases non-responsive. Let's mention a couple of very common scripts that webmasters use in order to create and advertise their campaigns.

WordPress:

If you have been a blogger or the webmaster for more than a couple months then you will find this name to be quite familiar, as most of us know, Wordpress is a blogging script which is very easy to install, configure and use however, there is a darker side to all the beautiful things people have said about this script, if you are a system administrator or a savvy webmaster then it is common for you to access your website statistics and system information, this being the case, you might have noticed that Wordpress uses a lot of system resources in order to work, some people refer to this problem as "a system resource hog" -- in order to address this issue web developers have created caching scripts which lowered the load in the SQL database. Without using any scripts you may notice that for every page view WordPress creates several database queries will be executed, which is not good if you are planning to have thousands upon thousands of page views or if you're planning to run several blogs on the same machine.

PHP Ads-new which is now called OpenX:

This is a very popular ad server is in charge of rotating different banners and links related to the offers that you are trying to promote, the concept of this script is easy to understand, if you have several websites it would be a huge waste of time to try to manually change all of the banners on each of those sites when you decide to run a different offer, a more efficient way would be to have a centralized script which manages all of your banners, OpenX is the script which has been designed to do just that however if you have a website which gets a lot of page views then you might want to contact a programmer who will be able to optimize the script so that it won't crash your database by creating too many queries or table overheads.

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There's a large supply of hosting companies on the Internet just waiting for your business to come their way. A lot of them will be alike, offering the same or very similar hosting packages at several different prices. The services they offer may sound enticing and "just what you wanted," but one service you just have to put both your eyes on is the amount of disk space that will be available to you on your host's server.

This space has to be large enough to hold your data, photos and graphics, web site files, databases, ebooks, articles, blogs and anything else you might want to include. You certainly have to think about some of the space requirements you will need for the online projects and processes you will have on your website. If you choose way more disk space than you need, you will be throwing money in the waste basket. Not enough disk space will not run your processes adequately and might even cause your site to stop working and be unavailable to your customers.

Simple 10-page websites without a lot of graphics would take 1 MB of space, or less. A good number of hosting services start with anything from less than 1 MB to 5 MB of available space...more than enough for most smaller websites. This choice would be perfect for family sites mostly used to announce reunions, gatherings, births, graduations, etc. More than 1 MB of space (3-5 MB probably) would be needed if photos are planned for part of the family togetherness and sharing. If you planned a genealogy, family history, database on your site, for instance, you have just left the "simple" stage.

A larger site of 25-30 pages, with some pictures and graphics, maybe some ebooks, articles or tables of the available resources onsite...and possibly a small database of customer or visitor information, would require 2-3 MB as a bare minimum, leaving some room for light expansion. Just remember that pictures, graphics and databases require large amounts of disk space, and choose a large enough disk space package to more than cover what you plan to do. If you don't, your photos, graphics and databases won't load and your site might just freeze. If your estimate is 3-5 MB of needed space, it would be a good idea to choose the next highest package offered.

A more complex site of approximately 100 pages, with lots of graphics and JavaScript functions on most pages, including lots of text, could be 5 MB or more, depending on the size of the graphics. A site like this one would need a considerable amount of future expansion room (you know you will need it), so a disk space package in the 15-20 MB range would be a safe choice.

Finally, a complex commercial site with graphics and a database of 500-1000 products and maybe a second database of customers or replacement parts, would need far more disk space than all the other options put together. Databases just eat up disk space like candy and the more data entered into it, the larger it gets each day. You will need ample expansion room in order to keep your business running smoothly. Graphics can do the same thing. While your logical disk space estimate might be in the 50-100 MB range, 500 MB would be much safer to select.

Dan Thompson is a veteran website designer and has used numerous web hosts in his time. Dan specializes in writing web host reviews, his latest article is a Hostmonster Review. You can view Dan's latest web hosting review at http://www.hostmonster-the-review.com