Website Hosting Solution - Part 2

Subdomains
A subdomain is a sub entity of your main Domain Name. For example, owning the domain name www.domain-name.com, you would be able to create a subdomain : www.sub1.domain-name.com . Usually web hosting providers allow their customers to create a certain number of subdomains.

Email Accounts, Auto responders, Forwarders
Most of internet service plans allows a certain number of email addresses. Having one for your website might be enough. If not, some web host provide several email accounts with the following formats : whatyouwant1@domain-name.com, whatyouwant2@domain-name.com etc...

Cron Jobs
That could be usefull if you are planning to execute an automatic script on a regular basis.

Recommended Web Hosting Services & Tools

FTP Accounts
If you are planning on hosting just a few pages, then you may not need ftp access. However, for more pages, ftp access will bring a lot in term of website development efficiency.

Available scripts
Depending on what you want do with your website, having access to some already programmed and ready to use script can be really time saving. Particularly, you will save time using counters scripts, clocks scripts, guest books scripts, shopping carts scripts, chat scripts, countdown scripts etc...

Traffic analizer tools
In order to create a successful website, you have to know who are the visitors coming to your pages. Traffic analizer tools are very useful for that since they will inform you about : what page refered your visitors to your website, what they typed on search engines, how long they stayed on your pages, from which page they left and more...

Read Forum, about blackouts etc...
Explore the web hosting provider website for any customer comments. Particularly, if you find a forum on the web host website, you could learn a lot about the quality of the services. Make a search for "blackout", "failure", "error" to find out more...

Conclusion
The best web host for your website is the one that will provide you only the services you need. Try to review all the items and decide which ones you will need for sure. There are lots of good web hosting providers outhere, competition is rough and it's good for customers.

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