Well the last two posts have addressed two of the threee must haves for anyone looking to create an online business. The third is hostiong for your web site or sites. Yes you need some type of site no matter what the ad copy says.

Yes you will most likely need more than one. If you are just starting out that may seem a daunting task but believe me that will change. I average at least a couple new sites each month and will quickly put up a site for a single promotion.

Now there are a few things that I look for in hosting. First is cpanel as it makes everything much easier to deal with and has more features. It must have multiple MySql data bases. You don’t need to understand why but most scripts for things like a blog, a forum, a help desk etc. need their own data base.

Finally up time and service response time are key. Hey, this is my business and if the server is off line I am effectively out of business. My website is my store or office and having it available is extremely important to me.

This is one of the reasons I have had a site on Kiosk for years. It is almost always on line (nothing is 100%) and I can reach someone 24/7/365. This is extremely important to me. They have an online conference room where I can get help during the day but more important I can reach somone at 1 am Sunday morning.

I know that is true because the only time I had a major problem that is when it happened. I was getting ready for bed and went to check something and got the dreaded site not found on my browser.

Well here the hard drive on the server it was on went bad. This can happen to any piece of equipment. Well at 1 am on a Sunday morning I hit their pager and had someone get back to me within 5 minutes. Wish it would have been that quick to fix it but having a new hard drive installed and everything added back to it takes time. I was running about 9am the next morning and for a hardware problem in the early hours of a weekend I was quite happy. At least as happy as you can be when Murphy gets you.

They do supply some other tools which are quite helpful but do not use their autoresponder for the reasons stated in the article on Aweber. It is an add on for them and they don’t take care of keeping it clean like the major autoresponders do. The delivery is fair to poor instead of excellent and that will cost you a lot of money as you grow.

For webhosting though their service and support are second to none so they get a 5 star recommendation.

The Evil Twin

Well I hate to agree with the wuss but there service is up there. Their price could be better and you know me I am cheap, cheap, cheap. Really wish their delivery rate was better cause then their overall price would be cheap too.

Hate to do it but except for price they get a good rating here. Don’t you just hate when we agree. Damn I am getting soft.

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