ost Web hosts offer a available at any price. Today the
range of features to technology has caught up and some
attract potential Web hosts offer as much as 1,000
customers to their hosting plans. GB of data transfer free each
These features may include disk month. Again, the required amount
space, free bandwidth, e-mail is something a Web designer
boxes, auto responders, FTP should be able to predict.
access, templates, and more. The
customer must then decide which Some Web hosts also offer Web
of the available packages best analytics. This very useful
suits their needs. service provides an insight into
the way a Web site is being used,
The first requirement to consider showing the where the traffic is
is space. The Web site will originating and the pages that
require a certain amount of disk are being read. It can even
space based on the volume of display the amount of time a
content it will contain, with visitor is spending on the site
concern given for potential and the search engines that are
future growth. If the site is not sending the traffic. While not
already designed, a designer usually provided for free, this
should be able to give a specific information is usually considered
target range to look for. invaluable to Web site owners.
The second big requirement is The disadvantage of this is that
bandwidth. It is absolutely the log files used to do traffic
critical to buy sufficient analysis take up valuable space.
bandwidth to cover the traffic With daily logs, it is possible
generated by the Web site. In the download and delete them every
early years of the Internet there day, but if monthly logs are
simply wasn’t very much bandwidth preferred it will not be possible
to delete them until the end of If the Web site is going to be a
each month. It’s important to business site, auto responders
clarify where the Web host will should be required. This software
store these files or several allows for visitors who show
megabytes of log files may begin interest in the site to have and
crowding the Web site’s automated reply sent to them.
designated storage space as Additionally, the inclusion of
information builds up. forwarding aliases can be useful
by allowing email to be sent to a
Also check to see where the filtering program for sorting
storage for the e-mail boxes will prior to final delivery.
go. If it will go to the same
limited area provided for the Web Finally, FTP access is another of
site a maximum limit for each the things a host absolutely must
mailbox should be set. This will provide. Very few Web hosts
prevent incoming mail from charge for FTP access, since
causing the site to exceed the without it hosting of most
storage limit, resulting in an content becomes very difficult if
overage fee. not impossible.
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