Website Hosting Tips

If you are just opening your first website, don't buy into all the bells and whistles offers. Most legimate web hosting companies will allow you to upgrade server space and bandwidth as your website grows. This website is hosted on our least expensive hosting plan and it serves our visitors quite well.

Even our "starter" hosting plans include PHP for server side scripting and MySql databases for owners who want to run a shopping cart.

We like hosting plans that use PHP/MySql because they are free, open-source programs and many free scripts are available to enhance your visitor's experience.

For our money, we want to host our web designs on servers that are not overloaded with too many websites running on them, because they will deliver pages quite slowly at peak use times.

Here is our list of "basic needs" for any starter hosting plan

• A starting web hosting cost below $6 a month
• FTP (File Transfer Protocall) access
• PHP/MySql
• At least 2 GB of server space
• At least 250 GB of data transfer (bandwidth)
• At least 5 Email Accounts or Forwards