Features Web Hosting Account Must Have
Before signing up for a Hosting Account make sure the hosting account has following features
a. Free Domain registration along with the hosting package.
b. Unlimited Domain Option - Web hosting account should have capacity to hold mulitple domains
c. Domain Forwarding - Domain forwading is useful to forward multiple domains to your main domain.
d. Disk space - Disk space depends upon your need. If you are planning to host multiple websites then you should have minium 5 GB Disk capacity.
e. Traffic Space - You should have a minimum of 50 GB has Traffic Space. You can increase the traffice space in future if needed.
f. Unlimited Websites - Some webhosting such as hostgator allows you to host multiple websites within a single shared hosting account.
g. PHP or ASP - It should have support for php scripting or asp scripting. Linux based servers supports php while windows based servers support ASP and Asp.net.
h. User friendly Control Panel
i. Automatic backup - Very useful when your files are corrupted or when you want to restore old files
k.Web Statistics - will be useful to find out geographical location of visitors, their ip address, the referring sites, which pages have more traffic etc.
l. Applications - Some good web hosting accounts provides already install applications for blogging, chatting, forums, etc.
Following are the web hosting accounts I recommend
GoDaddy - Starts with $4.95 per month. Domain is just $1.99 along with the hosting package. Also got premium hosting for $6.99 per month, in which you can host unlimited website. Service is good.
Hostgator - Starts with $6.95 per month, Free domain registration, excellent service
Lonex - 15 GB Disk Space, $4.95 per month, Free domain registration, Free setup and online website builder included.