Choosing the Right Web Hosting Partner for Your Web Business

Investing in web properties and web businesses is definitely rewarding today.

With the ever-growing eCommerce market and ever-expanding Internet business marketplace, owning and investing in an online business is very lucrative.

Web estate - a portable real estate

Web estate - the term I use referring to web property - is indeed a portable real estate. It is a investment property with a perk - you can actually move then wherever and whenever you want.

What I mean by ‘moving’ is actually changing web hosting.

In a layman’s term, web hosting is a service that offer you high-capacity servers to ‘host’ your websites. You can either rent a certain amount of space on the server, or rent the whole server for you, of course with a different monthly payment amount.

Choosing the right web hosting is important

It is apparent that choosing the right web hosting partner is crucial in owning and developing your web properties and businesses.

What to consider in choosing one?

  1. The server reliability
    Usually measured by uptime, that is, how much time will the server stay up. It is common today to guarantee a 99.99 per cent uptime.
  2. The reputation
    How many happy customers do the web hosting company have? Does the company host clean, non-illegal websites (having a ‘bad neighbourhood’ will affect your websites in the eyes of search engines)?
  3. The customer support
    Always look for web hosting company that offer fast response and exceptionally helpful answer to your inquiry.

Web hosting tips for non-techie web business owner

As a non-techie person, I can suggest you the following tips:

  1. Choose an affordable cpanel web hosting. Cpanel is a widely used web hosting known for is user-friendliness and reliability.
  2. Whenever your budget allows, consider having a dedicated server, that is, renting the whole server for you, and use it to host all your web properties and businesses for ease of management.
  3. Hire a techie person to help you manage your websites technical issues.

Happy investing and business building!

Ivan Widjaya
Web estate investor

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Author profile pictureIvan Widjaya is the Owner/Editor of Noobpreneur.com. He is a web property investor, blogger and web property maker, and currently managing and running websites and blogs on various topics under the brand name of My Web Estate.

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Published on: August 19th, 2008
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  1. I always try and go for a good value/affordable cPanel hosting, also one with “unlimited domains” so I can host at leasy 4 - 5 projects in the same place. This is much better value for money than a host that makes you pay for each site you host.

  2. Hi,

    That’s absolutely right. That way, you can also less management hassle for having several sites in one account.

    Thanks for leaving your comment :)

  3. Jennifer says:
    August 20, 2008

    cPanel hosting is the way to go it’s so much easier to use. I will never host my sites without it it’s the best.

    What is RoR? I have been hearing about this but I’m not sure what it is.

  4. Jennifer,

    I agree - I’ve tried many, but Cpanel is the most convenient and reliable of all…

    RoR is a Resource of Resource - in the form of ror.xml (so it’s an xml file). RoR is pretty much like Sitemap - it lists and explains whatever found on your site/blog.

    Having RoR in your root folder will help search engine to better understand your site/blog (hence will help your placement in search engine result pages).

    There are actually tools that help you creating an automatic RoR for your site/blog. Just type ‘RoR generator’ on you favourite search engine, and you will see tons of helpful sites in creating RoR file.

    I hope it helps.

    Cheers!

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