A web hosting package should include facilities to host both your website and its related email. Make sure you have assessed all your potential requirements before committing yourself to a hosting company. As with most things related to the development of your website, there is a whole range of things to consider before making this decision.

After you feel comfortable with the level of support a provider offers, consider what features are available. A basic understanding of what you know (and what you don't) will help direct your choice. If creating a site from scratch is intimidating, look for a provider that offers free website building software. This will save you from knowing html. You will also need a domain name to get your site up and some Shared Web Hosting providers even offer these for free. A free domain name should not be the main selling point for which provider you choose. After all, you can purchase a domain name from anyone from $2.99 - $12.99/year.
 

How to keep the hosting industry's growth is a substantial debate. Realizing the importance of this issue I can put in my thoughts into the discussion. Here are my suggestions and advice to new web hosting companies and especially for those who need to choose their new web hosting provider.

Which all brings me back to what is Affordable Web Hosting? I have my pages hosted at GVO and I pay a higher monthly cost than if I used certain other cheaper hosts.

It also comes with fantastico, cpanel. All this for about $109 annually which is pretty cheap. Please note this hosting plan is no longer available and is replaced with multisite dynamite plan. It is basically the same as my previous plan except for more diskspace and bandwidth. As I'm writing this, they have a promotion where you can get this hosting plan for 2 years at only $149 which I consider to be a good deal.

Beware of companies that can quote you a price almost without hearing any details of your project. Don't be afraid to ask lots of questions! Your Shared Web Hosting UK site represents a significant investment and you should get clear explanations of what is involved and how the project is priced. On the other hand you should also be ultra clear and specific about the process flow of your business. Remember, your designer might know little to nothing about your industry and without sufficient specifics from you, there can end up being unexpected costs when the designer has to rework the design and coding.

I am from the UK and a few years ago I would struggle to purchase products from the United States online. This was because most websites only accepted major credit cards, but I had a debit card and this was not always accepted. But this is less of a problem now that more companies are accepting PayPal.

Finally, don't change web host at inappropriate times. Changing web hosts can mean a lot of technical changes and even loss of data. Because of this, it becomes all the more important for you to think things through before deciding on a web host. You need to find one with whom you can partner with for a long time.