by Sean Ray

Created on: March 05, 2007   Last Updated: September 02, 2011

Below we will discuss about how to find a web hosting for the small business companies. We will start from choosing a best domain name to how to decide the web hosting requirement. Finally, I will introduce where to find a small business web hosting plan.

1. Choose a Name for Small Business Web Site

First, you will need to think about a domain for your company site, choose something that will make sense to your business. Unless you want to spend a lot of money to advertise your web site, you will need to think about a domain name related to your product or service. Please refer to How to Select the Best Domain Name for more.

2. What kinds of Web Hosting You Need for Small Business Web Site

1) Basic Requirement of Web Hosting Plan for a Small Business Web Site

Basic requirement will discuss about the general feature of Small Business Web Hosting, such as disk space, band width, reliability, etc. Those are the basic feature you need to think about when you want to hosting a web site.

• For small company site, a shared Linux Server web hosting plan is the best choice unless you really want to use ASP or .Net to build you site, spending more time and more money. About reliability, 99.9% up time is expected. Don't let your in-stable web site hurt your business. And high access speed is also required.

• Disk space will heavily depend on what you want to put online, but normally, you will use less than 100M. You might see most of the web hosting companies provide you huge disk space like 10g, 50g. Just take it, disk space doesn't cost you too much.

• For Email account, 100 email box will be enough and most of web hosting companies will give you it if their plan target at small business market.

• Need the basic e-commerce cart support, such as: Shopping Cart, Paypal, or SSL support.

• What about the server location? Place the server close to your targeted visitor, even you are not in that country. Such as, if you want to sell something in USA, it would be better to find a web hosting company in USA, so that your visitor can access the server faster, it also a way to show your respect to your customer.

• Usually you will get a free domain in web hosting plan, and if you only want one web site, I would like suggest you to get a web hosting plan that only host one site. You won't get it for free.

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