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What is Business Hosting - 2007/05/05 02:26
When it comes to looking for business web hosting you need to look for the providers with the best reputation and the best quality equipment.

Before you start looking you need to decide exactly what you will need with regards to disk space and bandwidth. If your site is going to have lots of traffic and visitors then you will need a guaranteed 100% uptime. In this case you should consider looking at choosing one of the larger multinational business web hosting companies who will mirror your site at 2 different locations so should one datacenter or a server go down the site will be still be available.

As you can imagine ensuring your site has 100% uptime and can cope with large amounts of traffic doesn't come cheap but trying to skimp on your hosting is a false economy. There have been a number of stories about large companies who chose the cheap business web hosting option rather than the more expensive hosting they should have paid for. One such company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing a new product and promoting it. Press releases were sent out and advertising space booked. Every advert and press release contained the website address. Unfortunately the initial rush of customers took the company over their bandwidth limit and all that most of the visitors initially saw was an account suspended notice. Not, I'm sure you'll agree, the best image to portray for a fledgling business.