Just like when we are choosing a partner for our business, we should pay extra care when we are about to choose a web hosting service. Before we choose a web hosting service, we should determine whether we want to buy free or paid web hosting service. Well, choosing a free web hosting might not be a big problem because we are not spending even a cent for the web hosting service. On the other side, selective action should be done if we are going to use paid web hosting because paid web hosting can be quite expensive.If paid web hosting is our chosen web hosting type, then make sure to pay attention to the access speed and reliability. The minimum uptime guarantee should be more than 99%. Why uptime guarantee become so important? Well, personally, I cannot imagine if I have a web hosting with less than 99% uptime warranty because it means there is a big risk to find the server not working. Not only it will be so upsetting, but also disturb our business income. Data transfer or bandwidth  is another consideration. Estimate our bandwidth need and don’t be easily tempted with unlimited bandwidth tag because such thing is impossible. Related to bandwidth, don’t forge to ask the webhost about the charge of the bandwidth per GB. It will influence our spending. Similar with bandwidth, we should never fooled by the unlimited disk space tag line. Make an estimation of the disk space we need, so we can determine the perfect disk space we need.

Consider about features like MySQL, telnet, FTP, Perl, PHP, SSI, and many others. Only choose web hosting that able to serve us the applications. Control panel, security, price, POP3, and specialization are other consideration. Make a comparison chart to find the best web hosting and don’t forget to read the faq to understand the companies and our responsibility.