15 Aug 10 E-mail Hosting Selection – 3 Deciding Factors

E-mail has long been stripped of its novelty factor. Nowadays it is as important for an individual as is the need to dress up, or may be the analogy I chose was not appropriate, but what the heck…you got the idea, isn’t it?

The point is e-mail is important, and for businesses doubly so. But do you know how to shop for an e-mail hosting provider? In the paragraphs following this one, you will read about three things you need to look for when shopping for an e-mail host

Protection

This is important. This is very important. Do you want me to write the “important” phrase one more time before you will believe how much important protection feature is in your e-mail host, or will you believe me in just one reiteration?

Make sure the e-mail host you are going to use provide, virus (including malware, spyware, trojan, spyware, etc.) identity theft, privacy, and SPAM protections. Each one of them is must-have for an e-mail host, or else you will risk losing your important data.

Disk space

There are two sides to disk space. One is how much disk space you are getting per e-mail ID — go with the one that offers at least 1 or 2 GBs of space, and another side of disk space asks you to find out how many e-mail addresses you can open in one hosting account.

You should go for the one that gives you option to open unlimited e-mail accounts, each with 1 or 2 GBs of space. This will help you have different IDs for different employees, organization, function. Because of this feature you will not have to provide one email id (info@yourbusiness.com) for sales enquiry, support enquiry, price enquiry, and technical enquiry.

Price

If you thought this is not important than think over this twice. Price is very important, and more so is opportunity cost. If you can get all these features in $1/ month than why would you waste $5/ month? It does not need an Einstein to understand that the $4/ month saving could be used for better thing.

There are e-mail hosts that give you all the above features at as little as $1/ month. Don’t believe it? Check out: Gossimer’s e-mail hosting product and you will come to believe it.

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24 Jul 10 3 Things to Look for Before Buying a Web Hosting Account

You have a great idea, an appropriate solution for your customers’ problems, and you got it converted in an award-winning product that any newbie can put to use. But, you will still fail, if you have not selected a safe, secure, stable, and reliable web hosting company to deploy your solution and website for your customers to access without any delay.

A web host provides you with a foundation for your web-based business to stand on. The quality of foundation will determine how long your business will stand in the situation when you will witness the torrent of traffic to your website.

Choosing a web host company is one of the most important decisions (if the not the most important) you will take in the process of launching any web-based business – be it even a simple blog. In this article, I will talk about 3 things you should look after when buying a web hosting plan.

Disk space and bandwidth

Disk space refers to the storage space you will get on a web hosting server when you buy a plan, and bandwidth refers to the data transmission rate (amount of data transferred in a month from your server to your visitors’ computer when they access your website).

Find a web hosting company that offers maximum disk space and bandwidth at the competitive price. Ideally, you should go with the web hosting company that offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth, for you would not like to be charged when a certain number of people have visited your website, nor you will like your website to remain offline because it has reached certain limit.

Data center

Among other things, the speed at which your website will be delivered to your customer depends upon the proximity of your server to the end user. You should, therefore, pay attention to the fact that where the server is located. Is it located near your customers?

How can you ascertain that?

Well, you can ascertain that by choosing a web hosting company that has globally located data centers. If your web host has a globally located data centers then chances are they may put your website on its server located in India, if bulk of your customers are coming from there.

Support and uptime

No matter how great a web hosting service is, it will at times fail – even Titanic sank. But the beauty and strength of a web hosting company lies in the fact that how it recovers its service like. That is to say how well it fixes the error when you have one.

Go for the web hosting company that has a huge knowlegebase full of articles and tutorials to help you solve your problem on your own, and a knowledgeable support team that responds as soon as they get your question. You need this to ascertain that your website does not remain down for more than couple of minutes.

Talking of the downtime, I must tell you that do not choose a web hosting company that does not guarantee 99.99% uptime.

You should not go for any web hosting company, no matter how hyped it is, if the company fails to meet above criteria.