Dont Get Fooled by the Web Hosting Wolves in Sheeps Clothing!Are you looking for web hosting? If you want to set up a personal website, or a modest commercial one, you are probably in the market for an inexpensive shared hosting plan. Those entry-level plans may cost $5-10 per month, and often boast very generous features for that modest prize. However, the strong competition often causes the companies to oversell, and then have difficulties living up to their promises. And how do you go about telling the good ones from the bad?
Maybe you go to one of the many web hosting review sites. Those places may offer extensive listings of various web hosting companies and their features; which is certainly helpful. But be aware of the fact that these review sites are out there to make money by referring new customers to the hosting companies! Therefore, they tend to praise those companies that pay them the best. I used to be naive about these things, trusting the review sites. That was until I began some serious research on the subject myself. Were they really so good, those much-praised web hosting companies? Soon, I was able to uncover large amounts of customer testimonials that told a different story. It became clear that several very large and well-known web hosting companies had surprising amounts of negative customer ratings against them. There were many angry customers that related stories about incompetent or non-existent customer support, billing disputes where the company kept charging ex-customers after they had cancelled their accounts; and more. One may say that any company with many customers is likely to have a few that are hard to please. But in these cases, there were scores of reviews, and the majority was negative! Since certain hosting companies are known to prosecute those who have criticized them in public, I will not mention any names here. In conclusion: I advice anyone looking for a reliable and honest web hosting provider to be very careful and not put too much trust in the web hosting ratings commonly found at hosting review sites and similar places. Also be aware that the customer feedback published by the web hosts themselves on their sites is of course filtered - and may even be faked. I am a researcher, an artist, and a web developer. On my website, www.TheHostingFinder.com, I have gathered some information on the good type of web hosts - the kind that has a majority of happy and satisfied customers. I hope this may be of some help to people looking for good web hosting.
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Small Business Package
BanPro NET
January 10, 2005 BanPro NET announces the addition of a "Small Business Package" to it's web hosting services. Specializing in small and home based business web services since 2000, this package is the result of careful research into the basic needs and demands of small business hosting clients. There's plenty of server capacity for a website to grow from and tons of additional free software targeted towards the small and home business all at a very affordable rate. This package is intended to not just meet a client's needs, but also to help (the often non-technical) customer in overcoming the many challenges that building a successful small business website comes with.Details on this new Small Business Package can be found at www.banpro.net
--- :About BanPro NET: BanPro NET first began providing web services in 2000, with only a single server in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The day that first server went online, Scott Bannon, the owner of BanPro NET used a black Magic-Marker to write the following message on an office wall; "To provide high quality products and services. To treat each customer as a good friend. To be an asset to our community. This is the BanPro NET philosophy."
Staying true to that philosophy, BanPro NET has been rewarded with a steady growth of clients and respect for the reputation it's acquired as a leader in providing quality service and customer support.
With web servers now located in six Data Centers and on two different continents, BanPro NET offers a full range of online solutions for small and home based business clients.
Visit the company web site at www.banpronet.net for more information.
Editorial Contact: Sales & Marketing sales@banpro.net
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How Much Hosting Space Do You Need?Many web hosts try to sell you a large amount of web hosting space that then costs you a lot each month. However, you may not need this much space. Have you ever calculated just how much disc space (MB) your web site uses? Do you really need an expensive hosting solution for your web site?
For my first web site, I purchased 20mb of disc space and wondered if this would be enough as I added pages to it. Well, recently I checked the size of this site which had grown to over 20 pages. To my surprise the size was only 3,269KB. This means it only uses a little over 3Mb of disk space.
Most of my friends sites also only use 2-3Mb for their sites. Therefore it is not necessary to purchase a large amount of space for a small site (if 20 pages = 3Mb, then 20Mb = 140 pages approx). Are you paying TOO much for the actual space you need?
How Do You Calculate The File Size Of Your Web Site? 1. First you need to understand how file size is measured. The smallest unit on a computer is a bit. One bit is one electronic on or off pulse. 8 bits strung together make one byte. One byte of information can put a letter, such as "B" on your screen.
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