Choosing the Right Host for Your Site When choosing a host for your website, there are both subjective and objective aspects to consider. Many of the objective aspects are covered in the hundreds of articles that have already been written, but less often will you find the subjective aspects; those that are driven more by feelings and perception or your specialized needs.
There are many characteristics that you should generally expect all web hosts to include:
1. High Availability: All the features in the world are worthless, if your site is not available when your visitors try to access it. This incorporates many different components. Do they use quality servers and hardware? Do they have multiple redundant connections to the Internet? Do they have a lifecycle management program in place to ensure that you are not being hosted on a server built in 1987? (Most data centers plan for servers to have a 3 – 4 year lifecycle.)
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Getting the most out of your mail accountEmail is the lifeline of any online business, offering a cost effective method of communication over the Internet. If you have an online presence and/or business it is essential that you have your own mail server - a mail server is a site on the web where you can have your own personal mail box. With a mail server you can send and receive mail to just about anyone on the Internet. However there is a lot more to having a mail account then just sending and receiving mail, such as auto-responders, forwarders, aliases, mailing lists and catch all mailboxes.
Aliases Make sure that you can set up as many aliases as you like with your ISP. An alias is another name for an email address or a number of addresses. Many ISP allow you to have multiple aliases such as sales@yourdomain.com and support@yourdomain.com.
Auto-responders An auto-responder is an automatically generated email message that provides static information to the recipient. For example, if an email is sent to one of your email addresses an email will be sent automatically to the sender of the email.
Forwarders Make sure you check with your ISP that you can set up forwarders. Forwarding is where different aliases can be forwarded to one or more email addresses. For example, if you have the email address info@yourdomain.com, you can set up a forwarder so that all emails sent to info@yourdomain.com are forwarded to your other email address sales@yourdomain.com.
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