5 Burning Questions You Should Have Answered Before Buying a Web Hosting Plan

Buying web hosting services is an important step to successfully launching or managing a website. Be sure to include these 5 questions while you interview for the best partner.

 

 

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Host 1:    00:00    Podcasting from southern California, this is On The Net, your go-to for everything you need to know about how to get your business online and keep it there—brought to you by Lunarpages. We’ll help you navigate the mystifying ins and outs of doing business in today’s digital era. From web hosting to ecommerce to security and protection, if it has to do with your online presence, we’ve got it covered.

Host 2:    00:30    Hello everyone. Welcome to “On The Net,” where it’s all about your online presence. Thanks for joining us! This podcast is designed to make doing business online easy for web designers, developers, bloggers and online businesses of every shape and size. Whether you are new to buying web hosting or running a website, this podcast show will be able to answer your most burning questions. Buying web hosting services is an important step to successfully launching or managing a website.  As with most any business purchase, you will want to do your homework before choosing a partner. After all, every business has different needs so it’s never a one-size-fits-all purchase. For example, some businesses will be interested in buying web hosting that allows them to have plenty of space so that they can expand your bandwidth or storage capabilities. While other businesses may feel that UX is most important for them.

Host 2:    01:21    In today’s podcast episode, we will introduce 5 burning questions you should have answered before buying web hosting.  While we will only cover 5, there are many other important things you should ask your potential hosting partner that are specific to your business needs.  Start by asking about space.  Does the company have space or storage limits. The amount of space that you have access to is important when it comes to buying web hosting services. Think through your content assets and the goal of your website.  If you have a lot of video or audio content, for example, you will need to have ample space to upload your content without worrying about having limitations to space. You may also want to host more than one website so be sure to ask if that is a possibility and if there will be space issues if you host both sites within the same plan.   There are plenty of options when buying web hosting such as shared or managed hosting plans so don’t settle for less than what you think you need.

Host 2:    02:15    Take a look at the options for each plan and look for the features that are important to you before choosing. Also, while you’re talking about storage limits and space, bring up bandwidth requirements and limits.  Bandwidth has to do with the amount of server data that you can stream from your server and includes in its calculation the amount of data that can be transmitted in a certain time frame. If you have a digital device, bandwidth is expressed in BPS or “bits per second.” In analog terms,