Key Considerations for Choosing an Affordable Hosting

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Literally hundreds of companies offer web hosting, and it can seem like a minefield deciding which to go with. Following is a discussion of the key points you need to understand and consider when choosing an affordable hosting.


Every time a user connects to your website, your files are transferred across the internet to the user. Bandwidth refers to the number of bytes your website is sending across the internet. It can be given as a rate per day, month, or year.

For instance, if the average size of one of your web pages is 75KB including images, then if you get 100 visitors to your site per month and each visitor looks at 10 pages, you’ll need at least 75MB of bandwidth per month.


Web pages are small files that don’t take up much storage space, but other files, such as images, flash movies, or other video and audio files, used on your site may be quite large. So, choose a web hosting plan that offers unlimited disk space.

You can check how large your website is by simply looking at the size of the folder that it is in.


You need to consider two factors here: the size of mail box you are allowed, and the number of mailboxes you are given.

Some hosts provide you unlimited mailboxes but set a maximum amount of storage space. Some hosting allows you only a few mailboxes, but will allow a fixed amount for each mailbox.


Uptime refers to the percentage of time your web server is working and available for people to look at your site. You will generally see figures such as 99 percent uptime, which means that, on average, 99 out of every 100 minutes your site will be available.

But then that also means that your site might be down for 1 percent of the time i.e. 87.6 hours per year, or four days. So get a host that offers at least 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.


If you’re looking for a perfect web hosting company with all the above features, visit Gossimer that offers 99.99% uptime guarantee. For more information, Buzz at 1-8889024678 Or, log on to http://www.gossimer.com/


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