20 questions to consider when choosing webhost

The choice of the hosting account, is one of the essential steps for the assembly of any site on internet whether commercial or not, but it is vitally important in business.

20 questions to consider when choosing which plan to acquire:

• The number of domains that we have (preferably unlimited)
• If they have help desk support 24 hours 7 days a week for any inconvenience.
• If they make instant backups to protect the information.
• If they have up-to-date Antivirus software on the server to help you protect your website.
• If they guarantee that our site will be online by 99.9%
• How much hosting costs.
• If they have money back guarantee if we are not satisfied with the service. (45 days)
• Which platform they offering.(Linux or Windows)
• How much bandwidth company offering. (Preferably unlimited).
• How much web-space available. (Preferably unlimited).
• How many subdomains can have. (Preferably unlimited).
• How many FTP accounts can have. (Preferably unlimited)
• If they have the latest version of the database MySQL (version 5.1.51 or newer)
• How many MySQL accounts we can create. (Preferably unlimited)
• If it supports PHP (version 5.2.14 or newer at the time of writing this article)
• If it supports Cron jobs (this is important to install a custom autoresponder)
• How many e-mail accounts POP3 we have (preferably unlimited)
• If they offering spam-filters for your Email accounts (Preferably free)
• If they offering analytical report of our sites
• If they have the option of Fantastico in cpanel. (for one click installation of wordpress )