How To Choose The Optimum Web Hosting
Set Up For Your Sites

This in depth tutorial talks through how to choose the right hosting set up for your business, it aims to help you understand many web hosting terms, and it even touches upon how you could potentially start your own web hosting service.

Web hosting may not be the most thrilling part of running an online business, but it's a real fundamental. Without it, you wouldn't have a website! I would suggest becoming familiar with the key points of web hosting to help you make the right decisions. Particularly, backups and data redundancy.

For example - I've heard of web hosting companies that don't keep back ups (or their backups are several days out of date), and only have one hard drive in each web server.

Then of course, one day the hard drive fails and all those customer websites are not only offline, but many of them have lost the latest version of their websites for good due to not keeping back ups on their home/work computer.

Again, not the most exiting of topics, but SO important... it may take a year, it may take ten years, but sooner or later all hard drives fail.

This tutorial was written by me a few years ago, and at that time there weren't really cloud services like Amazon AWS available, which is now a viable option for hosting some, if not much of your content (We use it on this site for hosting bandwidth intensive files like videos. As well as using Amazon AWS, this site is hosted with Pair.com and I've been with them since I started online.)