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Guidelines in Choosing a Web Hosting Service
For someone who wanted to start a website for the first time, choosing a web hosting service may be quite tricky. But it doesn’t have to be. You just need to know what your website needs are and you would surely find a suitable web hosting plan that is right for you and your budget.
Here are some factors to help you evaluate your website needs
Paid or free hosting service
If you wanted to start a personal website, you may opt for a free hosting service. Most free hosting plan has a limited web space and bandwidth. You might also need to add advertisements from the company who is giving you the free service.
On the other hand, if you want a website for business, you should have a paid hosting service. This way, you can ask for technical support anytime you need it. You can also choose the amount of disk space and bandwidth that your website needs.
Webspace
Webspace is also termed as disk space or storage space. This basically works like your hard disk in your desktop computer. It pertains to the amount of data that your website can handle. For example if you are working with html pages and a few images, you can work with a disk space of no bigger than 1 GB. But if you are talking about massive internet applications or audio and video files then you need more space than that.
Bandwidth
Bandwidth would mean the amount of data transferred over an internet connection. If you think that your website would have frequent visitors, you would need to have a larger bandwidth. If you would offer downloadable and other applications that would be used within the boundaries of your website, you should definitely request for a large bandwidth.
Operating System
You also have a number of choices for an operating system that you can use for your website. You can choose from Linux, UNIX, Windows, or Apple.
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How Much did you pay for your website?
I would like to see your website and how much you paid for it including all graphic design , domain , hosting , the whole works. I also would like to know if the website you have is one that is designed professionally or a package you bought into and designed yourself. If your site was designed professionally also please tell me if you paid for the project as a whole or if you paid hourly rates or by the pages and what the cost of each of those were. I know that is a lot but with the economy the way it is right now , my girlfriend who I share expenses with just had to take a 400 dollar cut in pay , and so I really need to start rounding up more customers for my web design business , but my rates were never really set before , I just was cheap to help out who ever I was making the website for , now I need to be realistic …so please help.
Thanks in Advance
~Kadence~
ALL of your questions have NOTHING to do with how much you should charge. Here is the formula for success at consulting or any other service business.
Get a customer.
Get another customer. If this takes too long, lower your rates.
Keep going until you have too many customers.
Raise your rates.
Rinse and repeat.
A client might pay one company $10,000 for a website, and yet be unwilling to hire you for $500. It’s about marketing, reputation, sales skill, customer service, politics, and problem resolution (among other things).
Worry less about what to charge, and more about how to market your business and how to make your existing customers into evangelists.
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