{"id":144,"date":"2009-07-25T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smarttofinish.com\/Blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-07-25T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:00:20","slug":"what-to-look-for-when-choosing-a-hosting-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smarttofinish.com\/Blog\/2009\/07\/25\/what-to-look-for-when-choosing-a-hosting-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Know what to look for when choosing a hosting company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to look for when choosing your hosting company? This will all depend of course upon your specific needs, but here is my <em>revised<\/em> short list of the things I look for when choosing a hosting company:<\/p>\n<p>1) Customer support via telephone. Are you required to only use a help desk or email to get support? For me personally, I like to pick up the phone and talk to someone who can assist me.<\/p>\n<p>2) CPanel &#8211; do they have CPanel or another user friendly control panel interface? This can be helpful especially for those who are not very technical.<\/p>\n<p>3) Fantastico &#8211; or the ability to easily install wordpress and other ecommerce and blog applications.<\/p>\n<p>4) Backups. Do they backup your server? If so, how often do they back it up, how long is the data retained by them and is there a fee for them to restore.<\/p>\n<p>and newly added #5 &#8211; drumroll please&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>5) Email distribution limitations&#8230;what are they? You may not have a large list now, but hopefully soon you will and then will your growth be at their mercy? (learned the hard way with this one :))<\/p>\n<p>To Your Online Success!<\/p>\n<p>Amber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to look for when choosing your hosting company? 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