| Before you sign up for your web hosting plan, there | | | | bad thing. However, you would have to ask the web |
| are a couple of questions that you would need to | | | | hosting company regarding the numbers. If you are |
| ask the company that you are planning to do | | | | looking for a hosting plan, then you would have to |
| business with. Here they are. | | | | ask about what their client per server ratio is. Choose |
| 1. How long has your business been operating? Do | | | | the company that would be able to fit your needs, |
| you have a Merchant Account which is all your own? | | | | and has the fewest clients per server. |
| Are you incorporated? | | | | 3. Do you permit SMTP POP3 email messages to be |
| These would be questions which would be able to | | | | received and sent from |
| give you an idea of the company's stability as well as | | | | The answer to this should be yes. There are a couple |
| the long-term continuation of the web hosting | | | | of web hosting companies which force you to send |
| service. These questions are essential as you do not | | | | your SMTP POP3 email messages from instead of |
| want to be dealing with a company that would be | | | | 4. If I would be going over the allotted bandwidth |
| disappearing on you. | | | | monthly, what would be the charges for each |
| 2. How many clients do you have per server? | | | | gigabyte? |
| This would depend on the web hosting company or | | | | The answer to this should be $0 to $2 for each |
| the hosting plan, as the server that your website is | | | | gigabyte. |
| hosted on could be a bit more packed that you | | | | 5. Are you offering any upgrades for accounts, and if |
| thought. A responsible and reliable web hosting | | | | yes, what would be the costs? |
| company would not be overstuffing the servers that | | | | A lot of web hosting companies give this information |
| they own or collocate. Oftentimes, sharing a server | | | | with every hosting plan. It would be good to request |
| with a couple of other companies is not an entirely | | | | for this information if you cannot find them. |