You Owe it to Yourself to Read the Four Insider Secrets for Choosing the Best Website Hosting Provider.

You've got a great idea for a website and now you need to take the next step: RELIABLE HOSTING.

Reliable Hosting is MISSION CRITICAL! Sure, you can get hosting space just about anywhere now - 400 GIGABYTES of storage for 4.99/month, but haven't you found the old adage to be true: "You get what you pay for"? There three critical things you need to think about before you get your hosting space and the first isn't whether they brag about a 99.9% uptime guarantee as important as that is or that they are the lowest cost provider. No, the truly critical issues are uptime speed, data redundancy, and support / service quality.

Is the Service Fast?

Uptime Speed first refers to the quality and number of connections your hosting provider has to the internet. Most good hosting providers have at least four OC3 internet connections (OC3 = faster than T1 or in laymans terms, blindingly fast). Powerhouse Hosting now boasts ten T1 and OC3 connections. This means that if one or two or even three service providers had a disconnect issue, you, and more importantly, your customers wouldn't even know there was an outtage.

Uptime Speed also refers to maintaining electricity to the server banks. Again, Powerhouse like most providers, maintains 4 gasoline powered generators in the event of electrical power outtage in our area. If the power goes out, our backup systems "kick in" and maintain constant electrical uptime.

There are other things that contribute to Uptime Speed including keycard protected entries to the server banks, so that no one without explicit company access is able to physically handle the servers. This would protect your data from hardware theft and critical data loss.

The Single Most Important Issue to Consider

All of these are important and again, most hosting providers provide this level of Uptime Speed, but the question you must ask yourself is, how can a hosting provider only charge $4.99/mo. for all of these services? Here is where Uptime Speed becomes critical: How many users are those "cheap" hosting providers loading onto each server in order to offer this up front cost advantage? You see, they can do all of the things we've mentioned above, but if they're selling space for five bucks a month you can bet they're loading down their server(s) with thousands of customers. And if you have thousands of customer websites hosted on one server and each website is getting one thousand hits a day this will slow down the server to a crawl. And, if the server speed slows down to a crawl, how many prospects are going to wait around for your website to load when they could just as easily click the "Back" button and find another vendor with whom to do business?

Powerhouse Hosting dynamically allots each hosting account on each server based on the hosting account's needs eliminating the this speed issue. This means that we are dedicated to providing true Uptime Speed & Reliability.

The Database Backup Trick! Don't be Fooled.

After Uptime Speed & Reliability, I would think that Data Redundancy is high on the list of important issues. Now, this is something that all hosting providers offer, but be sure that your provider is actually backing up your site as often as they said they would. Because often the hosting provider makes the claim of "Daily Server Backups", but in reality what they mean is that daily backups can be done. The trick here is that they include a backup program in your control panel and they expect you to do your own backups. Now, sure that would be fine I suppose if they told you that it was your responsibility but often they do not.

Powerhouse Hosting, in addition to backup programs available with each hosting account, does nightly server backups to secondary server banks specially used only for data backup. This means that your data will be safe if something were to happen to the server it is on. We value your data.

Step-by-Step Help and Advice

The last but possibly the most important thing to remember when choosing a hosting provider is how the provider will treat you. You are the customer. You are paying Powerhouse Hosting to provide you, not only with great hosting for your website or online application, you are paying us to provide you with the support and information necessary to make your website venture a success, online and off.

On this point there are things to look for when shopping for support. Dont just go with a web hosting company that has a nice website. Drill through their site to see what support they offer. If they have a user's forum or a Frequently Asked Questions page, or a set of Flash-animated or textual tutorials to help you with whatever challenges arise on your Website Project Build-out. Is there a telephone number, trouble ticket support desk or chat support link readily available?

If there's a way to contact other customers of the provider, ask how the provider takes support issues: By phone, email, web-based support desk, or web-based chat.

Powerhouse Hosting provides you, its customers, with a trouble ticket support system, web-based online chat, email support and telephone access options.

Don't Put Off Your Hosting ... You're armed and ready now!

I sincerely hope that you will keep these three critical issues in mind as you continue your search for a hosting provider. It has been a privelege to share this information with you and I hope that if there is any way that Powerhouse Hosting can serve you, whether as a hosting account provider, or as an onine resource helping you make the most intelligent decision possible, that you will find blessing and success at the end of your website implementation efforts.

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