Choosing The Right Web Hosting Company

This is a very sensitive topic considering the role a plays in your joy or regret of investing money in owning a website.
There are a lot of web hosting companies out there of which 80% can really mess you up. You must take to heart that not all web host out there are actually web hosting companies.
Web Host and Web Host resellers: There is a difference between a web hosting company and a reseller

Web Hosting companies: These are companies that own the hosting server that are used to allocate web space in fractions on request to prospective buyers or site owners for hosting their websites. These companies are under obligation to render support directly to you in the time of need.

Web Host Resellers: these are companies who do not directly own the servers but are given a privileged right to sale web space allocated to them at any price of their choice. You do not have any contact with the actual hosting companies as their identities are only known by the reseller.

The reseller offers all the support you might require while the main host renders support to the retailer
Note that some Resellers are actually more effective in support than the so called main hosting companies. This may be attributed to the fact that they are still small and need the customers to increase for them to grow. Whatever the case, as long as it keeps our sites up and running, we are okay.

This does not exonerate the very BAD ones. Many of the resellers don’t even know what the business of web hosting is all about before proceeding to be a reseller.

Look out for the following when choosing a Web Host: UPTIME and CUSTOMER SUPPORT
visit www.webzoneit.com/webhosting.htm to get good insight on this Topic

Yes niyyie,
The price and payment should be considered but most times people place the price ahead of this other things I mentioned earlier. without the knowledge of the Uptime and Customer support, you will not be able to peg the price as some can deceive you with low prices but can't givegood result, also some make the payment seem easy but can't keep proper track of your bank payment made to them.
I had an issue once where I payed for some domain names into the bank account of a hosting company but two weeks after sending them the bank payment details; my domain account with them was still reading unpaid.
This takes us back to the customer support, I mentioned earlier.

Hi fransois_1
Thanks for the info on web4africa, I will check them out. if they really as good as you say, then they will be included on our list of recommended host at www.webzoneit.com/webhost.htm

If you have nice write ups on web design and hosting that could benefit the public feel free to forward it to me at the email address in the site www.webzoneit.com
But please include Author details
Cheers

Ok

hi
Am so sorry the right link is:
http://www.webzoneit.com/webhosting.htm

For my typographical error earlier on.