Criteria To Use in Selecting Your Ideal Web Hosting Provider

1. Customer Support

1.1. phone

1.2. email

1.3. chat

1.4. which days and times?

1.4.1. what time zone?

2. Disk Space

3. Monthly Bandwidth

4. Monthly Payments

4.1. not yearly ones

5. Money-back Guarantee

6. Monthly Backups

7. FTP Support

7.1. how many FTP accounts?

7.2. how easy to setup?

8. Support for Perl, PHP, MySQL

9. Support for your CMS

9.1. Wordpress

9.2. MovableType

9.3. Drupal

9.4. etc

10. Email Management and Features

10.1. email management interface

10.2. number of email inboxes you can create

10.3. spam filtering

11. Ease of Use and Features for Admin CP (Control Panel)

12. Online Reputation

12.1. what do others say about this company?

13. Guaranteed Uptime

13.1. at least 99%

14. Log File Analysis