We have to consider many things while hosting a website. The most important things to be noted have been posted here (click to read) in this blog already. As I have promised, I will write more for those who are looking for a great web hosting service.
Hosting Control Panel, is the thing that you should be looking for. A Web Hosting Control Panel is similar to that of windows or linux control center and is the place from where you can control all your web services related to your websites. Imagine a car without steering or gears or brakes, have no speed-meter, no control on your car! Similarly, you must have the maximum possible control over your web hosting account. It may not always be possible to get all the facilites that a web server can offer because all web hosting companies divide their services into several packages and control options vary by package to package. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced webmaster, look for at least the following things that you will be able to control from your hosting control panel.
Domain Features:
> You can host multiple domain
> Add New Domains from within your control Panel
> Modify DNS
> Modify Administrative Contacts
> Transfer the Domain to Another Web Registrar
Hosting Features:
> Web Based File Explorer from which you can easily access and manage all your files and folders without requiring a FTP software. This is useful because this obviously saves some of your bandwidth; this works because many web hosting file explorer has ability to zip/unzip files and execute the command within the server without requiring your bandwidth usage.
For example, you have zipped 100 MB files into a 650MB zip and uploaded it to the web server. It Saves 350MB of your bandwidth leaving room for more visitors. Though some hosting companies offer unlimted bandwidth, it can yet save you some times, too.
> Quota Management is another thing to consider. If you can assign quota to specific folders, monitoring them becomes easier for you. You need not to monitor manually who is exceeding their quota because with quota management a user need to manage files themselves
Email Features:
> You can add/remove or modify your email addresses easily. There should also have the modification option without having to delete the existing emails of a mailbox. This is crucial.
> You can add/remove mail forwarders
> Has features like filtering, spam protection, automatic folder selection
Website Statistics:
> There should be a visual representation of your visitor data, categorized into various types like ip, referrer, browser types, and many others
These are the basics. Most web hosting provider will give you some or all of these options yet I’m writing about these just for you can confirm about these features at your hosting providers control panel.
There are thousands of more options of which I am presently writing about and hope to publish them very soon.
