Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Tips To Choose Domain Name and Hosting

Are You plan to build website ? Here we offer some tips how to name your website.

The main Issues are....
  • Don't choose domain name like competitor website.It will spread the traffic to your competitor.
  • Choose shorter domain name.Then only its easy to remember
  • If you are going to choose longer domain name use keywords for your longer domain name related to your website.
  • Don't choose domain name with hyphens. (Example http://www.my-domain-name.com
  • Try to Pick domain name with *.com Extension
  • If you choose domain name for commercial purposes don't choose *.org Extension.This will confused to the visitors.
  • Don't pick the domain name started with "the" phrase.The visitors usually forget the "the"phrase
  • Choose the domain name which targeted your primary product.For Example if you are selling products like mobilephones name your domain name like http://www.mobilephones.com This will help your visitor to remember your domain name.
  • Don't choose domain name related to familier brand name.

I think the above tips are very useful for everyone before start picking the domain name.Now let us see how to choose web hosting.

Tips to choose your web hosting

Here is the things you remember before to choose your web hosting.

  • Dont' choose Free webhosting providers.Any time they can withdraw these offers also they are very keen to promote their products through their offered hosting space.Now days paid hosting gets very cheaper.So better get paid domains make sure support after sales.
  • Check out their server performance wheather they offer good service and good uptime.Most of the good hosting providers maintain their servers 99.9% Uptime.Prefer hosting providers like go daddy or network solutions.
  • Get the domain as much you want.Don't get more space.If you plan your website with 5 -6 pages 5MB web hosting is enough.Don't waste your money to get more space.If it needs in future you can upgrade easily with web hosting providers.
  • Make sure the hosting providers which offer FTP access.Its very useful for begineers.
  • Get the reliable and speed hosting providers.Otherwise you lost your visitors.
  • Apart from the above thing Bandwidth is the main issue.Did you have 10 page website Each page have around 15KB with 1000 Unique visitors everyday prefer bandwidth between 1GB - 3GB.This will make sure your website always available.
  • Get your webhosting with control panel.This will make sure you freedom to handle your domain options and futures.
  • Get you hosting with minimum 2 database and make sure to create subdomain in future.

The above information are very useful for begineers who plan to build personal or official website.