1. Check the company has a toll free (free phone) 24/7 number. You should be able to contact your host at all times. Make sure someone acutally picks up the phone!
2. Check how many sites are hosted per server. If there are hundreds of sites on the same server it may get very slow.
3. Find a website that is hosted by the company and see how fast theirs is.
4. Pay Monthly to avoid loss of payments if the company goes out of business

Hopefully we will add more to this page over time.

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SAVETEN or gb1 will get 10% off a domain name order

When you select a domain name, you will have to specify how many years you would like to register it for. When it your domain name is about to expire, the registrar you registered your domain with should send you emails reminding you.

Some TLDs such as .co.uk have a minimum registration of 2 years, most however allow you to register a domain name for a minimum of 1 year.

If your hosting company purchased the domain name for you, contact them about renewing the domain name.

You can check the expiry date of a domain name using a WHOIS tool such as the one provided here.

Find Reviews

Lookup the company on webhosting forums and on webhosting directories. If you find no reviews about the company or people have had bad experiences, you should look for a different company.

Research the Company

Find information about the companies website. You can do this by doing a whois lookup . You should look at the companies namesever. If a hosting company has the name server ns1.cheaphosting.net, they may just be reselling webhosting and not own their own equipment. Also look at when the domain name was registered, this will give you some information as to how long the company has been in operation.

Pay Monthly

Many web hosting companies offer 2 months free if you pay anually rather than monthly. It may be more expensive, but if you get into problems with the hosting, you can leave the company without sacrificing too much.

Do they keep up to date?

Ask the company to send you a link to their phpinfo page. This will tell you what versions of PHP and Apache they are using (assuming the webserver is apache and they support PHP). You can see the latest releases of PHP here

Domain names are quite cheap. You can get them for less than $15USD. You purcahse domain names from a registrar. Before purchasing a domain name, make sure that they are ICANN accredited. We reccommend GoDaddy or Namecheap.

Godaddy is very cheap however some users have found their support to have long waiting and response times.

Namecheap currently offer WHOIS protection for free and accepts PayPal. however they are very slightly more expensive than other registrars.

If you exceed your bandwidth or space resrictions some hosts may charge you extra. Some companies charge alot if you go over your bandwidth and some do not. Read the Terms of Service very carefully to find out about any additional fees. Some websites also moniter the CPU usage.

The most common fees are;

• Setup Fees
• Bandwidth Fees

Make sure you know what the cost is before you sign up.