Choosing a Good Host

Choosing a good host may seem extremely difficult, but if you follow these pieces of advice, you can certainly find a host that would suit you extremely well. There are many ways to tell if you have found a good host.

First, you should make sure that they offer enough disk space for your website, so that you are able to host other sites if you own a domain and more importantly, store all the content and stuff that you want to have. They also should offer a sufficient amount of monthly bandwidth (which is how much information your sever can send), so that you don't have to worry about your site being shut down. The host of your choice should also have a good amount of e-mails and a suitable number of FTP accounts. Lastly, these hosts should allow the use of some basic products, such as PHP and MySQL, as it will allow you to do some things that you could not do without it, such as perform PHP includes and install forums and blogs, respectively.

Once you have found a suitable host, be sure to check some reviews of that hosting as well. If you do find a good host, but if they have poor customer service or a lot of downtime, it definitely will not be a good host. In addition, you should also read the terms of service and their policy on everything. Sometimes, an excellent host may not allow something that appears often on your site, and because of this, your hosting may be shut down. If you don't have these requirements met from your host, you should not use it, let alone pay for it! Some really good hosts are Dreamhost and Freehostia, as they provide the most professional and probably some of the least expensive hosting on the web. The host of The Forest Manor, Pikabot, pays $20 monthly for his hosting, and he get unmetered space and bandwidth, along with unlimited e-mails and FTP accounts, which he shares with websites like mine.

There are some excellent hosts around the Pokemon community that would be willing to share their hosting with others for free! One of these hosts is this very site! Yes, TFM provides quality hosting for Pokemon fansites that need good hosting. Another excellent host that I have noticed is Piplup-Princess' hosting. The webmaster, Piplup-Princess is a good friend of mine, and she provides quality hosting for webmasters who need it. Most, if not all Pokemon fansites that provide hosting have requirements from your site in order to get hosting, so you should look over their rules and regulations to see if you have met them. Once you have found your perfect host, be sure to stick with it unless you are not satisfied, because no one wants to keep on visiting a different site every month!