There are gazillions of excellent web hosting companies out there in early 21st Century cyberspace. You should choose one that offers as many server add-ons as you will require for your type of web site and your operating budget. Be warned, however. Not all hosting services are the same.
Here is a short list of hosting amenities nearly all hosting services offer. But some outfits have been slow in meeting the new challenges
A pretty decent starter package for most of us would include:
- UNLIMITED Hosting Space
- UNLIMITED Site Bandwidth
- Host UNLIMITED Domains
- Unlimited Pop/Imap Email Accounts
- SSH Access (Secure Shell)
- SSL, FTP, Stats
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MYSQL
- Front Page Extensions
- Free Domain Forever
- Free Site Builder
- Best Support in the industry
How much should you pay for all of these great features? That depends. Prices have dropped wildly since the day when a single 10 MB web space cost $30/month. In today’s climate storage is nearly unlimited and prices range from $4.95/month when paying annually, upward to over $20.00/month. Your mileage will vary.

