There are several web hosting company prevalent in the online market there days. If someone has to buy a hosting pertaining to his need , then he ought to take a very judicious step or otherwise he may have to suffer in long term. Here are certain points which we need to keep emphasis before purchasing a hosting.

1.Amount of web space that you need. Resellers provide with various scheme of 100mb/250mb/500mb/1gb, so you first need to specify the web space requirement of your site catering to the growing amount of content in near future. You may have the options to even switch over to different hosting .

2.Bandwidth, its one of the most basic entity of having a web hosting. Each time your site has been viewed by a user, some band width is utilized in that process. Hence if you are having a descent traffic at your site then you at least need to have a bandwidth of 2GB/5GB. Most of the company follow a overselling technique due to which the client has to suffer in long term. Overselling means , if suppose you have been provided with a bandwidth of 2GB, but as soon as you cross the limit of 1.5 GB you will face down time problem. So be aware of such tricks.

3.Control panel !! this feature allow you to manage various aspects of your hosting account. It provides you various ways to create content of your site. Few of the Cpanel are preinstalled with drupal, wordpress, pearl, php, joomla and many more.

4. We need to be totally aware of the server where from the hosting is installed. Hosting based on Apache server is the most renowned one. The better the server is , better will be the uptime of the site.

5. If we are in need to have certain kind of transaction of money through credit card at our site then we must have to be confirmed that the hosting is provided with SSL, and MySQL features.

6. If we need to have a e-mail feature at our site then the hosting company has to be informed about this , whether they are providing with this feature or not.

The web host we use is HostGator a very reputble company with good support.