Unless you are one of the few people that are capable of maintaining a 24 hour server in their home with secure domain registration, you’ll be searching for a new host when your company launches. This article is specifically written to help out new individuals in their quest to better understand the power of server hosting and the companies that rely upon it.

Switch web hosts if an outage lasts for more than a day. Even if the host explains why the server is down, the most likely reason is that the host did not invest enough into back up plans as far as outages are concerned. Any truly professional web hosts will have ensured that outages will be short and infrequent.

If you have a small to mid-sized company and want to cut hosting costs, you should go with a shared server. If you do not get lots of …