All For You

Now that you have decided to be a new webmaster, you probably by now have picked out a domain name, even a theme for your new website. But the question is, what do you do from here?

Well you need to find a home for your new website and that can be tricky business as not all hosting companies accept adult material and some that do over charge or limit your resources, so much so that in the end it could end up hurting your bottom line. Call a potential hosting company and ask ….

a) Do you host adult sites?

At this point they will often ask you about the type of website are creating. They basically want to know that although your material is adult it is legal. Don’t be shy or embarrassed because if you don’t ask and the web hosting company later finds out your website is adult in nature they will just turn you off and then your site is down and then where will you be?

b) Next ask how much their most basic “shared” or “virtual” plan will cost and what it includes.

Keep in mind that you are just starting and don’t need to pay for something you aren’t going to use so until you start making some money you should start off small, with one of the virtual hosting plans. What you are really looking for here is how much bandwidth the plan covers each month as well as the IP address oh and that they offer stats, even if just AWStats. You want your own unique IP address for search engine optimization purposes. If their cheapest plan doesn’t at the very least the IP and 150 gigs of bandwidth per month or costs more than $9.95 per month, time to move on and find someone else.

 

If you aren’t sure that the company you are looking at going with has a good package, compare it to say one like WebAir offers as even their most basic package is premium. Actually for that matter, if you don’t already have a web hosting company in mind, check out WebAir. I’m confident you’ll find they will meet all of your needs.

c)  Ask them their policy on shutting down your site.

Just today I came across a non adult website, that was dedicated to wordpress plugins.  The site had the following message.

Due to excessive load on the database, my hosting company (Dreamhost) pulled the plug on this website. I will be looking into ways to bring it back online as soon as possible… Sorry…

This was a non adult website running nothing more than Wordpress and wordpress related plug ins.  The hosting company felt it was to much of a strain on the shared resources and pulled the site.  That is the last thing you want to do is wake up one day and find out you are cut off without warning.  You want to find a web hosting company who will at the very least give you a call ahead of time.  You want advance warning if they need to terminate your usage of some of your scripts.  Any company not willing to give you advance warning is not worth your time and trust me, most out there will not give you *ANY* warning.

d) Next Google the name of the web hosting company.

You are going to Google them to see if you can find out anything bad about them. Any obvious and legit complaints. You would be surprised how many people skip this step and it ends up costing them dearly.

In closing you are probably wondering why you need to pay for hosting if there are those “free” hosting companies out there. Well to that I simply say …. why go into business to make money if you aren’t going to do it right? I’m here to help you skip past all the newbie mistakes that others have made before you and hopefully you won’t make the same “free hosting” mistake they have. There are many reasons why not to chose free hosting but mostly because it’s unprofessional, unreliable and unstable. You are also probably sharing an IP with 100 other websites, any one of which could do something to get banned from say Google and that could in turn cause you a world of hassle you don’t need. So just know that “free” is never really free and if you do it right, the small amount of money you spend each month in professional hosting will pay for itself 10 times over in a very short amount of time.

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