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Feature 1: Domain Name
Registration |
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Site hosting provider will normally
include domain name (www.yourname.com) registration as part
of the package. Be sure that the administration control is
you but not them. You can then have full control even if you
decide to change your site hosting provider later on. |
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Feature 2: Email Accounts |
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Your site hosting provider must offer
email POP accounts which you can name meaningfully for
different visitors' correspondence.
Eg. you can name the following email
accounts for the appropriate purpose:
[email protected] - for getting sales order.
[email protected] - for providing customer support.
[email protected] - to ask for web design
quotation or report a broken link, etc. |
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Feature 3: Site Building
Tools |
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Get the site host that provides
easy-to-use/user-friendly site building tools. It should
have plenty of professional web templates for you to select
and allow you to fully customize the web pages by manually
inserting HTML code. You should be
able to integrate web pages created using frontpage,
dreamweaver or any other web development tools to your site.
Also, basic add-on such as web graphics,
email form (to get visitors' feedback), etc should be
provided. |
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Feature 4: Unlimited Web
Pages, File Types |
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Your site host should allow unlimited web
pages so long as the storage space is not beyond the
allocated size. Your storage space should be enough to cover
your needs...approximately 10 megabytes (Mb) should be
sufficient for most small business sites. Most site hosting
providers offer far higher than this.
It should also allow all types of files to
be uploaded to the site server. Some hosts will limit the
file types that can be uploaded...exe, zip, mp3 files, etc.
If you offer downloadable e-goods, make sure that exe or zip
file is in the list of file type allowed. |
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Feature 5: Secure Server |
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If you offer credit card as one of your
visitor's buying method, your site host must be
secure...both in accepting credit card information and to
transmit that data from its server to your computers. |
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Feature 6: Data Transfer, 0%
Downtimes, Fast Connection Speed |
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Check that the site hosting provider offers
2 gigabytes (Gb) or more per month for data transfer since
most commercial sites transfer < 1 Gb/month.
It should offer 0% (or at least < 1%)
downtimes...that means your site is up 99+% of the time.
Make sure that your site is loaded fast. |
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Feature 7: Online Stats |
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Log files for traffic analysis should be
provided. The log files should provide data on the
access/transfer (date/time, IP address), browser (type of
browsers, operating system used), referrer (site that send
your visitors to your site) and error messages (if any).
You should be able to gather data like number of hits,
number of visitors, most popular pages, most frequent entry
and exit pages, etc from the log files. You can then know
your visitor behavior and improve your site accordingly. |
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Feature 8: FTP, Personal CGI Bin
Access |
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Unrestricted FTP access...you should be able to manage and
modify your site with no limit to the number of site updates
or to the times of access. You
should be able to install CGI scripts. |
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Feature 9: Shopping Cart,
Payment Method |
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If you are selling multiple products, you
may need one to allow your visitors to make checklist of
items that they intend o buy. And
assure that your host allows credit card payment method. |
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Feature 10: Technical
Support |
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Free unlimited tech support...24
hours/day, 365 days/year...live-human support via email and
phone. This is very important
because you do not want your site down for a few hours and
you can't contact anyone for help to solve the problem. |
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Feature 11: Price |
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Not really important...if your needs are
met. If you are concerned, stay within your budget and
compromise on non-essential features or services. |
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12. |
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