Choosing a Web host provider for your site is no small decision. When you
make a choice of a Web page host, you are actually placing your Internet
business in the hands of your Web host provider. Choosing the wrong Web
page hosting plan can cause permanent damage to your search engine
placement.
Selecting a Web page host is like renting an office. You want to get it right
the first time


You Are Renting Space And Bandwidth
We are going to look at some little known facts about Web page hosting and
how it can effect your search engine placement.
Did you submit your site over and over again without ever getting it indexed
in the search engines? Or was your site indexed, but is nowhere to be found
when you type your search terms into the engines? Your Web host provider
might be the cause of that. As Ask.com states:
“If being found via search engines is important to your business, be very
careful about where you have your pages hosted. If the hosting service also
hosts spammers and pornographers, you could wind up being penalized or
excluded.”

Shared IP hosting
Many Web hosting services do not give out unique IP addresses to
customers. The name-based system of virtual Web hosting allows multiple
domains to be hosted by a single IP. This means several hundred domain
names could all be using the same IP address. Are you sharing an IP address
with people you don’t even know?
If someone else, who is hosted on the same server as your site, gets banned
on a search engine, then your Web site will be caught and banned as well.
This happens on a regular basis causing serious problems for those who are
affected.

Downtime
If your Web host provider cannot keep servers up and running 24/7, people
will not be able to find your site. The search engine spiders won’t find it
either. They will assume your site is gone and remove it from the search
engine index. You will have to resubmit and wait weeks or months for the
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spider to re-index your site. If your site already is indexed and ranking well,
it might lose its position altogether.
No matter what web host provider you use, it is highly recommended that
you sign up for a free site monitoring service like EasyMonitor. This
guarantees that you’re alerted within minutes when your site goes down.
This enables you to get to work immediately to solve the problem and
dramatically increase the time your site is up and running

Other features include daily back up of your data, high bandwidth and, of
course, the quality of their support services. In addition, you must consider
the features offered by the Web page host. Some features to consider are
The space available for your site
Monthly transfer limits
POP mail server availability
Support for CGI, SSI, Perl, databases and FrontPage 2000 extensions
Secure server access (SSL)
Anonymous FTP and
Shopping Cart Software
page hosting plan can cause permanent damage to your search engine
placement.
Selecting a Web page host is like renting an office. You want to get it right
the first time