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Choosing
an affordable web host, actually any web host, is not as easy as
one might think. It's a jungle out there as consumers experienced in the
web hosting can attest to 3 or 4 hosts after the fact! That price is a
major determining factor in making a choice, is a given in affordable
web hosting, but not all hosts in a price range are the same! Choosing
the wrong affordable host can lead to hours of frustration, lost time,
and poor web site performance. The good news is when you come to
BottomLine Web Hosting you have found one of the best, if not THE best,
affordable Windows web host out there today. Many consumers frustrated
by previous hosting experiences have found a real home at BottomLine.
What to look for when looking for in an affordable Windows web host and
why BottomLine fits the bill:
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Price: If price is a concern, you need not look any
further for genuine Windows Web Hosting than BottomLine Web Hosting.
We make sure the prices we offer are the best in the industry for
Windows web hosting. And, they are. Furthermore we offer these
prices on monthly payment plans, with no commitments. Try us, you'll
like us. Alot. |
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Knowledge: Windows web server is a powerful versatile
hosting platform to develop in. Only choose a host specialized in
Windows web hosting for best results. A hosting customer is
responsible for doing their part in learning how to use their web
hosting plan and how to develop in a Windows environment, with the
help of development tools like FrontPage and the boundless sources
of free assistance available on the internet. However, the host is
the expert when it comes to the web hosting: When problems in
hosting do come up, it is the host's job to be able to step in and
help. Windows web hosting is all we do, we do it well, and know
we're here to help. Share the knowledge! Whether it be in using
Frontpage, Visual Studio, .asp, asp.net, Access Database, MS SQL, or
even MySQL hosting in a Windows environment, we are here to help and
we know how to help. Furthermore technical support employees are
encourage to go out of their way to assist when there is a coding
problem getting in the way of a problem web site. Can your current
host boast these things? We find in talking to new customers already
hosted somewhere else but changing, that many cannot.. |
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Service: Service is extremely important in the web
hosting industry. Unlike the phone system, web hosting is a
knowledge & labor intensive technology industry. Developing &
hosting your web site is not as easy as picking up a phone to
receive a phone call. There will be times even the most experienced
developer will have server setting issues that require host
assistance, or errors they would like a second opinion on. It's
important that your web host be available to assist and want to
assist. By walking your through the process before you signup,
providing detailed instructions to get started after you sign-up,
and being there for you after you signed up, BottomLine Web Hosting
is here for you. We are available during waking hours of the day,
weekends and holidays included, to assist you in dealing with your
development or web site operation issues. |
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Windows Technology: Make sure the host you choose is
using Windows web servers to host their Microsoft code and
applications. Unix/Linus platform can host some but not all
Microsoft applications such as FrontPage and .asp (as of today
Unix/Linux cannot host asp.net), but it is less than a perfect fit.
Just as, if not more, importantly- when you host your Microsoft
product engineered web site with a host running it on Unix/Linux
servers and things do go wrong you can be sure of one thing: The
host is not expert in hosting Microsoft products, because they are
not using the platform designed to run it all: Windows. Whether or
not they'll be able to help you when your form doesn't run is many
times, based on what we hear every day from new customers coming
from such a host, is real question mark. Windows is fast becoming
the dominant hosting platform. We say to Unix/Linux hosts: Put money
second for a moment and leave hosting of Microsoft engineered code
and products to the hosts that know it: Windows web hosts like
BottomLine. |
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Uptime: Affordable web hosting, which is always shared
web hosting (meaning your web site shares a server with other web
sites) is not the arena if you absolutely require 100% uptime:
Mission critical applications demanding 100% uptime require
dedicated hosting, and mirrored servers on different networks, with
dynamic DNS routing application. These solutions range from 100's to
1,000's of dollars a month. If you are searching for affordable web
hosting, chances are your application is not mission critical.
However, that doesn't mean you don't expect your web site under
normal circumstances to always be up. Don't worry. At BottomLine we
use only HSP (hosting service provider) class equipment maintained
in HSP class facilities, and our servers & network are monitored by
machines, supervised by human beings, 24hrs/day, every day of the
year. To insure that under normal operating conditions your web site
will be up- all the time. In rare cases where something does happen
to cause a server or the network to go down, or regular maintenance
is required, the stoppages are only momentary. |
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