There are LOTS of different options which will have different levels of importance depending on your goals, budget, etc. Below I offer a basic table you can use as a starting point for a checklist as you investigate different hosting providers.
Option | Host #1 | Host #2 | Host #3 |
Pricing | |||
Setup Fee | |||
Monthly Price | |||
Upgrade / Updates (none, on request, proactive, etc.) | |||
Operating System | |||
Applications | |||
Control Panel | |||
Core Capabilities | |||
Shared/Virtual/Dedicated | |||
# IPs | |||
Additional IP Cost | |||
# of Domains | |||
# Sub-Domains | |||
Private Nameservers | |||
Control Panel Technology | |||
Hardware / Infrastructure | |||
Unix/Linux/Windows | |||
Disk Space | |||
Additional Disk Space | |||
Bandwidth | |||
Additional Bandwidth Cost | |||
Hardware | |||
Min. RAM | |||
Max. RAM | |||
24×7 Support (phone/Web only) | |||
Contract required / special terms | |||
Access / Site Management Capabilities | |||
# FTP Accounts | |||
Anonymous FTP | |||
Shell Access (SSH) | |||
DNS / Bind | |||
Email Related | |||
# POP3 Accounts | |||
IMAP Support | |||
Web-based Email | |||
SPF/SenderID Support | |||
Spam Filter | |||
Email Aliases | |||
Catch All account | |||
Auto responders | |||
Mailing Lists | |||
Mail forwarding | |||
SMTP | |||
Spam filtering | |||
Development Tools | |||
# MySQL DBs | |||
Custom Error Pages | |||
CGI (private) | |||
PHP | |||
Perl | |||
Python | |||
Cron Access | |||
FrontPage Support | |||
SSL (Shared) | |||
SSL (Private) | |||
Curl Support | |||
Override .htaccess Support | |||
Reporting Capabilities | |||
Raw Log Files (extended) | |||
Referrer Logs | |||
Error Logs | |||
AWStats | |||
Analog Stats | |||
Other web stats | |||
Server Side Includes | |||
Password Protect Directories | |||
Backups (on-server or off-server) | |||
Optional Program Support (version) | |||
Fantastico Script Support | |||
phpMyAdmin | |||
phpBB | |||
phpList |
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