When it comes to building your business no matter if its a small business based out of your home office (or shed) or already got your company an office having your own space online is crucial. Depending on what type of business you run and the demand are both important factors to determine the hosting requirements for your website.

First of all you have to purchase a domain name which if you havent already there are many domain registrars to choose from, Entrepreneur Student recommends 123 REG.

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123REG are very simple to use (they support PayPal as a payment method) and are very affordable for domain names. Other domain registrars that are also very affordable include Godaddy however can be difficult and timely to move your domains should you wish later on to another registrar.

For hosting needs most small to medium sized enterprises can succsefully manage on a shared hosting package such as the packages supplied by Host Gator. One thing to be aware of when looking for a new hosting company is that when they tell you that your account will have *unlimited* bandwidth, space or anything…its not to be believed. Once your account starts to use excessive bandwidth or space (such as content distribution - video etc) get ready for your account to be shut off without warning or cancelled often without warning. This sort of advertising of unlimited data is very common with cheaper hosting companies, the best solution is to look around and actually call companies or source your local tech/IT guy and ask for advice. Searching in the South West (Somerset) in Google will provide a good list of website hosting companies.

Anything above a small-medium sized business would really want to take a look at larger hosting solution such as a VPS (Virtual Private System) some great solutions can be found with companies such as WebFusion . With larger organizations a Semi/Dedicated Server would allow much more control over the system and capabilities of the server, a good provider of dedicated servers are Rapid Switch but if you want fantastic support and reliability try out Rackspace who really cant be beaten for dedicated servers.

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