If you are hosting your web site with your web designer, you have no control if the relationship sours. When you host your web site it is important that you are working with a reputable company and that you have all the IDs and passwords and other information necessary to manage the web site yourself.
You can consider the suggested company recommended by the web designer, but you should ensure that their relationship is arms length and you can continue to deal with the hosting company in the event of relationship problems with your designer.
If you are looking for a good quality, inexpensive hosting company, try iPowerWeb. iPowerWeb offers 10,000 MB of storage and up to 2,500 email accounts for only $7.95 per month.
Want to see how well your hosting company is doing? Try this free service from Internet Seer. Internet Seer will test your web site every hour to see if it is working and then email you to let you know it is down. In addition they will send you statistics each week showing what percentage of the time your site is down.
When choosing a web site hosting company, you should also ask if they provide statistics tracking.Copyright 2005 by Garland Coulson 4 www.ebusinesstutor.com