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Does the hosting provider gives you access to a control panel? Cheap website hosting doesn't always give you access to the guts of your website. This is the place where you are in control of everything.
Make sure hosting provider gives you a site manager where you are able to access and create sub domains, DNS records, FTP and Front page extensions. MySQL databases and php scripts that are built into the site. All you do is plug them in. Password protected areas, Contrab (scheduling certain applications), SSL certificates for Secure purchasing and SSH
(a unique management and operations module for operating secure services in a corporate infrastructure), which you probably will not need.
Does the hosting provider give you access to more than 1 email
address? How many do you really need? 10? 100? How about auto responders? A one time auto response is a great time saving tool. How about spam protection, email forwarding and some mailing lists?
Traffic statistics are an important tool in marketing your website. Can you tell where your website traffic is coming from with your current web hosting provider?
How about some tools to help you improve your website and make it sticky.
Site Studio to create your website without expensive software. PHP scripts like Ad Management -
phpAdsNew, phpList, Blog - WordPress. Classified Ads - Classifieds. Content Management -
Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, Moodle, Nucleus, Open Realty, WebSiteBaker,
phpWebSite. Customer Support - Crafty Syntax Live Help, Help Center Live, OS Ticket,
PHPTickets, Support Logic Helpdesk. Discussion Boards - YaBB SE, phpBB2. E-Commerce -
CubeCart, OS Commerce. File Manipulation - Invision Power FM. Groupware Tools -
DOTproject, PHProject. Image Galleries - 4Images Gallery, Coppermine. Portal Systems - PHP Nuke. Server Management -
phplinks. Web Hosting Tools - phpFormGenerator, phpcoin. You will not
use all these scripts but they are sure nice to have at your fingertips.
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