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Top 3 Web Host Requirements

by Andy Brudtkuhl on February 4, 2009

Twitter poll today was “What are the top 3 things you look for when looking for a web host?”

Seems the results overwhelming were

  1. Price
  2. Customer Service
  3. Control / Flexibility

Justin Law, who runs KangarooBoo, made a great point => “You get what you pay for”

I couldn’t agree more!

Web Hosting Poll

So what are your requirements when choosing a web host? Let us know in the comments!

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Budgeting 2009 Web Strategy – Hosting

by Andy Brudtkuhl on January 5, 2009

Last year this time we posted about setting up a budget for your web strategy.. So, we decided to do the same this year. When we plan a web strategy for our clients it always includes a cost budget and time budget . Here’s a generic version of our web strategy budget, including what 48Web budgets for our web strategy. This post turned out extremely long so we’ll be releasing it in chunks – for easier reading. In this post we’ll cover the hosting aspect of your web strategy.

Hosting
Cost: $5-$100/mo based on your needs
Time: 1 time setup approximately 2 hours, 4 hours maintenance per month
We raised our cost estimate this year because, well, our hosting costs went up and we added some new services. Our costs went up because we host many websites and the traffic for some of these sites went up tremendously in 2008. If you are running a single website or blog your hosting costs should not be more than $15/mo.
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