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If you never have rented a webspace before, you might wonder if it makes any difference which web hosting agency you should choose. In consideration of the fact that there are probably thousands of web hosting companies out there, it’s completely understandable that you feel overstrained and helpless in the first moments. In fact you just have to think about a few points, this should ease your decision.

Price

The price basically depends on the amount of webspace and traffic you get. Also web technologies and customer support play a major role. If you want to get a cheap webspace there will probably be some restrictions in one of these points.

Customer Support

If you prefer personal contact in case of troubles rather than writing an e-mail hoping for response, you should definitely make sure your web host provides support via telephone. Sometimes telephone support is not included in cheap web hosting packages.

Webspace/Traffic

If you don’t have huge archives of images or videos to upload, about 1GB of webspace should do it, but be careful with traffic rates, some web hosting agencies charge extra fees when exceeding the limit.

Web Technologies

Probably the most important features you’ll need are PHP and MySQL. If you ever want to develop websites beyond static HTML these features are crucial! Even for small websites PHP can be necessary and helpful.

Mailserver POP3/IMAP

Do you check your mails from more than one location? Well then maybe you’d like to use IMAP instead of POP3. The majority of low priced offers probably don’t include IMAP.

Of course this is just a small selection of useful thoughts, but I hope they’re valuable for you though!