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Today's competitive business world requires that you market on a variety of fronts. This includes having a functional website where your customers can go in order to learn more about your products and services. You also want to be able to sell your products and services via this website. Today, online sales account for a large percentage of small business profits.

To start a new business or to have an existing one survive it is almost mandatory for that business to have an online presence. This requires a website and a website must be hosted somewhere. Hosting services place websites on the Internet.

When searching for a web hosting service, you will find an overwhelming number of companies to choose from, so you will have to ask many questions before you find the one that is best for you.

6 Critical Factors When Choosing Reliable Web Hosting

Everyone wants and hopefully understands that a stable web hosting environment is crucial to the success of their online business.

However, finding reliable hosting is not as easy as it sounds. There are always some methods to figure out the answer, and below MMN has list six (6) very critical factors you should not miss when looking for a reliable web hosting.

1. Disk Space - Disk space is used to store the file or data of your web site. This is very important for the reliable of your web site, especially for those which allow their users to input the data online, such as Forum, and Blog. Data might grow automatically, and if you don't have enough space, your site won't be stable.
   
2. Bandwidth or Monthly Transfer - Data transfer (sometimes loosely referred to as "traffic" or "bandwidth") is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site. If you go over the limit, then either you will have to be an extra fee, or your website will not be available. The amount of bandwidth you use is obviously related to the amount of traffic (visitors) that you receive.
   
3. Backup - There are many cases that when a webmaster wakes up in the morning and finds some of his page are disappeared. There should be some problem with his server during that period, and the web hosting company hasn't backup their server regularly so that they don't have the data to recover the site. A regular backup service provided by your hosting vendor is a good guarantee to the stable of your site.
   
4. Monthly or Yearly Investment - Web hosting can start as low as $99.00 per year up to $250.00 per month or more depending on your needs. MMN offers one (1) year FREE web hosting to those individuals and business that retain our SEO services and/or web site design and development services.
5. Trouble Ticket Response Time - This is very important. If you submit a trouble ticket and do not get a reply within 24 hours get a new hosting company. By reply I don't mean a message saying we have received your request and one of our techs will be contacting you shortly.
   
6. Over All Support - If you are not satisfied for any reason with the support your hosting company provides then by all means get a new hosting company.