Why do I need a hosting partner?
Everybody who runs his own website and wants to manage additionally own e-mail addresses has to search first for a good hosting partner. Alternatively you could run your own web- and mailserver in your company.
A hosting partner provides space on a webserver. Here the datas of your website are stored and provided to your visitors 24 hours a day. Start to Web is not offering any hosting services, but we would like to help you by evaluating a good hosting partner. For most websites a so called shared hosting is absolutely adequate. That means that your website is stored on a webserver shared with other sites. Not until you expect really a lot of traffic you should think about an own server. The advantage of a hosted server is that you don't have to care about maintenance. This task will be done by your hosting provider.
Good hosting offers include normally a special management interface, like Plesk for example, what enables you nearly without any knowledge to setup databases or mail accounts for your employees. A hosting provider should offer a webmail solution as well, so your employees can read their mail as well at home or while travelling.
If you evaluate a hosting you mostly have to decide between Windows or Linux hosting. Mostly this decision is depending on what content management system you want to run later.
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