Web development, domain and hosting

Having a web site has become very crucial for almost any business or companies to keep up with their competitors, may it be a small time setup or a big business tycoon, the company is rated and judged certainly by the kind of the web presence they have, so the bottom line is choosing the right web development firms.

Crucial factors, which will drive and keep the web site alive and functional for a long time and support its scalability as the company and operations grows.

1. Domain name - this is first and the key factor, driving force as far the brand goes. There are lots of cheap domain name providers, which are fly by night operators, they believe only in one time money from their customers and there is no guaranteed service in terms of renewing or making some DNS changes as and when required, so do not get into this trap for saving few dollars. Please note older domain names have great impact on search engines.

2. Hosting providers - this is second important factor, which will make sure 100% uptime and secure environment, small companies can look at having a virtual hosting and gradually upgrade it to dedicated hosting environment. OS (operating system) can be chosen based on service providers expertise like Php/MySQL or ASP/MsSql.
Timely backup, 24 by 7 customer support, good bandwidth, strong firewall to avoid physical access to your servers, I know I am getting a bit techie here, but this is something which cannot be neglected, especially when it is an ecommerce or service oriented website.

3. Choosing the web development company, oh man this is the toughest part, you should do a reference check with their existing clients, after sales service is the must, since once the traffic increases, chances of getting updates and maintenance done increases too, the development company should be within your city. Most of them get into trap by getting development done as one time cost and does not really get into an AMC(Annual Maintenance Contract). Dynamic websites where the level of interaction is too much requires constant tweak and updates.

More to come in coming days.... do let me know if this helps you in someway by dropping me a comment.