Q&A: what art most important features to look for in a web hosting service?

Question by beau2fuldisaster: what art most important features to look for in a web hosting service?
I am new at web design, and in the process of trying to find a good web hosting service. I plan on having lots of videos and photos on my sites, and was wondering what kind of features are the most important for me to be looking for when searching for a web host. Are some servers faster than others? If so, which are the fastest? And is it better to go with a windows or linux server? Are there any other important features that I need to look for? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!


Best answer:

Answer by vicesofvirtues
Since you're having lots of videos and photos, you want LOTS of and I mean LOTS of bandwidth (amount of data transfer). Web space is important too especially with videos taking up a lot of space, but you really need bandwidth to actually let users see the videos. And, you want good uptime, at least 95%. What's the point of all that space and bandwidth if you can't use it?

Also, it depends on if you're planning to do lots of cgi/php/other similar languages scripting. If you do, you may want to find places that have more than one MYSQL database.

But for your purposes, the most important things are 1) bandwidth 2) webspace

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