Before You Create a Website, Do These 6 Activities!

Here are some things you must keep in mind before you start the ambitious project of creating a website for yourself or your business.

1. Test a host's customer support service before you become a member - some never answer their phones. Make sure that you can access their support and technical department and they have a quick response time.

2. Do not go for the cheapest plan offered. Read the reviews of other users before you sign up for the host. Consider their customers' recommendations and experience instead of just comparing the prices and the packages.

3. Look closely at the host's guarantee. Most of these guarantees are worthless so be careful - read the fine print.

4. Check if the host is legit by doing a WHOIS. Also check their creation date, if their domain name is less than a year old, you are taking more risk by joining them. Join a web host that has a good reputation and has been in the business for at least 5 years.

5. Beware of a web host that offers their yearly membership at very cheap price. If their price is too good to be true, be skeptical of their service. If you have problems with them in the future, it will be harder for you to transfer to another web host.

6. Search the web host's name through search engines, if the company has been around for more than a year, there would be reviews about it that you can use as a guideline. Do not trust the reviews that are high with praises and have nothing bad to say, because they may be planted.

By Fabian Tan