When you want to put your new internet web site, blog, or ecommerce store on the internet, your first choice to make is finding an internet online web hosting company to host your site.

And it's an important choice because, if you pick the wrong company for your home based business, you will have so many problems and headaches, and so much frustration, that you will regret ever trying.

It's not easy getting unbiased information or reviews on internet web hosting companies either. A Google search will list tons of review sites that promise to give you the straight facts, sure, and I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you too! We will get into some detail about that later, but here's one fact to remember, and it's one affiliate review sites can't 'fudge' or make up...

The National Better Business Bureau (BBB), (maybe you've seen their logo on some sites), give Bluehost a national rating of B+

Remember... That's a B+ NATIONALLY! See if you can find that on an affiliate review page.

The Web Hosting Plan

The Web Hosting market is one of the internet's most competitive. The technical and cost-related parts of internet web hosting have increased in capibilities and dropped in cost so much in the last couple years that it no longer requires millions of dollars of start-up cost to get into the market, and a lot of companies are doing it.

And they all want your business! The plans they offer get more 'all-inclusive' on an almost weekly basis.Most plans now offer "Unlimited" data storage, bandwidth, and maybe even MySQL databases and email accounts. So how do you decide?

The best web site hosting companies are the ones that offer the three most important hosting features that you need as a new domain owner, ease of use, reliability, and customer support!

Remember Bluehost's B+?

What this boils down to is that almost all service providers will be able to service your domain's website needs, it just a matter of which company packages their services in a plan that suits your needs best. And all plans can be upgraded depending on your expanding needs.

So first you have to decide what you need now, and pick a plan that includes solutions for these needs. Chances are most of the companies will have hosting plans that will work for you. So now we get to the real point. If most companies can provide the specifics of your hosting needs, and they all offer it in almost the same price ranges, how do you pick one to host your domain?

By choosing ones that meet the really important needs;

Reliability, Ease of Use, and Customer Support

There are some plan specifics to check out, depending on your plans and software. Industry protocols, and 3rd-party support platforms, are the standards that have developed for certain types of web site coding. If you are planning to use a 3rd-party site builder, or a specific ecommerce package, you must make sure the hosting company supports your programs. Most will, the industry is pretty standardized now, but you still must make sure.

Other standards to look for.

cPanel

The most common, and easiest, way to administer and maintain your web site is through what's called a 'Control Panel'. A control panel let's you work on your web site through a user interface that does not require you to do coding and mess with FTP stuff just to add to, or change your website. It is usually as easy as 'drag & drop'. The industry has standardized on one called, cPanel, this is the one you want.

Fantastico

You will almost certainly be using some, (or maybe alot) of javascript on your site. It is the primary method used to create modules that perform mini-functions, like; forms, image effects, and many others, Mixing havascript with html or CSS html is like trying to mix apples and oranges, it can cause problems. One of the best programs to handle this, and make it work seamlessly, is Fantastico, the web hosting industry has pretty much standardized on this program too! It's the one you want and Bluehost has it!

Tools...

There are many different functions involved in creating and/or maintaining your web site. Things like image galleries, customer info databases, re-directs to different directories or sub-domains, and so on, you want to make sure your web hosting plan includes all the tools you need to do these functions. Bluehost has one of the most complete tool boxes on the market. You can check out all the specifics at their web site plan 'demo' page.

You need these!

What good is the best plan in the world if the company's equipment is aways down... and so is your web site?

Bluehost maintains the newest and most dependable hardware available! Their use of the latest cutting-edge technology in both hardware and software allow them to maintain one of the highest 'Up-time' ratios in the industry.

Bluehost can document a 99.99% online performance rating!

Remember that B+ BBB rating?

When you have a problem, or a special need...

... customer and technical can become the most important part of you plan. Think about only having email support, or even worse 'canned' email support, and what if you have to wait 2 or 3 days for that 'canned' email response.

Bluehost has 24/7 customer and technical support! I called the number on their web site to get an answer to a question I had while writing this review and recieved an immediate answer from a real human! And it was 11:30 at night.

Let's look again at that BBB B+ rating... with hundreds of thousands of customers, Bluehost had only 40 registered complaints, and with their premium customer service standards, all 40 were resolved! Check them out, this isn't hype, it's documented performance.