What is the first thing that you look for on a web hosting review website when choosing a web host? If your answer is price think again...

There are many aspects that you need to consider when deciding which web hosting company that you should choose, so it can be hard to know what it is that you should be prioritising. But if you are only looking for one thing to focus on then you should be looking at one keyword, reliability.

When it comes down to it, reliability is what you need from the web host if you are going to make a success of your website. While it is nice to get a good price deal, or to have other metrics met, the main thing you want is to know that the site is always going to be up.

• If your site is going to be a success people need to be able to access it. A web host that regularly goes offline will be one that people are unable to gain access to, which means that it won't be gaining visitors or making money.
  
• You will get less visitors. Search engines want to send people to sites that they can trust. If you are repeatedly going offline then the search engines won't trust you, and so won't rank you high enough to send visitors to your site. The search engine traffic is often the most important to a site, you can no risk it with an unreliable host.
  
• Fixing a site. Problems happen – they could be your fault, they could be the web hosts fault. You don't want to be working with a web host that is going to be causing you problems – bad enough if they are your fault, but worse if someone elses.

A good, reliable web host is going to help you fix a site, a problematic host is actually going to create problems, not fix them. Choosing a reliable web host helps ensure that problems are rare, and quickly dealt with when they occur at all.

• Hosting an Add-on Domain on Your Shared Hosting Account

A step-by-step guide to help you configure an add-on domain (a great feature that allows your to host more than one website) on your shared hosting plan.

• Shared Web Hosting
  
  Shared Web Hosting is yet another option for businesses considering their computing needs - and it offers some unique options for companies. In the case of shared web hosting many websites reside on one server. Each site is separate from the other on its own partition. In fact, some companies love this option as the overall cost of server maintenance is shared between everyone involved.
  
  
• Reseller Web Hosting
  
  The main idea behind reseller web hosting is that the account holder can use their own allotted hard drive disk space and bandwidth to host websites on the behalf of a third party. How this works is that the reseller purchases services wholesale from the original host, and then the reseller sells services to their customers - for a decent profit.
  
  
• Virtual Private Hosting (VPS or VDS)
  
  If you're considering running a web-based business or a website you will probably be looking at several different options based on cost, the number of features you'll be allowed, your own personal or business needs including virtual private hosting (also known as VPS or virtual dedicated server hosting, VDS). Virtual Private Hosting is a most frequently considered a method of portioning a server computer into multiple servers that each have the appearance and capability of running on its own dedicated machine.