A webhost is the backbone of your business. It is so important that you find a host that will give you a guarantee of at least 99% percent uptime. That way, you know you can be selling your product while you sleep.

Did you know that most of the features in your webhosting plan, you will not use? Don't base your webhost provider on extra goodies and gadgets. Look for the essentials that you will be using.

The one factor which most people tend to look at right away is the price. You don't want to pay any more than $12-$14 a month for your webhosting plan. Also look for a feature to host more than one site within your account.

Right after the price and multiple website hosting options, comes the next important factor. That factor would be none other than storage.

If you need more space, some companies even offer more than 400GB of storage space. I have never used this much space in my life, for any website. If you do require that much though, many services offer this much room.

Perhaps even the most important factor to some, is the bandwidth you are allowed each month. Most sites will never use more than 5GB of bandwidth, but if you receive a lot of traffic, you will need a good amount.

If you had 500GB of bandwidth or more, your site would be able to get millions upon millions of visits each month.

These things are the foundations of any solid webhosting plan. Options on what type of server you want to use will depend upon what kind of program you want to run. I use Linux myself and have had no problems with it.

Linux servers should suit you well for almost anything you need. If you want a dedicated server though, you have even more options.