Yes indeed, who would have thought it, but your web hosting provider could indirectly be costing you the chance of good placements in the major search engine Google.
How Shared Web Hosting works is that a group of clients share virtual space on the web server. How many accounts share this virtual space varies by host. Some host providers have a few hundred shared accounts on the same server, where as others have a few thousand. Also know as virtual hosting, Shared Web Hosting shares much more than just virtual web space on a server.
Windows or Linux: Do you know if your site needs to run on a MS Windows server with FrontPage extensions or does it need PERL, PHP or MySQL? These things you will need to find out if you intent to run a successful small business Shared Web Hosting UK site.
Up-time is the over all time the hosting company promises that their servers will be up and running. Some claim to have 100% up-time, but I find that to be almost impossible to have so I tend to go with the ones claiming a 99,9% up-time. This tells us that even though they take back-ups, have mirrored servers and all other stuff to keep the servers safe and running, there is always a small possibility that the servers can go down.
(3). Check Price Plan - You will be able to get access to many Affordable Web Hosting providers for your home business for less than $10 per month. Many of them offer long term plans ranging from two (2) to five (5) years, and some of these can save you up to forty percent (40%) or more over the period. If you can afford to, you should definitely choose a long term plan for the savings they offer.
Look for the reviews, take the companies for test (almost every web hosting company provides 30 days money back guarantee). In a good web hosting company, a very important step is to test the credibility.
My one bit of good advice is do not sign up with any server for a long period of time to start with. It will be cheaper in the long run but at first just sign up for a little while. Try before you buy, make sure that the service provider is able to meet your expectations. If it does, then sign up for a longer period and save money.