It is important to buy a right web hosting for your website. Why you have to pay so much money when you only need a small website for your profile? And why you have to use a small web host when you made a big website with high traffics? You need to know all of these before buy a web host.

Disk Space

If you need you share more files and images in your website, then you need big disk space. Your disk space will be used to host your files, mysql, and emails.

Bandwidth

If you have high traffics, you need high bandwidth also. Don’t make your reader sad because they could open your website when you reached your bandwidth limit this month.

MySQL

Different web host plan will give different amount of MySQL accounts. If you will run multiple websites, it means you need more than one MySQL account.

Sub Domains

Different web host plan will give different amount of subdomains.

Addon Domains

Some web host plan will give opportunity to host more than one domain under one hosting. If you run multiple domains, you need this feature to save your disk space and your cost.

Parked Domains

If you want to park some domains, you will need this feature. You have to see how many domains allowed to be parked in the plan.

Email Accounts

Make your website looks more professional using email under your domain. Different web host will give different amount of email accounts. If you have a big community in your website, then you will need more email accounts. Notice that your inbox size will be included in your disk space. So, bigger inbox size will need bigger disk space. But you can also host your emails in other place, like Google Apps, to save your disk space.

FTP Account

You will need this plan when you need to make more than one ftp account.

Control Panel

I think Cpanel is the best solution when you don’t have many experience with any web host. Cpanel is user friendly for every user especially for a new user. Some web hosts use their custom control panel. It means that you will need more times to learn their custom control panel.

Fantastico

If you are new user, Fantastico is a good tool to help you install some CMS like Joomla, Wordpress, SMF, etc only with some clicks.

For example, Gossimer.com has five different plans. Gossimer.com also has a free plan with 50MB diskspace and 1GB bandwidth/month. You will be charged only $8.88 for domain registration for this free plan.