Different Options Available with Business Web Hosting

When you start looking for a business web hosting plan you will find that you have lots of choice. There will be local providers, regional providers, and national and international providers. One of the biggest and best known is Yahoo! Web Hosting. They have a number of plans available, with add-on features to make your site more interactive. They charge one-time setup fees of $25 for their starter, standard and professional plans, which have monthly rates of $11.95, $19.95 and $39.95 respectively.

The starter package provides 5 GB of disk space; the standard has 10 GB and the professional 20 GB. What does that mean? The starter will support up to 25,000 web pages, the standard up to 50,000 plus and the professional up to 100,000 plus. But here's a more important statistic. The starter package has 200 GB data transfer, the standard 400 GB and the professional 500 GB. That means the starter package supports 10,000 to 500,000 visitors a month, the standard supports 10,000 to 1 million a month and the professional supports 10,000 to 1.2 million visitors a month. The starter package supports 200 business email addresses, the standard supports 500 and the professional supports 1,000. If you need an e-commerce function they have a merchant starter plan at $39.95 a month with a $50 setup fee.

Check Out Verio

Verio is another provider you will want to consider. Their slogan is "Growing Your Business, One Click At A Time" and they say they have web-hosting plans to fit every business and every budget. They also have Unix or Windows hosting plans available at $19.95 a month. Other plans include one for $29.95 a month for growing business with high traffic and another for $49.95 a month for robust high traffic sites.

Web.com (formerly Interland) will get you going for $9.95 a month, including PayPal buttons and 30 email addresses. The price goes up from there as you add features.

WebHosting has a business plan starting at $6.45 a month that allows six domains and 200 sub-domains, has 60 GB of web space and 500 GB data transfer. Another provider, ho sting.com, provides services to businesses around the world on both Unix and Microsoft platforms. They have various plans available for dedicated servers and virtual private servers and they also offer colocation and shared hosting solutions.

So, take some time to surf the Net for business web hosting plans from Verio and its competitors, as you get set to watch your business take off.