Today, when I read a post about "Say no to HostGator" from a very famous Internet Marketing blog , some thoughts come to my mind which I would like to share here.

The story starts with the blogger purchases a dedicated web hosting solution from HostGator and finds HostGator cannot provide the level of service he has expected. He is very frustrated after negociating with HostGator many times and finally cancelled the order.

So, what we should learn from this case? I think understanding what kinds of web hosting type you need is not enough when making a purchase of web hosting solution for your web site, you should also get to know the strength of the web hosting service provider and should not trust them just because of their repuation in the industry.

As we know, HostGator is a pretty good web hosting company in the current web hosting industry. But we say it is good is just because HostGator has done great job in shared web hosting market sector and reseller web hosting market sector. For me, it's very rarely to hear HostGator is good for its dedicated web hosting solution. From my viewpoint, this is a weakness area of HostGator actually.

This is not the only case happened when I heard about the complaints to some very good web hosting companies from my friends. The case like hosting an e-business web site in Economy Plan from GoDaddy will not make sense even the bandwidth and diskspace there is good enough. An economy plan is an economy plan, besides knowing the strength of the web hosting service provider, we will also need to understanding what the web hosting pakcage is designed for.

So, what should you think about when choosing a web hosting solutions? Below are something I can recommend:

• Understanding your web hosting needs, such as disk space, bandwidth, platform, db, etc. Besides those basic web hosting features, you will also need to know the type of web sites you will create. There are many things you can not find from the description of web hosting features, such as the connection speed, server resource restriction, and more. All those will be reflected in the price of the web hosting, and are very important to your web sites. Don't host an e-business web hosting on a personal hosting solution, you will find the connection speed will be very slow and have to give up later.
• Knowing the strength of the web hosting service provider. Go to shared web hosting vendor for shared web hosting, and host your enterprise web application in the dedicated web hosting service provider.
• Paying attention to the purpose of each web hosting solution. Even in shared web hosting service provider, they will create the different solution for personal web site or small business web sites with different price.

Hopefully, all above will help you purchasing a right web hosting solution for your web site.