How to Choose a Best Web Hosting Service?

Web hosting features requirement: You need to decide the technical requirements for your website, this including:

Server platform: Windows Platform for Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic scripts, Cold Fusion or Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL database. Unix/Linux platform for Perl, CGI, SSI, PHP or mySQL database

Disk space & Bandwidth requirement: Usally, a disk space with 50MB to 500MB should be enough to meet your hosting requirement. In contrast, if you are hosting a website with huge amount of graphic pictures, mp3 or video files, then you should choose a web hosting plan that provide huge disk space, for example, 500 MB to 1,000 MB.

A website that expect to generate high traffic will consume the monthly bandwidth allowance very fast. If so, you will need to find one web hosting service that offer huge bandwidth with 50 GB to 100 GB per month.
Reliability and scalability: Choose a web hosting service that guarantee at least 99% server uptime with high-speed Internet backbones using at least OC3 (Optical Carrier) lines (155 Megabits per second) or above instead of T1 or T3 lines.

Customer service and support: Choose a web hosting provider that offers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week technical support that fstaffed by experienced technicians, so that any web hosting problems will be resolved within a reasonable amount of time.