How to Choose the Best Hosting Service for You
Choosing the best hosting service for your needs all depends on what type(s) of sites you intend to have:
Blogs: The main consideration for blogs is finding a host that provides proper scripts for hosting blogs, such as Wordpress. Most hosting providers will have these scripts. Blogs can be setup and maintained using very little diskspace so when considering how much bandwidth you need you will simply need to do a small calculation (visitors x disk space used) to determine if the bandwidth will meet your needs.
Content Sites: Content sites, like blogs, are not likely to take up very much disk space or get close to using up the maximum available traffic in most modern shared hosting packages. When looking for shared hosting for content sites your main considerations will usually by price and reliability.
Image Galleries: Image Gallery sites will likely require a large sum of disk space and bandwidth. Some hosting providers allow up to 15TB of traffic or even unlimited traffic. Although this may cause somewhat slower-than-average loading times at peak hours, these packages are likely ideal to avoid charges for going over bandwidth any given month.
Streaming Audio/Video: Streaming audio and video will require even more bandwidth than an image gallery. You need to take bandwidth into account in a big way. Depending on the formats you’re providing you may even need to think about using a dedicated server in order to ensure that you are not sharing a connection with other customers and therefore causing buffering delays that may lose potential viewers/listeners.
