Finding a Hosting Company (Part 1) (April 29 2007)
It is becoming harder and harder for good people to find a web hosting company. There are more choices out there now then ever before, there are also more gimmicks.
With Summer, comes the end of School for all ages of people. The start of Summer represents a mass increase in options on where to host a website, as every Summer the amount of web hosts go up however the amount of web hosting companies remains the same. The difference? Just because someone decides to put up a web hosting web page, does not make them a company.
So what make a real legitimate company? A legally registered company with the local government.
A couple ways you can identify a legit company:
1) If you ask the company you are signing up with is there any applicable tax. For instance, if the company was in Canada, and I signed up I would have to pay the 6% GST tax. If the company is not charging me tax, this would imply that they are either a small company (that makes less then $30,000 a year) or they are not a legal company.
2) Check provincial or state websites to see if they are registered. On Prince Edward Island, the government allows you to search the Island's Business Names Registry (type in dotServing as the name and you will see our company come up), the reason it shows the registered date of Jan 15 is because in order to change your company name on PEI, you must register as a new company, there is no modify option.
