One great thing about webhosting is that it is usually quite reasonably priced. Low cost web hosting is not all that hard to find. The challenge is to find something that is both affordable, and reliable.

In this article I'm going to be talking about the pro's and con's of both Shared Web Hosting UK and dedicated web hosting packages. By the end of the article you should have some idea what your online business needs now and what it will need when it expands.

Windows or Linux: Do you know if your site needs to run on a MS Windows server with FrontPage extensions or does it need PERL, PHP or MySQL? These things you will need to find out if you intent to run a successful small business Shared Web Hosting UK site.

So you finally have a site built and online. Time to sit back and watch the hits fly in? Unfortunately the concept of "if you build it they will come" does not apply to Internet.

If this is your first website and you are just getting started on the Web (Internet) you may be confused by all the web hosting offers on the internet. A good rule of thumb would be to do a web search for the term Affordable Web Hosting and from the results returned, go to each company and see what they have to offer and then use the company which you feel has the most Affordable Web Hosting package. It is that simple.

Another thing you should look at is whether or not you want to host multiple domain names with your one hosting package. Both shared hosting and dedicated hosting can allow you to do this. A lot of share hosting services now allow this.

As I mentioned in the opening section of this piece, this has only been a basic outline of a few of the key items with regard to the topic of how to choose the best web hosting. There are just a tiny number of other absolutely crucial factors that you will have to be aware of.