A schoolmate of mine in my poly days just ask me to do a paid review about his hosting service called Vodien. It’s a localized Singapore Web Hosting company since 2002 and I remember during my younger days as a student it was just a simple site. Today, it has grown to a really established web hosting company. I thought since I will be reviewing his web host I thought I give you some tips of choosing a web host.

Here’s Screenshot Of The Website

To be frank, this is really one of the cheapest localized Singapore Web Hosting package you can find in Singapore. Personally I like their new layout and clean layout of the site and it’s easy to navigate around the site.

There are many web host companies out there but before you go a head and choose a web host here are 4 important key points to take note when selecting a web host.

1. Allows Multi-site / Multi-domain hosting

Many people these days have more than one website, and it’s important to know especially when you want to run an online business your hosting plan must allow you to include more then 1 domain on your host. Great new is that Vodien does offer the ability for every customer to host multiple domains / multiple websites on just one single plan.

2. You Will Need Large Disk space and Good Bandwidth

When running a full time online business you want to ensure you get lots of these two things which are large disk space to store your files and lots of bandwidth. A typical web page would normally have a size about only 10kb so if you have 100s of those - that would be 1,000KB which is also 1MB.

The recommend amount of disk space you should get should always be at least 1GB of space which you can store well over 100s of pictures and web files.

For bandwidth, the recommended amount would be at least 20GB per month. Which also means that your website only allows 20GB of information to be transfered onto the internet each month. This would allow about 200,000 visitors to your site till the bandwidth quote runs out & resets every month.

For Vodien, they are pretty smart and they actually offer large disk space plans (Standard plan 2gb @ $10 per month) and it also comes with unmetered data transfer. So you guys can host all your websites with them without having to worry about hitting quotas. Here’s screen shot of the plans they have.

You can find out more about the plan at this link here

3. Ensure Your Hosting Plan Has Database Features To Install Scripts

If you are thinking of running a blog on wordpress, you would not want to host your website on a web host that does not give you database features. Also another thing to know, you got to ensure it also support file formats like PHP & ASP is which a really common language for web programming.

In most cases, web hosting companies will provide two versions of web hosting. One of which is a Windows based web host or a Linux based web host. From experience I would say go with the Linux based web host as it’s more stable then the Windows based and it’s less prone to viruses ( Yes even web hosting companies has viruses! ).

4. Ensure It Has Fantastico

There are many web hosting companies out there, especially those really cheap ones that do not have Fantastico provided in the plan. Having that feature is pretty important because in Fantastico bundles with over 40 over free programs you can install on your web host.

Here are just a list of them I used before
- Wordpress ( Blogging Software )
- Oscommence ( Setup Your Own Shopping Cart Site )
- OpenTicket ( Ticketing System )
and much more..

With Fastastico you really save lots of money instead of paying hundreds of dollars on scripts.

Summary

I would say Vodien has pretty reasonable rates if you are looking for a Singapore based server. However, if you have intentions to do business outside of Singapore, I would recommend using a USA based server instead as the speed download will be much faster. Overall I would still get one myself as I can used it to stream local videos so much faster!

I hope you find the tips useful and if you need more details of what Vodien has to offer you can visit www.Vodien.com. Do leave your comments below if you have any

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