Choosing a Hosting Provider: Data Transfer
Data transfer or bandwidth usage refers to how much data you send to or receive from your internet account over a period of time. Every time someone views your web page the page is transferred from the web server to the visitor's computer where it is viewed in a web browser. The amount of data transfer your hosting account requires is directly related to the number of visitors to your site, multiplied by the size of your web pages. E-mail and FTP transfers will also go towards your monthly data transfer totals. It's hard to estimate how much data transfer a site will require due to all the variables involved related to your web page requirements. It is rare for a personal or small business site to use more than one gigabyte of data transfer in a month. Netmation single hosting plans will satisfy 99% of customers requirements. Those that have very large data transfer requirements will in most instances require dedicated servers.

Choosing a Hosting Provider: Disk Space
Disk space refers to how much of physical disk storage you are allocated to store your files including but not limited to: web pages, graphics, scripts, and e-mail. Once again, Netmation's hosting plans will statisfy 99% of customer requirements. If you require large amounts of data storage in gigabytes, we can provide dedicated servers to meet your requirements.

Free Hosting Providers
Occasionally you will come across someone on the Internet who is offering a free hosting account. All of these plans will not be suitable for any business hosting and in most likely hood you would not want to use them for personal web page hosting or e-mail. Free hosting may be suitable for learning and fun, but those wishing to create a professional web site will note be satified with the end result. Some of the disadvantages are:

• Free hosts will incorporate forced advertising into each one of your pages. For free e-mail they will put advertisements in each message you send out. This is how they can pay for their services.
• Many will require you to use a sub-account on the host's server, using their domain name instead of your own.
• They will place restrictions on file types that can be served from their free accounts. Most likely you will not be able to host custom script files, movie files, audio, flash graphics or any type of data base application. It is not feasible to develop any type of advanced functionality into your web site.
• No technical support. Support e-mail often goes unanswered and if your lucky you may receive a response after a few weeks.

Reselling and Low Cost Providers
As you browse the Internet you will see many hosting companies offering reseller plans. Many associate resellers with being ripped off. They assume that because they are buying from a second tier they're paying more than they should. Often though, this isn't the case. Many value added resellers are able to provide better support than those businesses specializing in large data center operations and at a better price. Reselling allows web designers and developers to provide clients with hosting plans customized to fit their needs.

Netmation's offers a wide range of services for a diverse set of customers. In order to provide these services at a high level some of our services will contain reseller components. For example our hosting services will be comprised of servers hosted at other ISP's along with our own company headquarters. For example it is not feasible for a single company to provide everything from large data center operations, web page development, and customer support at reasonable prices. By leveraging against large capital expenditures from other companies Netmation is always striving to offer our customers the best quality at the best possible price.