• FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions. If you plan on using FrontPage to create and manage your site, then you want your Web hosting company to support FrontPage Server Extensions. FrontPage Server Extensions allow you to easily publish your site without using cumbersome tools such as FTP or the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard. They also provide server-based tools that can be indispensable when creating a Web site for an organization, such as the support for forms, discussion groups, and Web site search capability.
• Disk Space Allotment. Most businesses have small sites, and generally don’t have trouble fitting comfortably in the 25MB of Web space provided by even the most barebones Web hosting plans you might look at. If you plan on having a large number of images, audio, or video files on your site, however, disk space allotment becomes an important issue. You may want to opt for a hosting plan that offers 100MB, 200MB, or unlimited disk space.
• Database Support and Active Server Pages. If you want to use a database on your Web site and dynamically create pages based on data from the database (this is what Active Server Pages are), your Web hosting company needs to support both databases and Active Server Pages. (Setting up a database on your site is a difficult task, although it is something you could hire a consultant to do, after which your business or organization could then maintain it in-house.)
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