Web Hosting Terms & Conditions - Do you actually read them?
Tags: Billing, Hosting, Hosting Terms Conditions, Uptime, Web Hosting Business
Every hosting company has a terms & conditions section in their website, if your hosting company doesn’t has one - something could be wrong with the management! Anyway! Did you actually read the terms & conditions of your hosting company before you signed up with them? Or, just like a software license agreement that we all blindly agree to, you assumed that you will never need to worry about it and choose to ignore it.
Terms & Conditions section is like an agreement that you mutually agree upon before getting into a contract with a hosting company and you MUST read them before signing up. Here’s a list of important things you should never ignore in the terms & conditions section of your hosting company.
Payment terms - What you paid at the time of signing up for an account may not always remain the same. Terms & conditions page reveals the impact on you if the hosting charges are increased or decreased in the future.
Account cancellation - Read the conditions carefully before you signup for an account. Some web hosting companies require that you tell them seven days in advance of the next billing cycle while others who accept paypal may require that you cancel the billing from Paypal.
Resource usage restrictions - Small hosting companies don’t look at it but big hosting companies tries to measure everything they can. CPU cycles, memory, disk space, mysql user sessions etc can be measured. If you plan to run a forum, you should not skip the terms & conditions page of your host.
Uptime commitment - It should be anywhere 99.9% onwards and there is a big difference between 99% uptime and 99.9% uptime. You may be interested to see what uptime your hosting company has to offer and what they will do in case they do not meet their SLAs.
What you read above are only some of the important points that you should know before you signup with a hosting company. If you think of any other point that should a part of the list above, please post it in the comments section below.
[tags]Billing, Hosting, Hosting Terms Conditions, Uptime, Web Hosting Business[/tags]
