The market of web hosting and domain name booking is becoming more competitive as the days go by, and this means that the cost of hosting and domain name booking has to come down to deeper depths than they are now. Cheap web hosting is available a dime a dozen, but it is reliable cheap web hosts that are a problem. Remember that a web host is the service that basically runs your website and is responsible for it, and therefore it is their responsibility to offer you certain services. Here are some of the features that have to be present in a webhosting service, however cheap it may be. You can also decide whether you wish to go ahead with dedicated hosting at a later stage.

cPanel:

cPanel is a service that basically gives you a WYSIWYG user interface for the administration of your website. Without cPanel, those out of us who do not have a coding or an advanced internet and networking knowledge would be at sea, and therefore would be at sea.

Fantastico Support:

Fantastico is a service that allows you to use any of the Open Source CMS services like WordPress or Joomla. Using these services, you can concentrate fully on the quality of your website, and not worry about the user experience of the people that visit your website.

Anti Spam Software:

If you have a website or a blog that believes in usergenerated content, you would most certainly have a comments section that is normally used by people to spam your site and users. Make sure that your web host offers you free anti spamming software.