You only need to do a search from within Google to give you some idea of the number of web hosting companies that there are out there all over the world. Hopefully as you are going to be a business user of the Internet, you need to be choosing a hosting company that caters for business users and you should not to be tempted to use any of the free hosting services. So how do you decide?

Well when you choose a company to host your Internet business web site, then you want one that is going to be totally reliable, feature packed and have some top class support to help you with every aspect of hosting your site. Now unless you are building a web site that is going to contain thousands of pages, pictures, music files and video streams, I don't really think you need to concern yourself too much now regarding disk storage size and monthly bandwidth usage. However, your decision should include as to whether you can upgrade your hosting package easily as and when it may be required. By this I mean paying for extra storage and bandwidth should it become necessary, this way you can start on a smaller and cheaper hosting plan and when you grow, your hosting grows with you.

You also need what is called cPanel that also includes Fantastico, this is your main control panel for your web site from where you can easily alter, arrange and set up many, many aspects of your web site including your email addresses, you can set up several email addresses for example, marketing, sales, info, admin etc at yourdomain.com

Now generally most webmasters have a difficulty here in choosing a hosting company, as most always look very similar in terms of what they offer. Which brings me to this point, personally I think you should choose your hosting company from personal recommendations whenever you can as experience can count for a lot. For instance the hosting company I use may not be the cheapest on the market but then again, it's a long way off from being one of the dearest, but it is one of the best. Let me explain briefly a little more of what you should be looking for when deciding on you choosing the right hosting company.

Below I have listed just some of the points from my own hosting company for you to look out for when choosing your own hosting:

You need to look for hosting that can guarantee around 99.9% up time.
Live support you can talk with a live person is a nice option.
24/7/365 phone support as well as email.
Choose your hosting that includes cPanel and Fantastico.
cPanel demo shows you round cPanel that explains everything about it all.
Their cpanel is one of the best in the industry.
Tutorials (some are shown in Flash) covering all aspects of your hosting.
52 scripts that you can easily install that includes from running your own Blog, to having your own forum, to installing your own shopping mall.
There is a knowledge base also that answers a lot of already asked questions.
A user forum where you can ask other webmasters, questions regarding your hosting.
Whether you can pay for your hosting monthly or yearly.
Offer of a 30-day money back guarantee if things should change in that period.