With hundreds of web hosting providers present in the market, you might find it difficult to choose the best one among them. Well, if you are facing dilemma of not being able to choose between equally good choices, here are some points which you can check with the hosting provider:

* Cost: How much will you need to pay to the hosting provider for setting up your website? Besides that, are there any set up costs involved? Both these questions need to be answered before you choose a hosting provider.

* After sales support: The hosting provider needs to have a good after sales customer support. This is very important as you might face a problem with your website at any time of the day. The support team needs to be quick enough to reply as soon as possible as it is very important for your business that your website keeps on running continuously with minimum downtime.

* Control panel: When you own a website you may need to perform numerous operations such as uploading or deleting files, adding new stuff and deleting the older one, change design etc. It is imperative that your website host provides you with a user friendly control panel where you can access different options quite easily.

* Email accounts: Check out with your hosting services provider that how many email accounts are being provided in the plan. Better providers tend to have high number of email accounts at minimum price.

* FTP Transfer: There shouldn’t be any limit on transfer of data on FTP as you might need to transfer loads of data using FTP. Though most of the service providers don’t have any such limit, it is advised that you should discuss this point with your service provider in detail. You can make a database of your own by organizing all the service providers along with their features and use it to arrive at the correct decision.