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- What is my monthly budget?
- Do I need my own domain, or would a free service such as offered by Blogger suffice?
- How much space do I need?
- Less important: how much bandwidth will I use?
- What server technology will I use (ASP, PHP, .Net, MySQL, etc)?
- What uptime, security, support and backup guarantees does the host offer?
- How satisfied are current customers?
- How fast are the servers? Can I test a file transfer?
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