Dave Chakrabarti Footnotes in Technivism

So you're an individual about to start a site, or a small business or nonprofit with a very tiny budget for website development. You've found a volunteer or an affordable professional to handle the development work, and now you're looking to find a place to host your site. How do you find the right company?

HostPC is an organization I started working with about three years ago, when the Nirman website's hosting company started to spiral. It's always rough on clients when a website hosting company dies...this one was no exception, with many of us left with no warning as the company went under, left with nonfunctional sites while the dishonest crooks did a runner with our money.

Before you start, you should know that choosing the right place to host your site is a time-consuming, difficult, and crucial task. You can do it quick and dirty, and just pick the first reasonably cheap service you come across. I did this, for the original incarnation of the Nirman site.