What Hosting Environment Do I Need?
If you have a high bandwidth website (thousands of visitors a day) you may need to invest more into hosting, but the majority of small business will find that Linux virtual hosting is more than enough for their website needs.
The server should be a LAMP environment in order to allow for PHP and MYSQL scripting, and to allow applications, content management systems, and open source software to be able to be installed.
Most hosting packages for small businesses cost less than $10 a month, but this can vary depending on other needs such as email capacity, traffic bandwidth, and server power for application processing.
