How to pick a web hosting company is something we run into quite a bit. I suppose it only makes sense as we are a web development studio. This question can get answered in a few different ways. For this post, I’m going to use the average small business website as my example.

Step 1: Figure out what you’re going to do with your site

All too often, first timers pick their web host by cost. They find some company that offers hosting and a bag of cookies for $2.00/mo and immediately sign up. This is by far not the best idea. It’s much easier to sign up on a good web host then move your hosting from one host to another in the future. The first thing anyone should do is decide what they’re going to put on their site. Maybe a blog? Or perhaps it’s just a 3 or 4 page site advertising your new plumbing service. You might even be thinking something more advanced like an online forum to discuss healthy foods and medicines. Any of these 3 simple website have a wide range of technologies and services needed from the web hosting company. After you’ve figured out what you’re going to do with your site, go to Google and search for a host that supports what you want. So lets just say you’re going to run a small business website on Wordpress. Go to Google and search for “Wordpress hosting.” Start looking through some of the hosts. So thats it for Step 1. Decide what you’re going to do with your site. (more…)

We get asked on at least a weekly basis, “What does 26AM mean?”

So I thought I’d settle the speculations surrounding our studio. Twenty Six AM came about at about 2:00AM one morning about 2 years ago. I was pretty fresh out of college and really didn’t like the name I’d used throughout college: Sudarma Studio. It was 2 in the morning and I was browsing other studio websites and decided to call my new studio: 26AM. 1 year later Josh became the other half of 26AM as our programmer/admin/developer. 26AM really reminds us of the hours that we put in to make great projects. Whether it’s 2 in the morning or 1 in the afternoon, we put in tons of effort to make great sites and designs. And that is how we came up with 26AM. At times a reminder of our humble past and at times a reminder of our desire to work hard.