Website hosting isn’t something that your average website owner thinks about – it’s all the same right? Well no actually…
Let’s look at some of the important factors in choosing hosting for your website:
Reliability.
No brainer really – in order for your website to make you money it needs to be online, a web hosting service that has constant outages means that when visitors come to your site they get… nothing. They will move on to other products / services from your competitors!
Speed.
Often overlooked as a factor in choosing website hosting, speed is becoming a major concern for online businesses… Google has already started to factor website speed into it’s ranking algorithms – this means that if you own a slow website it could get a penalty from Google or your competitors (with faster websites) could get a boost above you in the search results. It is also a FACT that just over 75% of online users would leave a site and go elsewhere rather than suffer delays. (data from www.website-speed.co.uk)
Email.
Email can be the life blood of many online businesses, all our hosting packages come with the ability to check, reply and forward your emails from multiple locations. This is called IMAP email and allows you to use your emails in the office, at home or from your email enabled smartphone / tablet at the same time. Once your devices are setup you can receive an email on your phone, reply to it and then continue the conversation when you get back to your office or your home. All emails are stored securely on our servers so you can access them 24/7 from anywhere.
Cost
One of the major challenges businesses face in these hard economic times is keeping costs down, we understand this and although our hosting services are “business class” in terms of features and reliability we try and keep the costs down to a minimum for clients. We do not overload our servers to make a profit, instead we charge what we consider a fair rate for high quality hosting.