About web hosting
If you value your company website, you need to find a reliable web hosting company that you can trust at the right price.
There are so many out there so who can you trust with your business, well think about it, if you’re a professional company doing business online through your website, would you seriously go for a cheap deal, something like unlimited webspace, unlimited bandwidth etc, it stands to reason that this is not going to provide the service you require.
There really isn’t such a thing as unlimited is there, you think your getting a great deal but in the end, at some point, you’ll wish you had paid a little more to host your business.
Dont forget, nothing in this life is free!
It’s not the easiest thing in the World to move your website to another hosting provider and these cheap hosting providers know this, they entice you in with their low cost and then don’t want to know you when you need support, sometimes you can even wait several days for a reply to your email or support ticket.
They know once you’re in they have a good chance of keeping you, and taking your money year after year.
You need to find a hosting company for your website in the country you live, you can host your website anywhere in the World but you have to think about the time difference, for example, if your company is based in the UK and your website is hosted in the USA, what happens if you need pressing support, say your email goes down and your hosting company are only available 8 hours per day? And what are these hours?
For example, 8 AM UK time is 3.00 AM New York time, this wouldn’t be much use to you if you have a major issue such as your website is down when you get to work at 8 AM, you’re probably going to have to wait for at least 6 hours before you can get any support, this will be 2 PM UK time and most of the day without a website.
If your web hosting is based in your own country there won’t be any issues with calling them, they will be there at the same times you are at work and you must realise that not all hosting companies can operate 24 hours a day.
Ever moved your site from one host to another and been down for several hours or even days? This is why it’s such a big step moving your website and the right decision is critical to your websites accessibility.
Just do your research and try and find any information you can before making that huge step to move your website, getting it wrong can have a serious impact on your business, no website, no emails, will your business suffer?
