Web Hosting Services

What are the best web hosting services for small businesses?

There are so many web hosting options, what is the best web hosting for your small business?

Web hosting services are one of those things that you “get what you pay for”.  Low budget hosting reflects the quality of hosting and web hosting support you are going to receive.

Many small businesses’ lifeline is their website. If it is slow, offline and constantly pulling you away from your job to address issues, it’s not helping your business grow.

Gimmicks like; free domain name, first month for a penny or unlimited storage may save you (literally) a couple of dollars. Is that worth it for poor service?

The best web hosting for any site is one that meets the needs for your site and provides quality service and phenomenal support.  

Small Business Web Hosting Services

Web Hosting Features to Consider

Web hosting advertising tries to lure you with lots of “bells and whistles” that you don’t need and won’t use.
Consider the following that they don’t meniton.

Fast Website Hosting
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Website Speed

The hardware (web server) that your website is hosted on is a factor in how fast your website will load. Website code optimization is another factor.

How fast your web server can deliver web pages is a bottleneck you do not have control over optimizing further . High-performance hardware means that your web pages are delivered faster.

Reasons to look for a fast web host when you are looking to buy a web hosting package:

  • Users will leave if your pages load slow.
  • Google uses how fast your website loads as a factor in how well you rank in search engine results.
 
 
02

Dependable Service

Small businesses have enough to think about. Worrying if your site is offline, or you can not get a response from web hosting support when something goes wrong is not productive.

Do you think your users will stick around if your web pages won’t load? (How about search engines that are trying to crawl and index your website?)

If you are not getting the service you are paying for, it’s time to move to a new host.  Migrating a website to a new host is not as hard as it sounds.

 

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Small Business Web Hosting
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Secure Hosting

It seems like every day we are reminded about security in all aspects of our  digital lives.  

Secure web hosting needs to be a factor when  searching for the best web hosting service. 

This is especially important if your site is built with WordPress.  WordPress is a big target to get hacked. You need secure WordPress hosting.

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1 on 1 Support

Web hosting is a service, not a tangible good. Reliable and responsive tech support should be a huge factor in deciding on a web host.

Do you get an email response quickly after submitting a request? When you call, do you wait on hold, get frustrated with explaining your issue…?

People tend not to think about this when all is running well.

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What Is Web Hosting

What is the best web hosting service for your website?

Beyond the points mentioned above, the best web hosting for your small business is the one that fits your needs of your website. It depends on more than factors than volume of traffic you receive, amount of bandwidth needed or operating system you want to use.

Since most small businesses don’t have in house tech support, finding quality web hosting is a big part in your search.

You need to consider quality in terms of performance, security and reliability. These are hard to evaluate compared to the statistics a web hosting package provides like x GB of storage and amount of bandwidth you get.

What to Look for When
Buying Web Hosting Services

High performance hardware means that your web pages are delivered fast. Who wants a slow website?

Reliability

With 99.99% proven uptime, your website is going to be “up” and available to your users all the time.

Security

VPS web hosting is more secure than shared hosting because resources are isolated.

Service

If an issue comes up, most of the time I find and address an issue before my customers are even aware.

Learn more about migrating your site to better hosting.

What people say about
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Finding Quality Web Hosting Providers

Running a small business myself as freelance web developer, I need fast, dependable and secure website hosting services to do my job effectively all day.

I have worked on websites hosted on dozens of different web hosting companies. Because of this, I get to evaluate performance, security issues and support hands on. On top of this, I have done countless hours of research to find the best hosting service for my small business websites.

The web hosting service provider I partner with delivers business grade, secure web hosting services that I can depend on to perform day in and day out. I offer this quality website hosting service to my clients so I can provide them best web hosting for their business so I can do my job efficiently. It is frustrating for me to try to provide web programming services when a client’s web site loads painfully slow and support will not help with problems. (I turn away new clients that have their websites hosted with some of the big name hosting providers because it is so frustrating and time consuming for me to do my job.)

Consider the following when looking for web hosting service:

  • Performance
  • Security
  • Knowledgeable Customer Service
  • Fast Customer Service Response Time

You pretty much “get what you pay for” when it comes to buying web hosting services. Cheap hosting pricing usually means cheap service provided.

What Type of Web Hosting Services Do I Need?

I have found that most of my clients do not know how to research what type of hosting they need, and end up being frustrated with the poor quality service their provider delivers. Since the quality of website hosting effects how I can do my job, I began offering web hosting packages to my clients as a value added feature to web development services I offer.

Regardless of the type of hosting you buy, quality is a factor with all of them. Your website’s (and business) livelihood depends on your web host. If the server goes offline, delivers your pages slow, has vulnerabilities, or support does not respond timely, its effects your website/business.

“Business Grade” Web Hosting Services

Shared hosting is the common, low budget service promoted by big hosting companies. They lure you in with gimmicks like unlimited storage and bandwidth, unlimited sub domains, unlimited email accounts… It sounds great, but do you need unlimited subdomains?? Do you need any subdomains? : ) If you’re paying a couple dollars a month for the service, how can they possibly provide a quality product and support?

I provide virtual private server website hosting. (VPS). While it still looks the same – i.e. cPanel and you can still build the same types of websites on them, VPS hosting is different from shared web hosting in several key ways.

I use the analogy of shared hosting is like a college dorm; affordable/cheap but overcrowded and have to share all resources available (showers, lounge…). VPS hosting is more like a condo community. Not as crowded, and you still sharing some resources, but upgraded resources like a community pool or tennis courts.

For you to purchase VPS hosting on your own, it probably would not make much sense from a financial standpoint for a single website’s needs. With a VPS ,you have more control over the web server configuration compared to shared hosting, but need to have the technical knowledge to manage this too. I can offer this higher quality web hosting to you at an affordable rate. You will be happy with dependable and high quality hosting services, I am happy because I can do my job without the frustration of dealing with hosting issues and slow, unknowledgeable support.

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