Web hosting company checklist
There are so many web hosting companies out there, it can be just about impossible to tell them apart. How do you know which ones are going to give your website a secure, reliable home with maximum uptime … and which ones are going to cause untold problems for your website and your company?
Web hosting companies range from one-man-bands through to large-scale corporations, but regardless of size, you can use the following checklist to determine whether they’re likely to provide a good service:
1) Security is a major concern for website managers. Check whether your prospective web host houses their servers in a secure facility.
2) The safe-guarding of your website’s files is also crucial. In the event that the server hosting your website should fail, make sure the hosting company has a system for backing up your website.
3) Find out whether the web hosting company can offer any guarantees to give you confidence in their service levels. Also ask to see any ‘uptime’ statistics to give you confidence that your website is unlikely to crash.
4) Locality is also something to consider, although it’s less important than the security and reliability issues outlined above. It’s usually a good idea to host your website in the country in which you do business. This is mainly for search engine optimisation purposes. When UK customers type search terms into the search engines, for example, the results will prioritise pages from UK-hosted websites.
5) Finally, we recommend you choose a web hosting company that gives you a control panel or a suitable alternative that enables you to administer your website 24/ 7.
This seems like an appropriate moment to mention that NSDesign offers all of these web hosting benefits and many more besides … but to avoid too blatant a plug we’ll leave it there and let you come to us if you happen to be in the market for web hosting.
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