One issue that comes up every day for us is the question of the most appropriate method of hosting for clients websites. It boils down to the following key question, if your website was offline would your business suffer a loss of revenue?

It is in a way the same as the question about insurance for your business. Is it worth not protecting your business from the effects of property damage or staff litigation? So why is it not worth insuring your sole source of revenue from the possibilities of your website being offline? Obviously with anything relating to web hosting It is not possible to get 100% uptime but 99.9% is achievable and supportable by a service level agreement. Unfortunately this is only available on server infrastructure dedicated to your business. Traditional hosting relies on sharing a server amongst up to 500 websites per server meaning that the potential for that server to crash or go offline because of something happening on one of those customers' is multiplied by hundreds of times. Whilst this kind of hosting can be wry cost effective for small businesses who have simple websites that are mainly brochure sites or websites that do not sell on line, it is not really suitable for websites that are more resource intensive or business critical.

Dedicating a server to your website may seem expensive to start with but, like insurance, the question should not even be treated as optional. If you run an e-commerce website or your business would suffer loss of revenue from the website being offline it should be the first thing that you set up. Paying £45 a year for web hosting is a good deal but you should be accurately budgeting £150-200 per month for your website infrastructure to ensure the maximum protection for your online business,

Find out more about how cost effective the right hosting for your business can be - call us today on 01538 750 538!

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