Web Hosting For Small Businesses: What You Need
So you’re setting up an online business: which web hosting solution is for you?
As veterans in the web hosting industry, we’ve met more than a few small business and startup entrepreneurs in our time. We know the web hosting business inside out, and we’ve been helping entrepreneurs make the best decisions for their web presence for almost two decades.
If you’ve made the decision to leap into the world of online business, you’ll likely have a few questions about just what web hosting solution is for you. If you don’t have the technical expertise to build, run and manage your business website and its techie back end yourself, then you run the risk of falling flat on your face if you try to make a go of things on your own. However, this is where we come in. Our experts can help you decide on the best web hosting solution to empower your business to success.
Here’s a few things you need to know when getting started with small business website hosting:
You need support
Even if you’re technically quite proficient you are unlikely to know everything it takes to keep a web hosting server running. Managing server updates, maintenance and any hardware or software malfunctions will give the most advanced techie a headache, and you will certainly have plenty of other things to be thinking about what with running the front end of your website and your business. UK2’s Tech Support team are on hand around the clock to help with any technical issues with your web hosting, and you’ll thank them for it if you suffer a server outage.
You need uptime
Uptime is essential for your business website; if your site goes offline then your potential customers won’t be able to find it. This is why the web hosting package you opt for is so important, as if your site is too large or receives too much traffic for a shared server to handle you’ll see increased uptime due to overloading. Once your site outgrows shared hosting, then investing in a more robust hosting solution is the next step for you; the money invested will be paid back in kind by the increased sales on your website. Uptime builds trust, so don’t break it.
Cheapest isn’t always the best route
A cost-effective shared hosting solution may be the best choice for your business website when you’re just getting started, but the problem is that it is just that: shared. You’ll be sharing resources with a number of other websites, and if one of those sites receives a spike in traffic, your site could go down as a result. Investing more money in the power behind your site is good business practice; a dedicated server hosting solution will provide you with ample resources to keep your site live on the web around the clock.
Consider your options
There are several hosting options available to you, each of which has its own benefits. Depending on how large and how popular your site is (or potentially could be) you can opt for a shared hosting solution, VPS Cloud hosting solution, SSD VPS hosting or dedicated server hosting. To find out more about how each solution could empower your business to succeed simply click the links on the corresponding name.
Consider your needs
Are you going to sell something online? Or is your business website simply a place to provide information to your customers? This question is important when considering which web hosting solution is for you, as more advanced websites require more resources to run them.