When you hear the term 'discount web hosting' your first thought may be that the quality of service is diminished. Or it may sound really good to you. Either way you need to understand what the truth is about it before you select the web hosting company to use with your website. Now, there are discount hosting options that are good for your business needs, but most of them are intended more for personal websites rather than business sites. This is because they aren't geared for having the reliability and the capabilities that are required for handling a business site.
We all know that with any type of business, your time is money. This is just as true with online businesses or home-based businesses. If you have a retail store and have to shut your doors for any length of time, you lose out on revenue from potential sales. One big benefit to online business is that it can be automated. Your online store can be open 24/7 year 'round.
So, your website is like your 'store', and anytime it's down it's the same as having a store that's closed. Closed stores don't make sales. So it's very critical for internet businesses to have a web host they can rely on to deliver them no less than a 99.9% guaranteed uptime, even if the hosting they get is discounted.
Lots of new website creators tend to make simple mistakes that, unknown to them, actually jeopardize their effectiveness and reduce their websites potential. One of the biggest mistakes they make is not taking their web hosting serious enough. Discount web hosting sounds really good, just like free web hosting does, and you may think it's a good idea to let them host your website. But there are a lot of other factors to be considered, and they're much more serious than the cost of your web hosting.
Some of the discount packages you may find might be sufficient for the goals you have for your business. The only way you can truly make an informed decision, is to read some reviews and do some cost comparisons. Check out several companies and then compare price and benefits between all of them. Here are a few things you want to find out when doing your research:
- See about options like SSH, CGI, and their FTP access as well as the compatibility or the availability of software and scripts- Check your hosts policies for data retrieval and the procedures- See if they provide you with a cPanel for your administration needs- Check their length of time in business and their reputation- Server speed and bandwidth available- Disk space provided- Find out about their backup policies and all of their procedures- See about their uptime and reliability
Most generally companies that specialize in web hosting mainly for businesses are more reliable and can offer better speed, more reliability, more web space, and more options than any free service or discount service. Many internet providers will discount their services for adding value to the already existing standard services. Because the discount hosting is only secondary, not primary, their services aren't usually as advanced. Many times the discount hosting isn't very reliable due to the internet provider's bandwidth being stretched thin, because its main purpose is providing internet service and not hosting websites.
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