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Web Hosting: Things You Need for a Business Site

In business, a website can be a large source of revenue. As a business owner, a website can help us promote our services and products, build a positive online presence and reputation as well as gain more customers and sales. Therefore, in building a business website, we must wisely consider several important things that influence the quality of the website, including the contents, design, technology and web hosting as well.

However, although people can do well in the matter of contents and technology of the websites, but many of them fail in choosing the right web hosting to accommodate all the needs of their websites. Of course we don’t want to fail in the same thing. Therefore we must be proactive in ensuring the reliability of web hosting service that we are going to choose. Yes, we realize that we do not have a strong budget like other large scale companies. But, it does not mean we cannot get the best web hosting service that can meet all our requirements.

Speed and uptime is everything
Our website is our company, and it should open 24 hours a day to serve anyone. A lot of downtime period and slow access speed can give bad impression to customers and visitors, therefore the service uptime, bandwidth management and connection speed should be our number one priority in choosing web hosting company. Make sure they guarantee these as long as possible (at least 30 days guarantee), or leave them if they don’t. A good hosting company should also give clear information about the specification of their servers and backbone connections, such as the type of Server CPU, Optical Carrier lines, etc.

Considering the budget, what we can do
In general, there are 4 kinds of hosting plans, they are budgeted hosting, shared business hosting, dedicated server hosting and VPS hosting. For a starter business that has a low budget, there are two options to choose, a budgeted hosting or a shared business hosting. However choosing a budgeted hosting is not recommended for business or eCommerce site, but it’s okay if we have budget no more than 8$ a month. But if we can raise the budget a little bit higher, just choose a shared business hosting for a greater bandwidth and features. In the beginning we can choose the basic plan (about $10 a month), and if the business has grown bigger, we can raise the budget to buy the pro package ($15 to $20 a month). Meanwhile, a VPS hosting is very suitable for small businesses that need more than a shared business hosting but are unable to buy a dedicated one. Yes, A VPS hosting can give us reliable bandwidth and server uptime as well as special features that are usually reserved for dedicated servers. For comparison, we can get a VPS hosting packages start from $50 a month, meanwhile we need more than $200 a month to get a basic dedicated server hosting package.

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