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After we build your fantastic new website, it will need to be “hosted” to appear on the internet. There is typically an annual web hosting cost associated with this that the hosting company charges you. As a service to you, PWD has its own dedicated servers where we host many client sites for a nominal fee. But you certainly don’t have to do your web hosting with us. Read on for more information about this web hosting service and the benefits of different hosting plans.
All sites found on the internet must be put on a special kind of computer that has an “address” known to the internet. This “internet server” is simply a computer set up for this kind of thing. This web hosting computer may have hundreds of sites on it. It’s probably easiest to think of the server as an apartment building. The sites would then be considered tenants, or apartments. For your site to live there (hosted there), you have to pay rent. The owner of the server would be considered the landlord, or the “HOST”. The landlord must provide some basic necessities to its tenants such as a certain level of security and upkeep.
In keeping with our apartment building analogy from above, not all apartment buildings, landlords, amenities and neighbors are alike. Cheap website hosting companies typically put a lot of domains on their servers, don’t provide the level of security or resources you might need and don’t really care who they rent to.
These things might seem like no real issue to you, but consider these common, real-life web hosting problems you very well could experience. First of all, let’s look at your neighbors; the hundreds or thousands of other sites that share your server. Cheap server rates tend to attract unscrupulous neighbors. That means people who build scam sites and who do a variety of illicit activities from the web hosting server they are on. There are a LOT of them. So who cares what they do in the apartment next door, you might ask. Well, what they do affects the entire server or building. When they get caught or banned for their activities, internet security companies and search engines will blacklist the entire web hosting server address. That means your site will no longer appear on the internet for many, if not all people trying to visit. Typically, these people will see a message that this site has been deemed harmful or dangerous to visit. It’s really not a good look for your business. And it takes a lot of effort to get your site whitelisted again.
Then there’s the issue of lagging support time. You are simply a number to these cheap web hosting providers. They will commonly take a server down to install updates or to fix a wide range of issues caused by your bad neighbors. And they do this without warning so it could be down without your knowledge and without any recourse. Then because you are only worth a few bucks a year to them, tech support is virtually non-existent. When we try to help a client with their web hosting issues with these cheap web hosting companies, we usually have to complete a “trouble ticket” which can take many days for them to get to and several more for them to actually fix the issue. So, if your website being down for a week or more at a time isn’t a big concern for you, then the savings might actually be worth it.
Quite frankly, we quickly grew tired of hosting companies taking too long to fix an issue with one of our client’s sites. The clients would get angry at our design team for not being able to find a solution faster and we were at the mercy of the web hosting company’s lack of response. We also spent a lot of time trying to help clients get off of blacklists caused by living on a server that houses sketchy other sites.
Having our own private servers and offering our own dedicated hosting plans means we have complete control. We only host sites that we’ve developed. So you know you’ll have good neighbors. We also have immediate, 24-hour access to fix any issues that might arise. Most importantly, we can do that within minutes or hours instead of days or weeks. That makes for happier clients and fewer sleepless nights for everyone. Get the best web hosting service around for your business' website.
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