What Is Web Hosting? What You Need To Know.

What Is Web Hosting?

The Difference Between Hosting & a Domain

We recently looked at ‘What Is a Domain?’ in our article on ‘How a Simple Mistake With Your Domain Can Cost You $10 000+‘ and I briefly want to recap before I look at ‘what is web hosting’, since it’s often confused with web hosting.

Your domain name is the name that you type into the browser to get to your website.

What’s Important About Web Hosting?

You require high quality web hosting that is fast, reliable and flexible. When you are using a web hosting service for your website, the major benefit of letting the web designer manage your web hosting is that changes can get quickly done and they can configure everything to ensure that it runs smoothly.

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Part of the ideal web experience is your web hosting solution.

As mentioned there are some seriously technical aspects to ensure that your emails get reliably delivered and are not ending up in people’s spam folders.

On that note, how often do you check that your emails are getting delivered?

What’s The Alternative?

The alternative is that you keep you keep you web designer and web hosting provider separate and you then act as the middle man. The ‘switchboard’ per se.

The designer needs something done, they email you, you email the web hosting company and everybody waits. The web hosting company responds, you forward the response, the designer reviews the response.

Maybe the web hosting company didn’t do it correctly or didn’t understand (happens often!), and the designer then emails you the middleman, you email the web hosting company, and everybody waits again! What a nightmare!

That’s why it’s often good practice to let your web design company manage your web hosting for you.

So the question is which web hosting is right for you?

Then it’s a case of matching your requirements for the web hosting with the various packages they offer. Ideally you should select a server location that is nearest to the majority of your website visitors as this will impact speed as your data has less distance to travel.

Don’t Compromise On Speed

It’s important that you don’t compromise on speed! So whatever you do, let this be a primary decision point.

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Trying to decide between hosting options? Have a look at some of these helpful tips.

One of the most useful articles that I have come across is this great guide on how to choose the right hosting. I’ve outlined some of the concepts, but this article really gets into the nitty gritty details of what you can expect when the hosting provider throws around terms such as ‘unlimited storage’, ‘free domains’ and dealing with questions about backups, long-term contract and the provider’s reputation.

We’ve Mastered This

We’ve perfected the ideal web experience and part of that is your hosting solution.

We offer high quality hosting that is fast, reliable and flexible. We also have servers all around the world, so wherever your clients are based, we’ve got it covered. If you are using our services for your website, the major benefit of letting us manage your hosting is that changes can get quickly done and we can configure everything to ensure that it runs smoothly.

As mentioned there are some seriously technical aspects to ensure that your emails get reliably delivered and are not ending up in people’s spam folders.

On that note, how often do you check that your emails are getting delivered?

As you know our support times are remarkably fast, so if you need anything we’re there to help!

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We provide a comprehensive hosting service that offers high speed performance, great reliability at an affordable price. We have servers around the world and have an amazing up-time record.