Selecting a hosting provider is one of the biggest decisions a company makes when developing and establishing an online presence. With thousands of choices available, it can be tempting to jump into a contract with a cheap hosting provider and hope for the best. After all, it only matters that your company website is on the internet, right? Not quite.
Those five dollar hosting plans may be fine for smaller, personal websites, but you will not be satisfied for long if your livelihood depends on your website. Cheap web hosting companies typically put artificial constraints on space and resources. This may suffice if you only need enough space for a few static pages and bandwidth to cover a handful of visitors every month. However, for SMB’s that have bigger goals for their company, cheap hosting is not the answer.
Companies need more bandwidth to serve customers and more storage space for high-quality content. If your company hopes to market internationally, then there are benefits to establishing a content delivery network, so your international prospects visit a website optimized for an exceptional experience, no matter where they are located around the world.
You should also consider a host who provides secure e-commerce hosting and dynamic database security as an additional measure for insuring both you and your clients’ personal information is protected.
If online marketing efforts are successful, your website may experience the DIGG effect and become suddenly popular through the social networks. As your business succeeds online, your web host should provide burstable bandwidth on high performance servers in a redundant network infrastructure, so prospects and clients are never negatively impacted by website performance. Remember, your website is an extension of your business and your brand. An unsecured, poor performing website may have the same impact on a prospect as bad customer service over the phone.
FireHost caters to businesses of all sizes and special needs by providing enterprise-level hosting solutions such as Google Search Appliance, Exchange email services and Telligent Community Sever to help your business flourish.
Securing data is imperative and should never be left up to chance to save a little money. There is a measurable price on turning site visitors into customers, creating real value to fast and secure web hosting. Don’t roll the dice on a cheap, consumer-grade hosting plan, contact a FireHost professional today.
The solution to this problem is called a Content Delivery Network or CDN. A content delivery network is a system of servers networked together and cooperating to deliver your website content to visitors around the world faster.
