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.

Typically, web hosting companies put bandwidth limitations on websites they host. This is like heavy traffic moving on a two-lane street between the server where your website is hosted and your visitors’ computers. Traffic jams and distance slow the load speed of the content, making your website appear to load slowly. For example, if someone in the UK is visiting your website hosted in California, videos, images, and downloads will load slowly – this is frustrating and inexcusable to visitors who are trying to access your services.

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.

Instead of sending your website content via a two lane road, FireHost’s content delivery network sends your website content to visitors using multiple “super highways” spanning the globe. FireHost’s CDN ensures your website’s heavy, bandwidth-intense content (including videos and images) loads smooth and fast for every visitor from the servers nearest to their location. This means higher customer satisfaction and a dose of good will for your company’s brand. CDN also means lower bandwidth costs, higher sales, and a healthy balance in your business checking account.

FireHost CDN provides these benefits by hosting your content from 45 locations throughout the world.

Our network spans:

• Five Continents: North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

• Ten Countries: The United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, China, The Philippines, and Australia.

• Twenty Three Cities: Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, San Diego, Scottsdale, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, and more.

Our global CDN network is optimized for live video streaming, high definition video, and other large media files to provide visitors with an exceptional experience, wherever they are located.

FireHost’s CDN delivers a high performance solution with flexible contract terms and usage-based pricing to enable your company to secure an invaluable national or global advantage at reasonable prices. Learn more at FireHost.com.