Web Site Hosting

Finding the right hosting for your web site is one of the biggest minefields...

You can get free web site hosting which could well have all the capacity and features you need.  You just need to watch out for the terms of the "free" part, for example, there may be advertising on the pages, or a very limited amount of web space, and support is likely to be via online forms only.

You can get low-cost web site hosting from any number of large companies specialising in providing this service.  They have great control panels that allow you a lot of control over your web site, email addresses and so on.  Support can vary greatly, not only from company to company, but also depending on what issues there are with their systems at any given time.  For example, if a main hub gets a fault, and that hub serves 5000 web sites, imagine trying to get through to speak to someone to determine when the problem will be solved. Pricing starts at around £10 per month.

You can get premium web site hosting from a growing number of companies. These tend to focus on the level of support being offered in the event of a hardware problem, and what preventative measures they take to ensure systems are running and secure. You could host your web site on a server which, if there's a fault, automatically switches to the stand-by server, and visitors to your site wouldn't even notice. Geographically diverse redundancy, disk mirroring, failover protection - the list of extra cost options to ensure your site remains up and running are almost endless. Pricing varies from perhaps £200 per month for a good spec, well supported server, to whatever budget you have to spend !

I tend to review each web site on it's merits, and recommend the level of hosting to meet the requirements of the web site and associated business. Nobody wants their web site to go down, even if it's just a brochure site being viewed by a handful of people each week - but the need to balance web site uptime with the costs is a sensible place to start.

I tend to work with a handful of hosting providers. I can manage the whole process for you, or you can register your own domain names and set up web space for your web site, through IDAQ.

If you'd like to discuss hosting for your web site, then please do contact me.

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