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Beginners Guide To Choosing A Hosting Plan
Without web hosting, your website can never reach the outside world. Hosting is the essential link between your website and the Internet, but can often become a baffling annoyance.
Unless you are technology savvy, it is very hard to understand the technical specifications and jargon which you need in choosing the right hosting package to ensure you make the right decision.
However, sometimes choosing the right hosting package can involve making important business decisions based on information that it seems require you a year at night school to understand.
Wouldn’t it be nice to understand what it was you were paying for? Wouldn’t you feel more confident knowing how each figure and impenetrable word benefited your business?
This guide may not answer all your questions, but we hope it will provide a window into the world of web hosting.
What is web hosting?
If your computer was a TV, the domain name would be the channel button on your remote, the hosting provider would be the TV station and the host server would be the video bank at the TV station broadcasting the recorded programs you watch. Therefore, the server stores your website and broadcasts it to any Internet browser that enters the domain name. But servers can be configured to provide a number of different website types.
In order to clearly understand how a particular hosting package can benefit you, the goals and needs of the website should be planned in advance.
How do I choose the best hosting company?
As you may aware, there are number of hosting companies available for you to use ranging from small to big companies. Big companies always argue that it is better to go with big companies because they have the resources to answer and resolve your issue quickly compare to small hosting companies. However, you will soon realise that you get far more better personalised and friendly customer service with a reputable small companies.
You may also aware that it is possible to host your website anywhere in the world. However, you will find that choosing a local hosting company can have greater advantages. Dealing with a hosting company in the US can be frustrating: long distance calls are expensive and email support can often be slow and unhelpful outside of US business hours. If your website is suffering costly delays during Australian business hours, you don’t want to wait for New York to wake up before it can be fixed.
Reliable hosting provider should have enough backup safeguards to ensure your website available at least 99.9% of the time.
There is no golden rules when choosing a hosting company. However, we believe that you should consider the following ingredients:
- Customer service.
- Their current customers’ feedback about their services.
- Easy communication with the hosting company that speaks English instead of technical jargon.
- Reliability of the hosting setup.
- Your business needs.
What do I need to consider when choosing a hosting package?
There are a number of factors to consider when deciding on the best value hosting solution for your website. It is important to not only understand your current goals, but have an idea for how the website is likely to evolve.
In choosing a hosting plan, there are few key considerations that you need to consider such as data storage, data transfer, bandwidth, databases and scripting technology.
At Vertu Technology, we make our hosting simple. We categorised our hosting packages to:
- DNS hosting services only.
This package is suitable if you only want to park your domain at our server and host your web and email internally at your office or external server.
- Email & DNS hosting services only.
This package is suitable if you want to park your domain at our server and host your web internally at your office, but you want to host your email from our server.
- Linux hosting service or Windows hosting service
This package is suitable if you want to host your DNS, email, and website at our server.
- All our hosting packages feature:
- Instant setup and activation of all accounts
- Easy to use control panel
- Unlimited Traffic (fair use policy)
- Choice of web statistics package
- 24 hours monitoring with all our servers
- Unlimited support
- 100% Australian owned
- Flat rate pricing. No hidden fees
Click here to see the full details of our hosting services.
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