6 Points to Consider When Choosing Hosting for Your Website

Choosing the right hosting for your website is key to its ongoing success. Without the correct hosting, even a really well designed and developed website can have poor performance. Below I have outlined the main and most important factors to look into when choosing any website hosting:

• The Requirements of Your Website – The hosting your website needs to run smoothly and achieve optimal performance and security is very much unique to your site. If you can understand what the requirements of your site is, its easier to find the right hosting. If you are unsure of the requirements, it's always best to speak to a trusted company who can give you honest advice. 

• Quality of Customer Service/ Support – This can sometimes be checked by looking at reviews. It is crucial that the hosting provider you choose offers good support to help you out with any questions or issues. If this can’t be found out from reviews, then a phone call to that company asking about their level of service support is another way of checking. You should also check whether any support you receive would be covered in your payment or if it would cost you extra.

• Backups – Having regular full backups of your website is extremely important. It means that should anything ever go wrong and your website break for some reason then you have a recent backup that can easily be restored. This gives you an extra security feature. Should your website ever be compromised, it minimises any downtime and avoids any significant losses.

• Available Upgrades – Whilst you may start off with a shared hosting package, as your business grows, and your website attract more traffic you will need to look at a more dedicated plan. It is essential to ensure you can easily upgrade your hosting and receive the support to migrate your website to dedicated hosting which will give your growing site a lot more resource. If there is no way of simply upgrading your hosting package, it will likely mean you have to choose another provider which would cost you more time and money.

• Security Features – Will the security of your website be a priority? Secure hosting is essential to ensuring the ongoing security of your website. You should ensure your hosting includes SSL certificates (Check out this blog for more information on SSL certificates: Why Are SSL Certificates An Essential Part Of Web Hosting? ) and all the necessary firewalls, antivirus/malware protection and monitoring. 

• Speed & Resources – Does the hosting have the necessary power and resources to optimise the performance of your website? After analysing what the requirements of your site are, it is vital to ensure that the hosting server meets and even exceeds those requirements so there is some room for the growth of your website.

Reliability and uptime are also important to consider. These details can be obtained from any hosting provider and should be looked at. If your business is reliant on your website is up and running smoothly then you won’t want to look at any hosting with less than 99% uptime. Anything below 99% should be avoided as it could result in lost revenue for your business. 

At Guzzbury Studio, we only offer premium hosting and will analyse your website to find the best package for you. We take the security of your site very seriously and all our hosting comes with SSL certificates and regular backups as standard. Contact us for help with your hosting: hello@guzzburystudio.com