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Cheap Hosting vs. Complete Hosting
Hosting. We all need it.
And prices vary wildly. So what do you get for your money?
Unfortunately hosting falls into that annoying category of 'You get what you pay for'.
Free Hosting
That's right. Gratis, nothing, nada. Why bother paying for hosting when you can get it for absolutely free!
But there's a catch (isn't there always?). If someone's giving you something for free they generally want something in return. In this case it's usually a sub domain on someone elses hosting.
E.g. parkersmedia.freehosting.com
Would you really want your customers to know that you're on a free hosting site?
It doesn't stop there. It's likely you'd have to advertise the free hosting site within yours. Possibly either in the header or footer. You definitely won't get an kind of proper email account with it so you would have to stick to your home account of hotmail or aol.
Not very professional looking is it?
Cheap Hosting
Type 'cheap hosting' into Google and it'll bring up thousands of results (78 million of them to be exact). And they're incredibly competitive. What do you get for your hard-earned pennies?
You actually get quite a lot. One of the first one I saw gives you a generous 10gb of web space and 100 email addresses.
Great, so let's go with that, then!
Well, hang on. There's a few downsides to this.
If you have your internet connection with one of the larger corporations, enticed by the low, low price then you'll completely understand what we're about to say here.
- You're one of tens of thousands of customers; another name in a database.
- If something goes wrong, you can only communicate by email, with a promise of a 48 hour response.
- Your site can slow to a crawl at peak times, or early afternoon when the USA wakes up.
- When you want to expand your site and add new facilities, you may suddenly realise that your hosting is not equipped for it and they'll have to 'move you onto the premium package'; suddenly not so much of a saving.
- There's usually a minimum sign-up contract.
- You get hosting space, that's it. If you're expecting any kind of personal assistance, forget it.
They draw you in with promises of a massive amount of hosting space and more email accounts than you can shake a stick at.
But in truth a standard company website very rarely reaches 2% of that capacity, and how many companies do you know with 100 seperate email addresses?
A cheap hosting account is only good if you know exactly what you're doing regarding uploading and downloading your site. If you need some assistance, expect to either do a lot of research online or sit back and wait for their technical support to get back to you.
Complete Hosting
The very best and easiest hosting solution. All the catches, headaches and hassles are suddenly removed.
First and foremost you've got a person on the other end of the line. They know your first name and they know everything about your site. So if anything is wrong there's no hold music, no automated telephone navigation, no 'Please hold, your call is important to us' you're just calling someone up.
With complete hosting you will be provided with everything you need. This includes:
- Setting up your hosting space.
- Help in setting up all email accounts and forwarding to mobiles and laptops.
- Making sure you're on the right package to start with.
- Uploading your site for you and telling you when you can view it.
- Maintaining your site making sure nothing goes wrong or down, or fixing it the instant it does.
- No minimum term contract. Leave when you like.
- Sorting out your domain name for you so it forwards to the correct hosting space.
- Speak to your previous hosts on your behalf to get your site moved over.
- Advising on practices regarding your site and domain name that benefit you. Not just to drive sales up.
If this sounds like something you need then Parkers Media can help.
We provide all of these hassle-free solutions and much more. Call us now on the contact details below and you'll see just how easy hosting your website can be.