Our Franklin digital web design company has been offering website hosting for over thirteen years now. We’ve seen the differences in many other providers and have consistently improved our hosting service to stay ahead of the competition. Here at this time, it makes sense to break down the differences we have seen, how other website companies offer to host, and why companies have vastly different rates from three to 30 dollars per month. If your business is paying substantially more than $30 for hosting, you can still get benefits from this article but most likely your website is larger, more complex, or has heavy traffic that warrants a higher cost. We do that too but you can still read on for more benefits.
Almost any Franklin digital web design company you hire is going to offer website hosting. Yet almost no company is putting your website on a server within their office or owns a data center that they are managing. In every case, that website company is renting a server from another provider and reselling it to other businesses. Typically, this works well for all parties: the hosting provider gets to rent an entire server, the website company makes a little recurring revenue, and the business gets a discount or pays the same fee for a slightly better product. Yet the hosting provider could be renting the server from any website host, most of which have enormous downsides. These can severely affect the quality of your website, conversion rate, and customer experience.
Differences in a good and bad hosting provider
Most Franklin digital web design companies don’t know the differences in a hosting provider because they don’t understand the website code and the server it takes to run the website. A website company often picks the host that they resell by how well they like the control panel and the price they get so they can mark up the cost. We’ve found three stark differences between hosting providers: website speed, security, and support. At Bennett Web Group, we’ve built our hosting model on solving these three issues.
Hosting companies make money by filling their server with websites and not expecting them all to get traffic at the same time. This model is the same one that gym memberships use. Could you imagine if every member showed up at the gym to work out at the same time? The problem, especially with budget hosting, is just how many websites are on those servers. Bandwidth and speed are throttled to ensure traffic doesn’t bring down the server. Additionally, the configuration isn’t optimized for individual websites because it’s a generic setup. This results in a slower website.
With a normal website host, the website owner has permission to do almost anything. This works great for the website company that is reselling the service and the hosting provider that is offering the support, but secretly not so much for the business owner. Some restrictions actually protect the website from easily available hacks and ensure malicious activity is stopped in its tracks.
Getting a great website hosting service that keeps your website secure, makes it twice as fast, and offers support that understands the server and website code is actually possible. To take action and get your website moving in the right direction, reach out to us for a free consultation at thomasgbennett.com or give us a call at 615-678-2699. It is absolutely free to move to our website host and we’ll run a scan on your website to make sure everything is free of malware and running in great shape. Don’t settle for a lackluster hosting provider any longer, reach out for a free consultation today.