It is important to know that whilst having a great looking website, a lot of us forget to consider having a good website hosting. Hosting is required to ensure your website visitors are able to enjoy a good experience on your website.
If there are too many people and your website specification is not able to handle the number of visitors, it would simply hang and in some cases, your customers will decide against waiting.
We know that Google and Bing, like many search engines, aims to provide fast and good user experience. So, waiting time on your website will surely have an impact on how well your website ranks on search engines.
When you spend a lot of time and effort on marketing your website, don’t fall short on choosing the right website hosting plans. Reducing your website bounce rates are important factors on page ranking and SEO.
Here are some tips to consider on website hosting services
Most hosting providers, like Retail Tech ICS, will offer various types of web hosting and it can be quite stressful to choose the right one. Capacity planning which in other words means, understanding the size of your website including its database and how much traffic you intend to receive.
You will through the life cycle of managing your website have to upgrade and move your websites to different website hosting plans, so don’t worry about getting it right in the first instance.
Here are some most common hosting services in offer:
- Shared hosting is the most common and comes at relatively cheap costing. You don’t access root access to the website server and will be sharing a server, usually with very little space and speed. If this is a basic website, then it’s great to start here.
- VPS hosting allows you to have a bit more server access and resources. This means those running an ecommerce website, should really start on this VPS hosting.
- Cloud & Dedicated hosting are advanced hosting services and used to run powerful websites as well as those expecting good traffic to their website. Usually those would be dedicated and not shared. Gives you root access to the website server and able to do a lot more including multiple domains & websites.
If you choose cloud servers, this is far better than dedicated hosting servers because, usually cloud servers would come with backup servers to ensure your website does not go down.
Website hosting price plans & support services
At Retail Tech ICS, we believe in providing both good pricing and support services. Pricing should not be always the driving factors because, even those expensive website hosting may not be suitable for your business.
For example, we moved one of our customers from Blue Host to our website hosting plans. The customer was paying 5x the value however the server specification did not support the business ecommerce platform. So it’s important for you to check the website your developers have created and consider choosing the right website hosting plans.
Retail Tech ICS offers for all our customers with free migration on all 12 months website hosting plans. Email us at info@techics.com once you have purchased one of our website plans.
Retail Tech ICS provides access to cheap domains, hosting, website builders and marketing tools.
You can find more information at https://retail.techics.com.
Speak to our team on 020 7237 3388.