Website Hosting – The Basics
HOW EXCITING!! Wait — Website Hosting? That’s not exciting…
But what IS exciting is that we’re covering the Website Hosting basics for you, and including our favorite Hosting solution too, so you don’t have to research. This article covers: What is Website Hosting, Why you need it, and Which Website Hosting solution is best.
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Quick Summary
- What is it? Website Hosting is where a website lives, on a web server.
- Why is it needed? So that your website can be served optimally on the internet.
- Which Hosting solution is best? Our research found Bluehost Hosting best for small to mid-size businesses.
What is Website Hosting?
Website hosting is where a website lives – on a web server. A web server ‘hosts’ the website. Also, a web server can host one or more websites on the same server. This is called “Shared Hosting” and is most economical. A Dedicated (Web) Server is for a single website, and costs more, for the power and flexibility. Usually a Shared Hosting solution suits small to mid-size businesses well.
Why is Website Hosting Important?
In order for people to find you on the internet, your website needs to be hosted on a web server. Hosting companies have high performance web servers to serve-up websites optimally. Speed is important to your visitors – they don’t want a slow loading website, and hosting contributes to the website load time. Many other factors contribute to load time – but we’ll save that for another article.
Which Website Hosting is best for small businesses?
We work with small to mid-size businesses and their WordPress websites, so finding the best WordPress Website Hosting solution for our clients is a top priority.
We use Bluehost Hosting, a leading Website Hosting solutions company, for our website. Why? Many reasons, but here are the three main ones:
- They’ve been around long enough to know how to do Website Hosting well – and they’ve shown us that through our experience with them.
- They have an easy 2-step setup process for getting hosting and your WordPress installation in place.
- Their pricing is very economical.
What’s REALLY GREAT is that many times they offer a FREE Domain, FREE SSL and FREE CDN (using a CDN is a website best practice). We like the Shared Hosting Plan for small businesses since you get what you need and the price won’t break the bank. To get started, visit their website here. Their wizard walks you through the easy setup and WordPress installation.
They also have other hosting options for those who want or need more, like the dedicated server we mentioned earlier.
Final Words
There are many Website Hosting solutions out there and some have really great plans but fall short in other areas like price, packages, or support. We hope you found this information helpful.
And when you are ready to get that WordPress site developed, book a call with us. We look forward to it!