By now I’m sure you know how important your choice of web
hosting company is to your business. But just in case you don’t,
let’s review. At first glance, cheap web hosting may seem like a
pretty good deal. Who doesn’t want to save money? However,
there are some areas in which you, as Dmca ignore VPS an online business owner,
just can’t afford to cut corners. Would you put water in the gas
tank of your car just to save money? Choose a cheap web hosting
company and you are doing exactly that. While you can cut
corners in other areas of your business, your web hosting
company is not where you want to do this, if only for one simple
reason: with free or cheap web hosting companies, you are little
more than a number, just another website.
Let’s take a look at how cheap or free web hosting companies
make their money and how they do business. First, how can they
offer such cheap prices? Or even free web hosting? There is only
one answer: volume. They host thousands of websites, some
smaller, some larger than yours. Do you think that in hosting
thousands of websites, they can give you the personalized service
that you deserve? Let me answer that one for you: they simply
cannot. Why? Because the number of sites hosted, coupled with
the low pricing simply makes it an infeasible business practice.
Practically speaking, from a business standpoint, they cannot do
this. It would not make sense to their bottom line. Second, large
web hosting companies generally run lean and mean. That is, in
business 101, they do more with less. They are not going to
provide more people to service more customers when they can do
the same job with less. Granted, customer service will suffer. But
to them, this is a tradeoff that they make up for with volume.
Now let’s look at things from your point of view (an online business
owner). You already know that time is money. You have probably
already figured out that, sadly, time is not on your side. Thus,
every time your site is down you are losing money. Even 5
minutes is too long for your site to be inaccessible to visitors
(potential customers). Online business runs 24/7. Does your web
hosting company understand that? More importantly, when you
have a problem, is your business “just another website” to them?
Or will they take personal ownership of the problem and solve it as
soon as possible? What about follow up? Are you just another
website in the heap? Or will they follow up with you to make sure
that you are a satisfied customer and your site is running
smoothly? Better yet, will they follow up personally, via phone
call? Or will they just send an email – an automated one at that?
Many Internet business owners make the mistake of choosing a
cheap web hosting company, thinking that it will help save them
money. Often, it costs them more in the long run in the form of
downtime, time spent waiting for answers from the hosting
company and lost customers. Below are 6 tips that should tell you
if you are “just another website” to your web hosting company:
* Time – Does your web hosting company have an “open door
policy”? If you have a question, Will they have the answer or will
they refer you to their Help Page URL? As an online business
owner, there is nothing more frustrating than calling the web
hosting company for help and then being told to go to a URL for
help. If your web hosting company does this to you, then you are
just a number to them.
* Accessibility – Is your web hosting company answering the phone
promptly? When they do, who is it? Sales? This is a big tip-off. A
web hosting company that really knows you and cares about your
business won’t automatically try to sell you something and they
won’t hide behind an answering machine or salesperson. A cheap
web hosting company definitely won’t know you by name; they will
know you by the domain that you have with them.