Before You Buy

Companies today are demanding solutions that deliver quantifiable business benefits making their buying decisions based on tangible returns on investment.

As a result of this new focus, web hosting is rapidly emerging as a powerful way to drive increased business performance and efficiency. Let's face it, today's businesses must have an online presence to compete effectively.

Whether or not your company utilizes the Internet as a revenue stream, you can benefit from the right web hosting relationship with a web hosting company on which you can consistently rely. Armed with the right criteria to evaluate hosting services, even a non tech savvy individual can make an informed and quick decision.

WEB HOSTING CHECKLIST

Four tips to ensure you receive the highest standard in Web hosting:

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1 - Security and Reliability. In today's world, with the threat of viruses, hackers, and data thieves, you need extra layers of electronic protection. Make sure that your web hosting provider keeps your data behind firewalls, protected by dynamic encryption and port blocking, and reinforced by a knowledgeable, dedicated security staff. Be certain that your provider offers automatic, fail safe redundancy, so that when a server fails or is disabled by an attack, another will immediately take up the load and continue without interruption.

2 - Service and Support. 24 x 7. When something goes wrong with your service, you will want fast, intelligent answers and the problem resolved immediately, regardless of when it occurs. Consequently, you should investigate your hosting provider's ability to proactively in form customers before t becomes an emergency. Having access to self-help tools and trained technicians enables you to obtain answers quickly and streamlines your process to resolution.

3 - Stability. Your needs are likely to change as your business grows, so the flexibility to upgrade your service is important. Can your Web hosting provider grow with your needs should your business evolve from a starter Web site to a high traffic e commerce site? Does it offer an array of services, including shared and dedicated hosting packages?

4 - Financial Stability. Your Web host is a direct reflection of your business. Be sure to choose a hosting partner with the financial strength to succeed in all economic times. Failure on its part puts your business at risk. Seek a provider that has proven experience in providing business class hosting with a state of the art network, unsurpassed reliability, and superlative customer service.

WHY OUTSOURCE? WHY NOT?

The majority of companies with web sites today are leaving web hosting to the experts, with the cost savings and the need for greater technical resources driving their decisions. Outsourcing to a full service web hosting provider enables you to concentrate on your business and not the technology that underpins it. What's more, you eliminate the expensive up front cost for equipment acquisition, maintenance, and training. We provide our customers with access to secure networks and servers, scalable hosting plans to accommodate your changing needs, faster time to market, technical expertise, and proactive site maintenance and management. Our sustained high service levels, readiness to deploy new technology, and business strategies can help you increase Our Internet derived profits and decrease your web hosting costs.