Why Choosing the Best Web Hosting is Important

Having a sluggish checkout process is one thing, but even worse – downtime.

Emergency server maintenance throughout peak trading hours could cripple your sales. When you’re growing a business, uncertainty is not something you can afford to bet on.

For some of our clients in the finance space, a core consideration (that’s easy to overlook) is that their customer data is required – by law – to be stored in Australian-based data centres.

Because of this, international web hosts – while they may be quicker and cheaper – simply aren’t suitable to work with (and if this is you, take note of the data centre locations we’ve included in our rankings).

Shared hosting vs dedicated hosting

Shared hosting plans allow you to save on hosting costs by sharing storage, bandwidth and resources with other sites (and other customers) on the same server.

Most, if not all hosts will offer shared hosting plans by default. While they’re suitable for most small business websites, they’re not without their drawbacks.

For example, if one site on your shared server experiences a large influx of traffic, there’s a chance that your site too (and all other sites on that server) could also experience downtime. Domino effect!

If you anticipate or know that your new website will exceed 100,000 visitors per month, or your sales are critically reliant on your website’s uptime, it’s worth looking into dedicated hosting. Unlike shared hosting, with dedicated hosting, your business leverages 100% of the server’s resources (rather than sharing them between multiple sites).