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We hear this a lot and it is something that is very important to your online success. It might be something you can’t see or touch but believe us if it wasn’t there you would soon know!
Web hosting has been around pretty much since the internet started and over this period of time it has grown as the needs and demands of modern coding and platforms evolve into the great networks we have today. When you have web hosting this not only allows your website to sit on the WWW, but it actually also ensures you have email accounts on your domain name too. So for example if you have the email info@hosting.com then this needs space online to work and store your emails on, all of which comes as part of your hosting package.
So why can’t you do this yourself with your own server? Why do we have to pay a middleman to host your own sites and emails? Well, the answer is really simple, you use the best you can get, you yourself cannot have the expertise of having an online server running with with 99.9% uptime, while keeping it fully up to date for security risks/patches and keeping the hardware updated too. Using a professional service also stores back-ups offsite, meaning if anything happens to the server, that your site is hosted on then nothing is lost and the back-up takes over to stop any down-time. Then there is the demand on you site from the users, too many users and a cheap solution will fall over and not let anyone use your website. Speed of your website is a key issue in regards to it being both user friendly and also search engine friendly as this is all taken into account by Google.
Taken all these things into account then the answer is of course, yes you not only need web hosting, BUT also you should pay more for a fully professional service to ensure it can meet the demands you will put onto it. The benefits clearly outweigh the cost here and depending on which kind of website and system demands you have then using the pros is always best.
A web server basically does its job by being connected to the internet all the time, every time! For security, this means they will be stored in secure surroundings and in a climate controlled environment to receive the best possible performance during all peak times.
With our own hosted secure web servers, when you come on board with our services, you are invoiced from day 1 of domain names being added to our web servers. This allows us the platform to build your new website on and also provides you with email addresses that you want to run via your domain name. SSL is another important part of hosting now. As once it was only online shops/banks and transactions online that required a secure SSL on your website, Google now looks at this as a form of trust and we put an SSL onto every website we create as standard to improve the sites overall results.
Another term you might hear kicking around is cloud hosting, to be honest it is no different really to normal web hosting, it is just a new tech name it was given of late, a kind of buzz word, I will store it to the cloud. For the purpose of web hosting and your emails this is all the one same thing, in fact you could say any server you connect to that is not within your own location is actually then the cloud!
So we hope this helps you understand why you need a professional web hosting in place for your website.