Web Hosting in Cape Town

Web hosting is a very competitive industry and there are a great many different companies offering this service.  It is vital that you choose from this bewildering array of options the service that is going to be able to meet the needs of your business.  Understanding the needs of your website is a very good start towards making the right decision in partnering with a web hosting provider.

Does your website have so many visitors that it will need to be located on it’s own server, or could it possibly share a computer with other websites?  Does your company have the technical resources to independently manage a server or do you need the web hosting provider to assist you with the management of the computer?

These are important questions to ask because they will directly affect the monthly cost of your hosting package.  And that in turn affects the profitability of your website.  You really don’t want to be paying for services that you’re not going to be needing, and conversely you don’t want to be constrained by an overly restrictive hosting package.

Cheap budget plans can cost as little as a few rands a month and upscale enterprise hosting can cost many thousands of rands.

Have you searched for web hosting online yet? At time of writing a Google search revealed 198,000,000 results for “web hosting”.  Of course not all of these pages are different companies offering web hosting services, but that’s a good indication of the amount of options out there.

When choosing a business web hosting service you should consider at least four factors:

1)  Your web hosting service must offer a money back, no questions guarantee.

2) They must commit to an uptime guarantee.  Most hosts can promise to have your website available and accessible for 99.9% of the time.  If your website is not available then you can’t do business from it. You need to choose a webhost provider that is going to offer a great deal of stability.

3) The web hosting provider must perform regular backups and have redundant capacity to deal with technical failures (it is inevitable for computer hardware to fail, a good web host is prepared for this eventuality).

4) The web hosting provider must have good customer support - telephone and email.  They should have a good reputation and have been in business for a while.  They must have terms of use that prohibit people from storing objectionable (pornographic or illegal) material on their websites.

If you choose the right web hosting provider then your website is well on the way to success.  Wobble Internet Productions offers an outstanding internet hosting service - contact us today for more information.