There are a lot of hosting companies. Too many, in my opinion. Competition has decreased prices - which is great - but the industry has also been overrun with cheap, fly by night companies whose reliability and customer service leaves something to be desired.
The company that hosts your site will either help or hurt your business, depending on the reliability with which they deliver your content to visitors. So before you choose a host, there are some important questions you should ask.
We are seeing a growing number of people who don’t have control of their own website. What I mean is that there are a lot of companies who have paid good money to have a website developed, and now they’re paying $50 a month or more to have it hosted and updated. The only problem is, it’s not being updated, or the hosting is unreliable, or they can’t get answers when they have a server crash or email problems.
In this article, I’m going to discuss this problem a little bit, and show you how to avoid it.
Good news - you don’t have to be in the dark about who’s visiting, where they’re coming from, and what they’re doing on your site.
A number of free analytics services can be used as an incredible resource for webmasters and companies to gather detailed site usage info - in particular, detailed reporting on what search terms are getting users through to your site, and what search engines they’re using.
These days, your domain name is a very important part of your business’ brand. Years ago, they used to be very expensive. Now, you can get registrations for just a few dollars a year, so anyone can have their own domain.
