Before explaining the difference between business hosting, and standard shared hosting it is important to consider pricing. Clearly, the more expensive is business hosting. Please don’t fall into the trap of thinking because you have paid ten times the going rate, you will have a managed hosting service that excels above all other companies. In fact a company that has failed to update their packages and pricing in the last five years probably isn’t up to much. There are thankfully, business hosts that are absolutely worth paying that little bit extra for. That is why you might want to considering paying for business website hosting.
Business class hosting is normally used for mission critical environments. Whatever the personal blog owner might claim otherwise, their uptime isn’t of vital importance. I know from running a web hosting company that some people believe that the world is going to melt because their holiday photos are offline at 3am. This kind of person is rather deluded, and miss the price they are paying per month- sometimes as little as a pound! Business class hosting is normally quite a bit more expensive.
The extra cost is certainly worth the enhanced hosting experience. Firstly the server hardware is going to be of a much better grade. This may alarm you, but there are web hosts that use desktops to host their customer’s services. Are you happy with that prospect? I wouldn’t have thought so! A business class host will pay thousands of pounds per server to offer you the very best in terms of reliability and lower the chances of things going wrong. Hard disks in a RAID array create redundancy. For added security, there will be automated incremental backups in place. The servers will be racked in the very best datacentres. The datacentre will employ the latest security to keep your data up and intact.
A business class host will have their eyes on the security of the server. Again, believe it or not, any old Tom, Dick or Harry can rent a dedicated server, install a hosting control panel such as Cpanel, and go away and start selling web hosting to you. They can buy a very nice looking website template and claim to have hundreds of employees. However, when they do get hacked, you’ll find out the hard way. A business class host will keep the server secure and your website online.
You can often find a good level of support from a standard web host. However for a fraction more, you have server techs with excellent skills for peace of mind. If your query is trivial, allow time as it isn’t important. However if you need help at 3am because your website has gone down, your business class web host should already know about it, have emailed you to inform you, and be fixing the issue.
Should you be swayed you might want to give KDA Web Services business website hosting a go. KDA expertise in managed dedicated server host services.
