Website Hosting

If you are in business, or want to promote yourself, you need an online presence. This means that, if you are based in the UK, with UK-based servers, you will have to contemplate web hosting UK.

You need to find the website hosting provider which best meets your own needs.

As with anything else, cost is always going to be an important consideration when selecting a website hosting company. You need to be sure you find the best quality website hosting service for whatever you are able to afford.

You probably know by now that one of the most basic choices is between free web hosting UK or paid for website hosting UK. But, for most people, it’s not really a choice, since free web hosting UK will really only serve for a very basic or small website, or if you are prepared to host advertising.

As the web hosting UK industry has matured, hosting offers have split into a few distinct categories, each with strengths and weaknesses.

Before understanding which web hosting UK provider to go for, you need to understand the distinction between shared, co-located, unmanaged dedicated and managed dedicated website hosting UK. There’s lots of information about these kinds of web hosting UK services online.

The main thing is to do your homework properly, and ask the right questions before deciding which web hosting UK company to go for. Choosing your host is an important decision, which, and, with some providers, one which may be expensive to reverse once it’s made.

Ask whether your potential host’s network has blackholed IPs. Unfortunately, some web hosting UK hosts care little about who is hosting on their networks as long as the clients pay their bills. That means some web hosting UK hosts will allow porn sites, spammers and servers that create security issues on their network.

Ethical issues aside, this has a negative effect on customers in general, such as when a network gets blackholed for spamming. Getting blackholed means that other networks will refuse email originated from blacklisted IPs. Some web hosting UK hosts have a number of entire class C (up to 256 IPs) networks blackholed and redistribute these tainted IPs to new clients. Check with potential web hosting UK companies to see whether their networks are blackholed.

Don’t confuse size with stability. Just because a website hosting UK company is big, that does not necessarily mean it is stable and secure. Ask some key questions, such as how long the web site hosting UK company has been in business. Is current ownership of the web hosting UK provider the same as it’s always been? Are they profitable and is cash flow positive from operation-generated revenue?

Don’t make price your only priority. If you over-prioritise price, you risk getting a web hosting UK company which hooks your site up to the Internet but does little else in terms of support (and even that online connection may not be running at maximum capacity or have uptime issues if you pick a website hosting UK company badly).

Ensure your web hosting UK company has fully independent data centres. When dealing with smaller web hosting UK providers, ensure they have their own data centres and that those centres are fully independent in terms of power and connectivity.

Find out whether your website hosting UK company employs experienced systems administrators on their support staff. When you call your web hosting UK organisation for technical support, it can be frustrating to talk to a non-technical “customer service” representative when you really need to talk to a systems administrator.

Find out the structure of the support department of your web hosting UK provider, how quickly you can reach a systems administrator at your website hosting UK company when you need to, and which systems administrators at your website hosting UK provider can help

Ensure the host is flexible. It is important that the website hosting UK provider understands how important quality servers are to its clients’ businesses. Even most web hosting UK managed dedicated hosts will not go near supporting applications which are not part of the initial server setup. Find a web hosting UK company with vast experience to support a variety of applications.

Find out what former/current clients say about the web site hosting UK provider. Can your prospective web hosting UK company give you success stories for clients with similar configurations to yours? Can the web hosting UK organisation provide references from clients who can tell you about their experience using that web hosting UK company?

Ensure the web hosting UK provider’s support doesn’t include extra charges. Ensure that any web hosting UK organisation you consider provides you with a comprehensive list outlining the support it offers so you understand what is supported for free, what is supported at a fee and what is not supported at all. Many web hosting UK providers try to hide a substandard level of free support behind non-specific statements of high-quality support, so make your website hosting UK company realise it needs to be specific to win your business.

At EUKhost, we are a leading web hosting UK company. We specialise in providing a website hosting UK service which is affordable yet doesn’t skimp on standards. We’ve grown incredibly over the last eight years, and now provide website hosting UK services to more than 100,000 websites, from small personal ones to those of large businesses.

Our web hosting UK packages start from just under £30 a month. We may be affordable, but we provide all the features you’d expect from a top web hosting UK provider. Our standard web site hosting UK plans come with unlimited email accounts, and unlimited domain hosting, among other benefits.

Combine that with a high standard of round-the-clock technical support and a 99.95% uptime guarantee, and you can see why EUKhost deserves its reputation as a top web hosting UK provider.

Our web hosting UK services range from high end to low end solutions, and just about everything in between! And we specialise in script hosting. But with our determination to provide value for money for all our web hosting UK services, we offer the same sky-high standards of service, and the same benefits as standard, on all our web hosting UK packages.

If you use the above list as a checklist for choosing a website hosting UK provider, EUKhost ticks all the boxes, giving you everything you should look for in a website hosting UK company.

So if you are looking for website hosting UK, log on today to find out more about how we can host your web site.