Is it Time for You to Upgrade Your Website Hosting?
This blog post was updated on 7/19/24 to reflect updated statistics and trends in website hosting.
99% – that sounds like a lot, right? If that’s your remaining cellphone battery life, you’re in good shape! But if your website uptime is 99%, you might need to part ways with your web hosting service. Typically, you want to strive for the “five nines availability,” or 99.999% uptime.
Even an average website uptime of 99.59% would amount to around 35 hours of downtime per year. Any amount of downtime could frustrate your existing customers and disappoint new visitors – no one is going to wait around for a broken website to be back online.
So how do you avoid potentially costly website outages? First, you choose a hosting provider that has a proven record of reliable managed hosting and a team of top-notch developers. Then you give them permission to upgrade your software as needed.
Cost vs. Benefit
Some hosting providers charge less than $10 a month for their services. For that price, you should be able to get some basic backup and malware protection for a simple WordPress site. However, with an entry-level hosting provider, your site might share rack space with other websites, and you might experience a price hike or bandwidth throttling if your site experiences a sudden spike in traffic.
An ongoing managed hosting agreement for a WordPress website of about 20 pages starts at around $40 a month. That cost includes domain management, regular data backup, software patches, plug-in updates, intrusion detection, and 24/7 uptime monitoring.
Businesses that need an enterprise-level site with eCommerce functionality, enhanced security, or multi-site capability should consider the benefits of Sitefinity over WordPress. Sitefinity managed hosting entitles you to 24/7 monitoring, uptime, CPU usage, and memory usage monitoring, virus protection, scheduled backups, and a range of compliance scanning and HIPAA compliance monitoring, and emerging threat detection.
It doesn’t matter how beautifully designed your website is – if it crashes frequently, if it has poor page load speed, or if it’s built with outdated software vulnerable to hacking, you’re not getting the best return on your investment.
Our Indianapolis web design team builds beautiful, functional, engaging websites and keeps them online with our 24/7 monitoring. If your site should ever fail, you can count on us to be working immediately to resolve the problem.
We offer hosting to ensure that the websites we design and develop for our clients stay online without interruption. If you’re in the market for a website redesign or upgrade, know that when you host with BoxCrush, your investment will be online and functioning properly. Ready to learn more? Schedule a meeting or call us at 317-816-9353.