Choosing the Right Hosting for Your Website

Your website needs to live somewhere. That's hosting. Here's how to pick wisely.

What affects performance

Server quality matters. Cheap servers are slow, get overcrowded, go down more often. Your site loads slowly or becomes unreachable at the worst times.

Location matters too. If your customers are in the UK, hosting in the UK or Europe is faster than hosting in the US.

The cheap option

You can get hosting for a few pounds a month. It works fine for simple sites with low traffic. If you're just starting out, it's okay.

The downsides - slower, less reliable, fewer features, terrible support when things go wrong.

What decent hosting includes

Uptime guarantee (99.9% or better) Fast loading times Good support Backups Security features Room to grow

When to spend more

If your site is important to your business, don't cheap out. A few extra pounds a month for reliable hosting is nothing compared to lost leads when your site goes down.

If you have an ecommerce site or expect significant traffic, you need proper hosting. Not shared hosting that's crowded with hundreds of other sites.

The warning signs

"Your site might be suspended for high resource usage" "Support responses in 48-72 hours" No backups included

Those are signs of cheap hosting that's going to cause problems.

What we use

We host on modern, fast infrastructure with excellent uptime. It's not the cheapest but it works. Your website deserves to work reliably too.

Bottom line

Don't obsess over hosting but don't neglect it either. Get something decent from a reputable provider. It's a false economy to go with the absolute cheapest option.