How to Choose a Web Hosting Provider for Your Business

Choosing a managed web hosting provider? We’re here to help! Here are some things you should check before making a final decision about your new web hosting service.

Storage capacity is something you should never save money on – especially if your website has many pictures, videos, and animated elements on it. All of that media has to be stored somewhere. So before opting for any hosting plan, check its storage capacity.

💡Always plan for the future growth of your website and go for options that offer a little bit more than you currently need. On the other hand, don’t overdo it – there’s no need to pay for hundreds of extra gigabytes just in case.

At Scalesta, we offer different plans for businesses of different sizes. But any plan is easily customizable so that you can adjust it to your needs.

Make sure that you can easily change your hosting package – not only upgrade it but also downgrade it. This will make it possible for you to optimize your business spending no matter the circumstances. For instance, you might need an upgrade for the sales season or during a new product launch. On the other hand, after exiting a certain market, you might want to downgrade so that you won’t overpay for unnecessary capacity.

💡Scalesta clients can adjust their hosting plan at any time. Moreover, we can add some extra disk space to your plan without a full upgrade if you keep getting notifications that you don’t have enough storage.

Uptime is the amount of time your website is up and working, ready to process your customers’ requests. Ideally, an online shop should never go offline, but no one is ever fully protected from cyberattacks and random breakdowns. That’s why in addition to the uptime guarantee you should also always check the reaction time of your provider.

💡Make sure your web hosting provider guarantees and bears full responsibility for consistent work of your website without interruptions and downtime and reacts fast to any arising issues.

Scalesta guarantees 99% uptime and 15-minute response time by SLA. This means that at any time, your website will be ready to show your products to customers and buyers can make a purchase 24/7. And if there’s any issue at all, it will be fixed shortly.

There are few things in this world that are as annoying as slow websites. When it comes to online stores and other eCommerce projects, users expect them to work much faster than they usually do.

According to Google research, 54% of online shoppers get frustrated as the loading time of a web store increases. So make sure you don’t own one of those! Check if your hosting plan is able to provide good enough speed for your projects.

Bandwidth is the amount of data that could be transmitted in a given amount of time. Depending on this feature, your website runs faster or slower. And the speed of the website is critical when it comes to eCommerce projects: from slow online shops, customers buy significantly less. According to Google research, 53% of users leave a website if it takes more than three seconds to load. So make sure to check the bandwidth allowance with your hosting provider as it will affect your website’s loading speed.

💡The bandwidth depends on your server and on how many other companies you share it with. If you want a higher bandwidth, you need to share your server with fewer websites. Instead of shared server options, opt for VPS or dedicated servers.

At Scalesta, we don’t offer shared servers at all, because they never meet our quality requirements. We provide our clients only with the best options for eCommerce – VPS and dedicated hosting.

Source: Google Research

Source: Unbounce

Source: Google/Civic Science 2018, Nov. 2018.