Small Business Web Hosting
Today having a website makes as much sense as having a telephone number. Unless you live at the top of a hill and ALL your potential clients live at the bottom then it makes sense for any business to have visibility on the World Wide Web. It's surprising how much time people spend looking at computer screen - and if that is where their attention is then you should be there.
Small Business Web Hosting - reliable and fast
As Merrehill only host a small number of businesses on one server we have had no issues on speed - so your prospects can see your web site and browse it fast - this tends to keep them online longer and gives a better impression - particularly important for Small Business Web Hosting where consumer choices can be greater and it is more important you close every prospect you can.
When we design and host a site we begin with a view to getting the site optimised right at the start. That isn't to say we will do the site optimization for free - it takes a surprising amount of work to get a site onto page one of Google for a start - and continuous work to keep it there. Understandably there is considerable competition to appear on page one for key and relevant search words or phrases. This is because the vast majority of people searching on Google only go as far as the first page to find what they want and more rarely look as far as page 2 or 3.
The art of Small Business Web Hosting is really horribly simple - it's just a matter of being available 24/7. A web site is simply a collection of pages - usually in HTML or Flash format, on a the hard drive of a PC that is permanently connected to the world wide web. These are called servers as they are supplying data to other clients. On your internet connection assuming it is broad-band it is called ADSL - the A stands for 'asynchronous' - which simply means it downloads much faster than it uploads. So your '2Mb' connection may (in your dreams' download at 2Mb but it uploads much slower - in this theoretical example probably around 500K or a quarter of the speed. This fits with the model of an end user who tends to pull data off the web more than send it up. Obviously for a Web Serving PC it needs to be the other way round - another reason why the typical internet connection in a business isn't suitable for hosting. If just five other computers try to access a page off your site at the same time it's going to go pretty slow - so what about a few hundred! Clearly if you are looking for a grown up site capable of handling a volume of traffic you would need to have a proper server set up to handle your Small Business Web Hosting.
There can be other considerations - if you want particular things like Frontpage, MSsql or MySQL & php - we can cater to the requirements of most but just ask what your needs are and we will let you know if we can do it or not.
The costs of your Small Business Web Hosting depend on what you need - we start from �59 per annum. This isn't for a directory hanging off another website - this is for your own www.mybusiness.co.uk site to be hosted in the usual way of any 'proper' site so you don't look like a one man band or cheap start up type business. It is worth checking that your Small Business Web Hosting is up to scratch.
