There comes a time when you will need to turn to a professional Commercial Web Hosting provider to cater to your growing business.  A provider that you select must have rather than relying on resold services from upstream providers and can also now count ASX50 companies, major Australian Federal Government agencies, and international marketing firms amongst its customers.

Commercial Web Hosting

If you are a Government Department that is expanding and your looking around for a service provider that will cater for your increasing business needs both today and in the future you will need to select carefully. What are you looking for then, what do you want in a hosting provider?  An obvious answer would be excellent customer service, 24/7 support, little to no down time.  There is no one size fits all as each business is unique and looking for something that is a little different. For instance as a Government Department you would rate as a priority security of information and storage of confidential data would be a priority.

Features of a Secure Managed Services:

Canberra and Sydney secure gateways:

- IN-CONFIDENCE

- RESTRICTED

- PROTECTED

• Fully redundant firewall, intrusion preventions, and event correlation services.
• Two layers of email virus, spam and spyware filtering, with email content filtering available.
• High capacity infrastructure with internet services from four separate providers across Canberra and Sydney.
• Highly agile – streamlined and responsive processes with local purchasing authority and contractual sign off.
• FedLink capable.
• Remote access and VPN options supported.
• Diverse ICON connectivity supported.
• 24/7/365 Monitoring and Support.

Any business today would say the internet is where most of their sales come from and what will be the customer’s first impression when they go to your site?  That is why you need commercial web hosting! What will they see when they click on your link?  Perhaps click to nothing the site is down for how long you don’t know so how much has this really cost you, perhaps a lot!

Features of Dedicated Servers:

• High volume websitesLarge complex websites
• Custom built web applications
• Business Dedicated Services
• Dedicated Servers
• Dedicated Addons
• Dedicated Software
• Dedicated Server Management

Dedicated Server, who needs one?

When it comes to sharing bottom of the line is no one really likes to share, least of all share bandwidth and storage space for an online business. All online business owners who constantly find their data sharing host server space with other business may want to consider subscribing to dedicated hosting. This will allow an organisation to have complete control over the server or servers that it leases from the web host.

Servers used in dedicated hosting run on either open source operating systems or commercial operating systems. Cost is the most obvious difference between open source and commercial operating systems. The type of operating system offered on a dedicated server often depends on its availability, price and employee familiarity. The webmaster or the client has complete control over the server he or she leases, including choice of operating system and software and hardware used.

Offered on a dedicated server is a wider range of options to personalise your online presence. And if I haven’t convinced you what a plus it is to have your own server, the hosting provider as the owner of the server, is responsible for maintenance and upkeep of the server that you lease from them.

Leasing a whole server or numerous servers means that there is a higher subscription cost. The price can be ten times that of web hosting provided on a shared server. However, the benefits of dedicated hosting are obvious there is virtually no chance of maxing out your bandwidth. All your data is stored on separate servers, away from data belonging to other people. This serves to reduce the risk of malware, spyware or viruses from spreading and isolates the data from either spammers and hackers. It’s not bulletproof, but a dedicated server provides better data protection.

Typically, a website or a group of sister companies that generate a large, substantial amount of traffic are among those who should consider dedicated hosting. Such a commercial web hosting solution enables the development of a high end or complex business.

Further Web Hosting information:

If you currently own a website that generates revenue, every second that it is down can result in lost revenues. If your cgoes out of business like some smaller cheaper web hosting companies do, this can take your website offline this will lead to the loss of all of the associated files on your website and the expensive web development features that were put into building your website may be lost forever.

Another important tip is if your web hosting provider doesn’t take frequent backups, all of your website information and features may be lost forever. Inadequate or non existent security measures on the behalf of your web hosting service can result in your website being hacked by competitors which would be tragic and will no doubt result in downtime for your business.

Security is a real issue today, and for the webhosting user this could mean the end of their business if inadequate security measures are not in place as this can also decrease customer confidence in regard to conducting online transactions with your company. In a nutshell the instability or poor business practices of a web hosting service has the potential of totally destroying your company’s reputation as an internet business that provides service that exceeds customer expectations and I am sure that by now reading all of this information that you know that it is definitely not the case of cheaper web hosting is not really that cheap in the end at all if none of the precautions above are in place regularly monitored.