How The Web Hosting Industry WILL Affect Your Business.

How The Web Hosting Industry WILL Affect Your Business.

By Jim Daniels.

Locating the proper web hosting company for your business is
NOT a chore to be taken lightly...

As I've built my financial independence online over the past
few years, I've had the opportunity to sample a number of
web hosting companies. I'd like to invite you to take a
moment and learn from my experience in this area.

The following information contains everything I wish I had
known before I made the critical decision of where to host
my web site.

While surving my own hosting ordeals, I learned the
following about the web hosting industry....

Basically, web hosting services fall into one of three
categories:

1) Free.

In a nutshell, free sites mean no frills, someone else's
domain, a few meg of storage and no tech support.

2) Budget.

Budget hosting is usually under $30/mo and can look very
attractive. This is the option I myself chose more than
once, until my nightmarish experience wised me up.
(Read on!)

3) Full service.

Usually $30+/month with 24 hour, seven day live response
support. Something serious cyber-business owners should
demand.

Now at first glance, from the list above there is no simple
choice, especially for the "new to the web". Like me, you
may be tempted to save a few bucks when signing up with a
web host provider.

But let me explain why this decision deserves careful
consideration...

Choice one above, the free hosting is excellent for
personal, family, hobby or club, and "for fun" webmastering
- NOT for business. In order to operate a profitable
business online, you will require much more file storage
space and ownership of your own domain name.

Without a professional appearance, a business loses
credibility instantly and has a strike against it before it
even starts.

Choice two above, the budget hosting, is a popular choice
among many small business owners. But there is a danger
lurking in many of these budget hosts. I learned this
first-hand.

Here's the problem in a nutshell... While most of the
low-cost web hosting companies "promise" free tech support,
the fact is, they simply cannot deliver on their promise.
Their low rates and constant customer turnover simply do not
allow most of these companies to deliver on this promise of
"support".

What you are left with is a level of support and assistance
far below what most small businesses require to prosper
online. One such popular low-cost host left my entire site
dead for over a week while I scrambled frantically to save
my business. Heck, I couldn't even reach anyone or get them
to return my plea for help. When the dust settled, they had
lost the backups of my entire site and I was left to fend
for myself.

The simple fact is, web hosting companies of this budget
category usually end up costing you more money in downtime
and time-consuming non-support than you could ever save with
their low rates.

Which finally brings us to choice three - Professional, high
quality web hosting. Yes, you'll pay a little more for this
option, but the fact is, you get what you pay for. If you
are serious about your business and more importantly, your
time, consider using professional level hosting.

A professional level hosting company will be ready to help
you any hour of the day, any day of the week. And since your
website is the lifeblood of your online presence, this is a
service you simply cannot do without.

Now that you have the facts, I invite you to join our
growing mass of "web wise" customers at Virtualis.

Virtualis is where I host my own site. Why? Simple...

I get features like web based site management - instead of
just FTP, multiple T3 lines to load my pages quickly, and
most importantly, 24 hour "Live tech support". It's no
wonder Virtualis is earned the reputation as the support
leader in an overcrowded industry.

Simply put, Virtualis offers the best web hosting on the
internet. I wouldn't trust my own website with any other
host - and neither should you.

Best regards, Jim Daniels
Click here to go to the Virtualis web site

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