Choosing UK Web Hosting Is Like Picking A Partner In Love –
Get It Wrong And Your Life Will Be A Living Hell!

Once you have a web site, you then need a high quality UK web hosting service. Finding the right 'home' for your new web site is as important as finding the right designer for it. As in buying property, the key is "Location, location, location!"

If your business is based in the UK, you may feel more at home with web hosting from a UK company although the choice is not quite as good as it ought to be.

And your web site deserves a home that is safe, secure and reliable, not the web site equivalent of a leaky caravan or flapping tent.

Free Web Hosting - You Get What You Pay For

In most cases, free web hosting is worth precisely that - nothing. Your nicely designed web site becomes covered in adverts, and your web site address (URL) is something horribly unprofessional, such as;

www.mywebsite.freewebcompany.co.uk

instead of

www.mywebsite.co.uk

What this says to your web reader (if you get any readers) is "Look at me - my web site is so cheap I won't even spend 50p a day or so to host it!"

Coupled with the fact that many free web-hosting companies go bust, this is not a sensible option for you if you really want a lasting, professional presence on the internet.

More Hosting Than You Need

Some UK web site hosting companies, and those from other countries come to think of it, offer 'unlimited' features, from storage to email capacity. You won't use anything approaching normal limits in a standard business web site anyway, and often these 'unlimited' offers are unsustainable by the hosting companies.

All you need are good features, not unlimited amounts. A good web hosting company will offer:

• Plenty of POP3 emails
  You can set up many email addresses to direct enquiries to the right person in your company, such as jon@, info@, web@, etc



• MySQL databases
  MySQL databases are vital for storing those email addresses you capture online



• AWStats
  AWStats are by far the prettiest and easiest to read web statistics. Helps you know how many visitors come to your site, how long they spend there, which pages are popular, when search engine robots visited, etc



• Fantastico
  This feature makes it simple to add extra features to your new web site such as eCommerce or blogs



• 200Mb or so server storage space
  This is absolutely plenty for a standard web site (For most, it's probably 10 times more than what they will need)



• 5000Mb (5Gb) of monthly bandwidth
  Bandwidth is all about the amount of data coming down from your web site onto a web browser's computer. Each person who browses your web site is, of course, a potential customer, so the more who browse, the better.
  
  The more people who view your site and download information (data), the more of your bandwidth is used up.
So, if your site just offers textual information with a few pictures, the amount of data each web browser downloads is small. Offer video or sound downloads on your web site, and the amount of data each potential customer will use rises.

1Gb should be plenty for a popular web site offering mainly information with small downloads. If you want to have an all-singing, all-dancing video site, contact us and we'll come up with your perfect package.


• cPanel control panel
  The best and easiest web site control panel system. This helps you access all aspects of your web site hosting 24/7

Planet's web hosting service offers all these features, so check it out today.

24/7 Web Hosting Support - Absolutely Vital

One of the major complaints Planet's customers have is about their current UK web hosts.

You know the story. It's 6pm on Friday night, and your web site is not working. Your hosting company's support team have all gone home (or to the pub) and are not available again until Monday morning. If you sell online, this could cost you a fortune.

If you need a 24/7 web site, you need 24 hours, 365 days a year support from technicians based in the data centre where the actual servers are sitting. The data centre should be connected directly to the backbone of the internet with the latest hi-tech fire protection, back-ups, mirrored dart centres, etc.

Needless to say, this level of back-up and support infrastructure is expensive to provide, so many cheap hosting companies simply do not bother.

Planet Web Marketing's web hosting service offers 24/7 support, so contact us for a free consultation to discuss your hosting requirements today.

Control Your Own Web Site

A good web-hosting provider will always give you the full details of your web space; password and username, plus all the technical information you wish. With usernames and passwords, if your web hosting provider does let you down, you can simply move your data somewhere else, whenever you wish.

Never accept a web hosting reseller that will not give you all your user and password details. You'd be amazed at how often these resellers can disappear with all your data and passwords.

Web Hosting The Planet Web Marketing Way

When Planet build web sites, we only use reliable, fast quality hosting with 24/7/365 support.

Your Planet web site includes one year of free hosting with a high quality web host service. The team at Planet has also negotiated a special range of extras from this provider for our customers. Whether you're in the UK or on Mars, this hosting is for you.

If you already have a web site from Planet Web Marketing and you wish to continue to have it hosted safely and securely for another year, click here to visit the web hosting prices page. Choose one of Planet's three excellent value web hosting packages, and relax in the knowledge that your web site is in the very best location, location, location! We'll even help you upload your site if you want us to.

If you ever need to move your site from our hosting service (and we're pretty certain you won't want to once you've experienced a year of hassle-free hosting), we'll help you.


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