Simple web hosting budget items for web prepresence

The primary purpose of an online presence, for your business, is to benefit the marketing and aid the show casing of your business' products and services over the internet to prospective clients. Web hosting is the means to achieve web presence. This article aims to introduce you to web hosting so that you can budget for it.

Budget for a website and domain name. Do you need a website?

In order to have an internet presence you need a website. A website needs a house in which to live. This house is called web hosting or just hosting. We all know that a house must have an address so that people can find your home. The address of your website is called a domain name. Usually a domain name is worth ZAR100 per annum.

Top technology aids efficiency

In the same way as a well equipped laboratory is more expensive than an ill equipped laboratory – web hosting products also differ. The security and efficiency of the technology inside your hosting package will influence how much your are paying. However open-source software such as Linux has allowed for low cost relatively secure and efficient web hosting. A typical web hosting package is around ZAR100 per month for shared hosting.

Does your budget allow for shared hosting or dedicated hosting?

Shared hosting is when your website ans emails are hosted with many other websites on the same computer called a web server. Typically shared hosting is sufficiently secure, however dedicated hosting is believed to be more secure and faster since your website is the only one that is hosted on a web server. Expect to pay around ZAR600 per month for dedicated web hosting.

Budget for security – it is important

It is recommended that you look into having a security layer such as SSL over your email access point and general website. Usually you have to buy the email security layer separately at around ZAR600 per annum. Another good item to have in your hosting package is unlimited emails and huge bandwidth.

Bells and whistles

Now that you have web hosting and a domain name – it is time to discus the content and aesthetics of your website. The production of the content of your website is usually your responsibility. We will discus the content and aesthetics of your website in another blog article. See you soon.

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