Pricing and Suggest Hosting Options
The truth is that each business might have specific needs for their hosting – Like being a busy website and needing a VPS etc. So, if you have any doubts but want the best advice for your business you are welcome to go to the contact page and send me a detailed list of your needs and I will suggest the best hosting option for you that way.
Generally speaking, most small businesses will be just fine on any of the standard shared hosting options I will suggest here below this section.
If you have been reading my posts and my pages, you will see that I feel very passionate about the quality of the hosting provider. In fact more like militant. Bad hosting will affect your entire business forever.
Choose your hosting correctly the first time and then get on with marketing without worrying if your hosting is just crappy or not.
My Recommended Hosting Options
Local South African Hosting.
Details to follow
BONUSES
As soon as you use my affiliate links here to get your hosting it makes you eligible for a range of bonus products.
Option One – A free WordPress Website Build.
I will install the WordPress theme for you and set up the basic pages. This will be the premium theme Divi from Elegant themes. You need to know this and agree to me using that theme. I will supply you with a link to go and see what it is about if you choose this option.
This will be blank pages for the following pages
Home – Contact us – about us – shop – gallery – services
Then I will complete the following pages for you
Copyright – Terms and conditions – Disclaimer – Privacy Policy.
With all this, you will get about 30 training videos on how you can work on your new website without me. These videos cover every aspect of what you need to know.
Option Two – Bonus courses
I will offer you up to 10 courses that I have on things like social media marketing and more – that are designed to help you with your marketing in the future.
I will send you a link, once you have set up the hosting (using my affiliate links from above these sections)
Details to follow
International Hosting.
Details to follow
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I choose the cheapest option?
I often get contacted by new clients of mine who are about to choose their hosting and their first question is often aimed at saving money.
I always tell them the truth.
Firstly most people pick up on what they are being offered on the sales page and then tell me things like “I don’t need so many emails” or “I don’t need many websites, just the one”, and while those observations are true – the reality comes down to the following points.
Almost all the cheapest options when you get hosting have severe restrictions that they are not going to point out as headlines on the sales page.
The biggest problem is going to be very limited bandwidth. It works like this – if you have a website that has no visitors, you will be just fine with the cheapest option. If your website starts to get busy it will not be long before your visitors are cut off and you get the “You need to upgrade” email.
I look at it like this…
The cheapest option is hardly less in price to the next one by the price of the cheapest take-out burger, and this is your business – right? So, if you are going to be too cheap to get average hosting why bother? I say this while trying to soften that point but it is real. We will put in a few tanks of fuel into our cars a month and then try to skimp on the very service that allows our businesses to be showcased online.
To be honest, I suggest the middle packages for start-ups all the time, but you will more than likely need an even bigger package sooner or later IF you are doing your marketing properly and you are getting thousands of visitors to your website every month.
Do I need to choose a hosting company inside the country that I live in?
A lot of people seem to think that they have to seek out a hosting company that has their servers in a nearby city.
This is the internet age people :), it takes a millisecond for that distance over continents to be covered. Your website, the number of people on the same servers etc are all much bigger factors that affect your hosting. In fact, some of the fastest hosting servers are on the other side of the world.
BUT!!!!! There are other factors that might get you to choose a local hosting company over an international one.
Your monthly fees will remain constant, IE if you are in South Africa you get to pay in Rands and not Dollars. If this country (SA) does a wobbly politically, you might end up paying double the fees you started with if the exchange rates tumble in the wrong direction.
And your service departments are on the same timeline as you. It is nice to not worry that you are getting helped by the 3 am shift guy when you have a problem.
Finally, sometimes a local hosting company understands local issue and conditions better and makes allowances for that in their packages.
Lastly – THIS IS HUGE – Please watch out for the biggest local hosting companies – especially here in South Africa – They have some really big problems and do not seem to care much. This is definitely why I started this blog – to help you avoid the bad ones. I had to go to blood pressure medication a few years ago, and I am not sure if it was because of this issue or the level of stupidity on social media that caused it.
Choose one of the bad ones and you might need a doctors referral note from me LOL.
How do you choose the best hosting company?
I love this question as it is by far the most important thing you ever need to ask in connection with your hosting.
Customer service
People think that the customer service is one of the most important things – but in truth, it is very far from that. Yes, bad service is really irritating and could be a very good reason for changing hosting companies, but most hosting companies have very similar service systems. I.E. call centres with staff that know how to do individual things but are really just entry-level staff.
If you go to social media and ask for help with this question 50% of those who answer you will recommend a bad hosting company because they think they are getting great service. Sad – isn’t it? they know no better.
All the bonuses and the extras (including the basics here)
Yeah! It is nice to get offered a ton of things that you think you need but do not really need. In my opinion, the extras that count are things like…
a free SSL certificate.
Great security systems.
Regular backups that are automatically done for you.
CPanel
Month to month contract
The BIGGEST factor?
With shared hosting, you must be made aware that you are SHARING servers with others, and that can drastically affect your websites loading speed. Some of the biggest, most referred hosting companies are loading their servers with so many clients that their loading speeds are atrocious.
I judge my recommended hosting companies by this main issue first and foremost. You are going to need to have your website loading fast all the time, but you are only going to contact the service department 2 times a year if things go badly.
Just a quick note here – Sometimes you get fast and slow servers within the same hosting company – I offer a free speed test for your hosting so that you can see if they have you on an overloaded server or not. Ask me how.
Why should I trust you?
Bloody hell! I love that question.
You see, you should not just trust me before you have looked at how I operate, what I worry about and how I judge who to use or not.
Why should you be wary of me? Well, there is a chance that I will be earning a commission from the referral. BUT (I love this BUT LOL) I can earn a commission from the crappy hosting companies too.
Also a huge part of why I do this blog, these referrals etc is because I am an OLD South African.
What?
Truth is, I am so sick and tired of people referring bad stuff, bad products and us all accepting mediocre service that I am a little militant about helping people get the right stuff.
Watch any of my videos and you will see what I mean.