Why you should host with WebDynamic™
More and more in current times, a company’s website is their face to the world, more important than even their premises, which are often never seen by clients. A company’s website is one of the ways potential (and current) clients get a perception of a company and thus having a great website is important in this respect . But what kind of perception is there of a website that is not responding? Or even just a slow website? I ask these questions because self- hosting is not a highly reliable, highly available solution. Why do the majority of companies use state of the art data centers to locate their servers? The answer is uptime, reliability, and redundancy. For example, does your site have:
- Redundant links to Telstra, Optus, and AAPT backbones, with a Gigabit link to your server?
- Redundant supply of two city power grids?
- Redundant backup power generators which are tested and serviced regularly?
- Armed Security Guards at the door with an "airlock" system, and camera surveillance?
- 24x7 network monitoring by experienced technical staff?
- Raised floor with under floor cooling?
- Temperature controlled environment?
- Multi zone fire detection system, and a fire suppression gas system?
If you are a serious business, you simply don't self-host, and you make sure you have a business class hosting service in a state of the art data center, which is what WebDynamic™ provide.
There are more reasons why you should host your website with WebDynamic™, especially if it has been built by WebDynamic™.
- The websites we build are made using technologies which we use every day, which have specific server requirements that our server has been configured to meet. Specific software has been compiled and configured with specific versions of components so that they all work together smoothly. The deployment of the website to our server is a simple process, because we know that everything is set up and ready to go.
- The technologies we use are industry standard and very common and portable, and it is entirely possible to run the website on another server. However, there would simply be more time and effort involved in ensuring the server it does run on has everything required to run the website smoothly, which would involve a cost that could be much greater than a year of hosting.
- WebDynamic™ also provide a number of services associated with the hosting of a website which we may not be able to provide if it is hosted elsewhere. These include a monthly statistics report automatically emailed to you , uptime monitoring, our daily security audits, and looking after the site and server to ensure that everything is up to date.
- Support - if a website is hosted elsewhere, we will not be able to provide support for it . You may have noticed that we don't actually charge "hosting fees" as such - we charge a monthly services fee which includes hosting, support, and some of the services mentioned above. The support which you get covers all technical issues which may come up with the website, including help with using the content management system for updating your website content, adding and removing pages, putting up new products, altering contact forms, or anything on that side of things. We like to look after our customers and make them feel confident that we're here to help . However, if we don't host a site then we don't have control over it, and therefore can't help our clients with it.