Blink and close your eyes for more than a few seconds and you’ll notice a new trend or term has materialized itself from thin air. There’s new products, systems and services being created in our specialized fields on the daily. It can take us ages to even find out they exist!
That’s why I’m the first to promote and educate when I find anything of interest that I think is beneficial for my clients and audience to use. The sooner we can all tap into the potential of something, the better. We’re going to talk about “managed hosting” today, the differences between it and shared hosting, and why this should be the way moving forward for you.
let’s talk about it!
With our fresh-off-the-presses website now live, I can talk a little bit more about some of the upgrades we have made across the board. Long gone are the days of relying on services like GoDaddy or HostGator, where your website can crash in the middle of the day and support takes hours to answer your ticket hoping to get it live right before a big announcement or unveiling. Hosting isn’t cheap – it’s time our websites get their money’s worth.
For what feels like ages, I have been recommending and promoting the benefits of managed hosting to clients and friends. Perhaps confusingly, I never committed to it myself until the start of the year. I came up with what feels like a dozen excuses. I didn’t want to deal with the headache of moving our own site. I was afraid of change just like everyone else. I was unsure of how I wanted to keep my brand moving forward.
Finally, we pulled the trigger and moved our 2.0 website to a new managed hosting platform. The changes were noticed almost immediately! Our website performance improved tenfold, loading faster and more efficiently than ever before. We knew within days that this new kind of hosting trumped the generic “shared hosting” we see most companies label and sell.
What was most important was how much we knew we wanted to share the love with our clients. Moving to this platform now allows us to extend the same benefits we experienced with our site to past, present and future clientele. After all, our award winning websites deserve to have the same quality in their managed hosting as the effort put into their branding and site.
but what is managed hosting for real, though?
I had to build up to it, okay! Managed hosting is more than a place to park your website. Your hosting matters! Through electing for such a service, your domain is given its own space completely apart from any other domain that might be located on the same server. On top of that is an entire suite of services tailored around performance, security and optimization.
A common analogy I use when I explain hosting to clients is pretty simple!
Your website is the place you live, your hosting is the street you live on. When it comes to shared hosting, other websites are sharing the street. It’s more like an apartment complex, and you may have a lot of people going in and out. This can make your website host quite bogged down.
With managed hosting, it’s like owning your own house, on your own dead-end street! Your site is secure and doesn’t have to deal with shared resources.
We love managed hosting because you’re not meeting just mandatory requirements to keep your website running.
So you’re probably asking why and how I’ve been sold on the performance of our new hosting so quickly. What’s most important for a lot of readers is the fact that we now experience lightning-fast website speeds. Our managed hosting service uses an infrastructure that is tuned specifically around WordPress websites. That kind of scalability enforces traffic that ranges from single individuals to hundreds and thousands.
We pride ourselves on providing user-friendly and SEO-ready WordPress websites, so of course we would need to have a hosting service that reflected that!
What makes this managed hosting special is that my or your website doesn’t share anything with other sites on the same server you’re paying for, every resource is used to keep your domain holding strong!
No crashes to worry about with a managed hosting platform, either. In the rare event there is a failure on the back-end, the hosting software works on repairing everything for you behind the scenes. It also backs up your website on a separate server every night automatically. There’s a great chance you wouldn’t even have to bother contacting your Webmaster to troubleshoot the issue! We all love a service that can manage itself.
Get it? Manage itself, “managed hosting”? Okay, I’ll see myself out. Tip your blogger for better jokes!
do i have your interest yet?
There’s a ton of other little benefits in this service that I could sell you on, but I think you get the jist of it by now. The biggest and best thing to know is this – all Decelle Branding clients will enjoy their own managed hosting for any websites we develop and build for you. We fully and thoroughly believe you’ll see immediate results if you have ever had hosting elsewhere in the past.
For a limited time only, we are also promoting our Lemon Roots Brand Boost package! If your business is looking for a new website and logo, you can capitalize on savings by receiving 6 months of free managed hosting. If this sounds up your alley, be sure to schedule an appointment today. We’d love to answer any questions you might have about any step in the process!
