The vast majority of small businesses today have a website. For ecommerce businesses, this is a priority, not only in designing and launching the site but also in providing the best online shopping experience for their customers.
Even for retail and professional types of businesses, having a website that is informative, relevant and interesting to the customer base is critical. It is also essential to ensure these types of sites offer a top user experience.
Some of the factors that need to be considered, including basic layout and design, the use of multimedia applications on the site as well as seamless navigation and pages that load instantly. While these are all factors of the website design itself, they are also a factor of the web hosting server option selected.
Shared Hosting
Most small businesses will use a web hosting server option known as shared hosting. This allows multiple websites to share the server, including all server resources. As everything is shared, there are limitations on any changes in the system or administration level attributes that can be made by the business.
Additionally, with shared server programs, the volume of traffic to all the other sites on the server will impact the end-user experience for your customers. If one or several sites on the server are utilizing large amounts of bandwidth and CPU, all other sites will be slower.
VPS Hosting
A better option for a web hosting server package that is ideal for a small business is a VPS hosting plan. VPS or virtual private server gives the small business control over the administrative functions of their own virtual server.
Additionally, resources are allocated specifically to the plan without any sharing or slowdowns with traffic to other websites on the server. This ensures consistent, reliable and very fast end-user experience configured to the specific needs of your business website.