You deserve better web hosting
I’ve seen it over and over. My clients who use a massive public hosting company like GoDaddy or NetworkSolutions often end up frustrated with unexplainable issues and unhelpful tech support.
Tied to notching in their next best earnings report each quarter, most public hosting providers are simply geared to focus on quantity over quality.
Airtight offers its clients private web hosting that we control, configure and manage. This allows us to work better together and encourages the stability and flexibility that we all want out of our sites.
There are a few things that need to be said for big-business hosting.
Large public web hosting companies are bad for your business
GoDaddy for example is a publicly traded company. They have a duty to their shareholders to drive profits every quarter. That means they do better when they charge customers more while spending less on staff, amenities and resources.
Most commonly, customers buy shared hosting which is like apartment living for websites. Each site gets an apartment in the same building and all tenants use the same elevators, utilities and trash disposal areas.
Basically you can’t choose who you live amongst on public shared hosting. Following on with the analogy if you will- some neighbors can be messy and irresponsible, some mine cryptocurrency and cause power surges. Some tenants don’t empty the lint trap and cause a structure fire.
Furthermore your web hosting company has acquired many other properties from smaller companies over the years. None of them are quite the same. Some are old and antiquated. When you sign up they toss you into whichever building has free space.
Wouldn’t it make sense to instead choose a private and secure place to run your business online?
Charging for https:// ✅ is a crime
(a crime, figuratively speaking).
I’ve seen some clients unwittingly paying their web hosts hundreds per year for a simple single-website SSL certificate. Charging customers for basic SSL is heinous!
Serving your site on https is the default these days. It doesn’t cost a thing, and there are great open source tools like Let’s Encrypt with auto-renew that you can install for free if you manage your own server.
What hosting services do I recommend?
The best balance of price and quality that I’ve been able to find on the web is A2hosting. They are an independent US based webhost with a great reputation and always free SSL.
It can be a little difficult to figure out what kind of plan you actually need for your site, so feel free to drop me a message and I’ll help you decide.
If you’re specifically working with WordPress and want a push-button solution with great security and customer support, you can’t go wrong with WPEngine.
