What to Look for in a Website Hosting Service Provider

As a small business owner, you need to know that your website will be running around the clock to get all the customers you can. One website crash or error message and your customers or prospects may just move onto the competition. 

This is when you need a trusted website hosting service that will do the heavy lifting for you and you can focus on your business without worrying that your website is not doing what it is supposed to.

Question is, how do you know which website hosting service provider does what it will say? Here are some tips on what to look for in a website hosting service provider:

• What kind of technical support do you get? You need a website host that offers 24/7 support.
• Do they supply you with adequate backup in terms of disaster recovery? Make sure they are backing up their backups!
• What is their uptime guarantee? You want to select a website hosting service that offers uptime of at least 99 percent or higher.
• Do they have multiple backup locations? If one location goes down, then there is another that comes online immediately.
• Is site accessibility easy enough to do? You want to make sure you can make changes to your website, such as creating new email accounts or changing server settings.
• Does the website host meet the minimum requirements for blogging software like Wordpress? You want to be able to blog so make sure this is possible.
  
• Do they offer shared hosting? This can save you money but it may not be something you need or want. If the option is there, this is important to some businesses.
• Is there a clear picture of what you are paying for? You want to make sure you are not getting some sort of deal on a start-up rate only to be hit later with add-on costs that actually have you spending more on your website hosting plan than you should.
• Will the website host be able to scale as you grow? It is important to know that they can accommodate additional bandwidth as you expand your business and website traffic picks up.
• Does the company offer different plans to accommodate different types of businesses and budgets? There can’t be a one-size-fits-all website hosting service so make sure you find one that provides some options

Flyline Search Marketing has multiple website hosting plans that provide you with all these options and more. Contact us today to learn more!

Website Hosting Solutions

To ensure your website is always on and available to your target audience, you want to make sure that you have a web hosting solution that works around the clock and scales with you as you grow and need it to maintain its high-level performance.

However, there are no one-size fits all solutions for website hosting because one small business may not need a lot of bells and whistles for its simple website while another may have a complex website that requires a lot more. That’s why we offer a range of website hosting services to fit your need and, more importantly, your budget.

Here is a brief rundown on each of our website hosting service packages. Each website hosting package comes with excellent technical support and promises 99.9% up-time.

Premium Website Hosting

The premium hosting solution is designed for companies that need a robust Linux server based, PHP/mySQL website hosting solution. The premium hosting package includes full cpanel access with website file back-up capability.

Clients may establish up to 20 webmail accounts, 6 FTP accounts, and 3 mySQL databases with this website hosting package.

Standard Website Hosting

The standard website hosting package is designed for small businesses that need a Linux server based, PHP/mySQL website hosting solution. Standard hosting includes full cpanel access with website file back-up capability.

Clients may establish up to 10 webmail accounts, 3 FTP accounts, and 1 mySQL database with this website hosting package.

Basic Website Hosting

The basic hosting package is designed for individuals or small business owners that have one URL they need to host. Basic hosting delivers a solid Linux server based, PHP/mySQL hosting solution and includes cpanel access, up to 5 webmail accounts, 2 FTP accounts and 1 mySQL database.

Convenient Payment Options for Our Website Hosting Solutions

If you are ready to set up your website hosting plan, you can simply go onto our website and select the plan that best fits your needs by clicking the drop down arrow on the payment portal listed as a tab on our website hosting solution page.

Once you have selected your plan, click the “Subscribe” button. That will take you to PayPal where you can complete your purchase. We use PayPal because it is a trusted online payment system that offers an extremely reliable, effective, and secure payment portal. Payment options include paying from your own PayPal account or you can use this payment portal to set up recurring payments via your credit card.

After that, we can get your website hosting solution underway, and you can focus on running your business knowing that we have your website up and running. 

Case Study on Website Development Capabilities: Jay McDonald

Your website is now often the first things prospective clients may see about your business. If that is how they are judging whether they want to do business with you, then you will want to ensure that your website looks incredible and transmits the messages you are seeking to communicate to your target audience.

At Flyline Search Marketing, we’ve been busy putting our website design and website development expertise to work for a wide range of clients. One of our recent success stories is our case study for this blog post, Jay McDonald. Read his story below.

Jay McDonald

Jay McDonald wears many hats. He is a CEO and Business Owner in the Atlanta area as well as Coach, Mentor, Board Member, Strategist, and Confidant and Chair for Vistage International.

He is a successful entrepreneur who provides business consulting, coaching, and mentoring services for some of Atlanta's premier business owners. 

This includes people like Charles Carithers, owner of Carithers Flowers, who happens to be one of Flyline’s longest clients. Other clients of Jay McDonald include the owner of Chateau Elan.

A High-Tech, Responsive, and Scalable Website

When Jay came to us, he was looking for a sophisticated web site that could scale up with his business. Not only is his new website easy to navigate and uses colors and a design that enhances readability, but it was also built on a Wordpress platform that incorporates a high-tech, responsive site design.

The responsive design allows the website to literally morph into a full mobile website when accessed via a smartphone or IOS device, such as an iPhone or Android. The site also integrates when a user is accessing it via a desktop, laptop, or tablet device.  

Optimized and Updatable Websites

Additionally, Jay is able to enjoy a website that comes with a Customer Management System (CMS) tool that allows for easy updates so he can regularly update his content for a more dynamic website. 

The cost-effective design can deliver traffic and convert it to sales as soon as it arrives.

Further value comes from the fact that the team at Flyline optimizes (i.e., uses search engine optimization strategies) the web site to maximize the chances of getting free organic traffic from search engines, including Google, Yahoo/Bing, Ask, Dogpile, Anywho and others.

A Comprehensive Internet Marketing Strategy

Along with a comprehensive Internet Marketing program, an optimized website can help quickly direct traffic to a website. 

For instance, Jay’s website has easy buttons that integrate his social media efforts, including a button for Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter and RSS Feed to encourage his clients and prospects to reach out to him beyond just his website.

Ready to roll out a website that shows you are the go-to business for your niche area? 

Contact us today to get started on designing or re-designing your website as well as integrating a comprehensive Internet Marketing program that builds further access to more opportunities and revenue! 

How to Know if Your Website is Functioning at its Optimum Potential

Count yourself lucky if your business has continued throughout the recent tough economic environment. But, you can count yourself smart if you have focused on an Internet Strategy that has included everything from a credible webhosting service to online advertising analytics like Google AdWords to search engine optimized content and social media.

You have probably taken the time to experiment with different methods for luring customers in, including a Facebook fan page, a Twitter account, a blog, and even press releases to reach out to the media and get your audience’s attention.
Web and Phone Analytics

When you start a business website, you cannot assume it will simply show up on the first or even second or third page of a search on Google. It’s there somewhere but it is not anywhere close to the limited search that your customers and potential customers will undertake.
There are ways to get attention from Google and move up the search engine listing. You can opt for pay-per-click advertising, which is a system that essentially takes a specific budget that you set and then pay out to get you in front of your target audience by posting ads in the search engine and on sites that they may be browsing.

The intent is to get you noted and increase the flow of traffic to your website, which will most likely increase your website orders and in-store traffic.

Analytics become a very important component of today’s Internet Marketing campaigns to see what is working and what isn’t quite attracting the attention you are seeking. This allows a company to know where and how certain changes in these campaigns or tactics will make a significant difference.

Why We’re the Best at Website Traffic
At Flyline Search Marketing, we have an experienced team of Web Market Strategists and are even Google Ad-Words certified. We also have expertise across all Internet Marketing tactics as well as offer technical assistance, including web hosting and graphic design.

The team also consists of professional content writers with years of experience in marketing, advertising, public relations, SEO-driven content and social media content.
Our Internet Marketing campaigns have been implemented across numerous industries, including auto dealers, florists, fitness clubs, insurance and HR firms, mortgage bankers, plumbers, legal firms, locksmiths, mailing services and property management specialists just to name a few.

This has helped us to expand our SEO knowledge in terms of developing lists and strategies for keywords that are then utilized across all tactics, including blogs, press releases, articles, website content, social media content and Google AdWords.

Ready to get started? Let’s work together on a comprehensive, results-driven Internet Marketing program that starts paying you immediate returns!