So, you’ve finally gotten your new website through the development phase and you are ready to go “live”- congratulations! Now, you need to ensure that your new website is online for your visitors 24/7/365. A key advantage to a website is that it is essentially a salesperson for your company. Reliable web hosting means that your new salesperson is always in the office helping customers 100% of the time. No breaks, vacations or sick days!

Let’s go thru some basics. When you purchase web hosting, you are renting what is called a server (a high performance computer) inside a data center. The data center provides fail-safe power and cooling, extremely high speed internet access, and physical security to your server.