Moose Jaw and Moosomin are prairie towns too, but if you want to hang around gas stations, libraries, hospitals, and grain elevators then you’d best be running back to Saskatoon. Even if you’re not familiar with the song you probably do know that Saskatchewan has a lot going for it. Business owners in the Province’s biggest city will tell you that lower commercial lease rates and residents who have more disposable income because of lower cost of living is a good mix. They’ll all have websites to be promoting themselves, and local web hosting in Saskatoon is a better choice for them.
One of the aspects of our service that has made 4GoodHosting one of the biggest hosting providers in Canada is that we are set up to offer optimized local web hosting for any city in Canada, and among the reasons for that are having 2 large data centers far from each other in the country. Plus when you go with managed web hosting we will also handle the entirety of everything that’s needed to have your business website in Saskatoon optimally set up and scaled as needed for maximum visibility to your customer base. Whatever business you’re in, we’ve got Canadian web hosting solutions for you.
What we do here is managed WordPress web hosting. While it will be the best fit for WordPress websites it might not be the best one for most business websites because they’re likely built on Linux. There’s plenty of smaller businesses that have a WordPress site for themselves in any city in Canada, and Saskatoon is that way too. Managed web hosting is the way to go for any of them as it’s decidedly affordable and the #1 thing owners are going to like about it is the way it means ongoing website SEO optimization. Which is always the top priority if your aim is to build your customer base online.
With this week’s entry we’re going to focus on the advantages of managed hosting in greater detail and keeping the focus on Saskatoon. The prairie skies are really quite something, and even in the dead of winter at night when it’s -30. The cold has never bothered us much either, and so if you’re a business owner then contact us for the best Saskatoon web hosting.
Strong Online Presence
Some businesses will have used a website builder, while others will pay for someone to build their website for them. It really depends on what you want / need and your intended audience is going to be. But getting the website assembled is just the start of having a strong online presence, and this leads directly to what you’ll need next – local web hosting Saskatoon. Hosting your site means choosing a company that stores its files and saves them online for the duration of your stay with them.
With the right Canadian web hosting solutions you’ll see the difference in how much maintenance your site requires, how quickly pages load for visitors and how much it costs you over time. The opposite of this could have your site being offline because of DDoS, and if you’re in business and selling goods or services online – or even just promoting your storefront – that’s something that can’t happen. Even for a day.
So it then becomes about deciding on a web hosting provider. Start by ensuring the provider has all the features your website will need. A good web host should be reliable and have a good track record of online websites. Look specifically for a host that offers VPS hosting in Canada if your site may have traffic spikes (let’s hope so!) and offers strong customer support. You'll also want to ensure the hosts' terms of service and price structure meet your needs and are compatible with your budget.
What to Look for When Choosing a Host
- Uptime and reliability – most web hosting providers in Canada are able to offer the same 99% uptime guarantee with web hosting that we do here at 4GoodHosting. Make sure you’re with one of them.
- Speed – 2 reasons why website page load speeds are important for businesses – 1. Prospective customers may click away and ‘bounce’ from your site if the homepage is allow to load 2. Page load speeds increase SEO
- Ease of use - You want your hosting service to be intuitive and easy to navigate, and with local web hosting in Saskatoon we can help you with design if that’s also something you need. A user-friendly website is important.
- Security - It’s essential that any eCommerce website is secure, and the most standard approach to protect financial information is to have an SSL certificate for website security installed. This can be arranged with your managed web hosting here too.
- Bandwidth and storage – If you’re going with VPS hosting for a business website in Canada then you’re going to want to have the assurance that the provider can provide the bandwidth and storage needed for your site.
Your Web Hosting Types
- Shared Hosting : Shared hosting is always going to be the most inexpensive website hosting. With this arrangement one server will be hosting multiple websites. The affordability is from the fact that more than one website is paying to be hosted on that server. The trade-off is in significantly less performance capacity. You won’t be choosing shared hosting for a business that is larger and has many site visitors arriving at any time. But for a small service provider in Saskatoon then a WordPress website and shared hosting may be just fine.
- VPS Hosting : VPS hosting is a popular choice for local web hosting in Saskatoon when the person has a medium-sized business or larger, and it’s the type of business where customers nearly always find their provider online. With VPS you get a virtual server that functions much like a separate physical server. You have more control than shared hosting, and with VPS you have something of a bandwidth guarantee – your site is going to be able to handle traffic spikes. Managed VPS hosting is the best choice for business that are comfortable with paying for the best web hosting possible.
- Cloud Hosting : Cloud technology has been hugely advantageous for web hosting with the way that website source files are stored in the cloud and not physically. There are different types of cloud hosting. Some providers host your website's files on their servers and provide access to those files, while hosting your website on their servers is how it’s done by other providers. Cloud web hosting can be a way to defends against a website being down if the server becomes inoperative. But this is something that will almost never happen if ever at all if you are with a reputable Canadian web hosting provider.
- Dedicated Server Hosting : Dedicated server hosting is going to be most expensive, but it means an entire server is for your website and your website only. It gives you complete control over one server. You can choose the location and hardware of the server, plus the type of web hosting OS that is best for you. Keep in mind that dedicated hosting requires more of you, as you'll need to manage the server and its software and that includes installing patches and updates.
Not up for that but still need the ultimate in reliability and resource availability for a website? Managed hosting is an option and generally speaking if you’re going with dedicated web hosting you’re big enough to be able to afford paying more for any service that is directly connected to the growth and profitability of your business. The managed option is always there with Canadian web hosting solutions.
Wrap it Up
That’s not a specific tip there, but we will conclude this look at local web hosting Saskatoon by agreeing that hosting is the supremely valuable partner for any business website in the city. The reason there are so many options is that a person who operates an upholstery repair business out of their garage is going to have very different needs when it comes to making locals aware of their business. While a local pub and eatery is going to need to have a stronger online presence and maybe the need for VPS hosting because of that. Contact us for the best Saskatoon web hosting.
