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Freezone Wishes Everyone A Happy Birthday
No comments · Posted by Sean Smith in Domain, Hosting, Web Hosting
Freezone’s lucky 13th birthday celebrations are here at last. This means that Freezone is offering extra savings to everyone on top of their already lowest-in-the-industry price structure. Just because more discount pricing is on offer does not mean that our unbeatable record of reliability will suffer in any way. This is not some stripped down offer. The same fantastic service we have provided for the past thirteen years simply costs less while our 13th birthday celebrations are taking place.
When you order a web hosting package from Freezone during our birthday event, you get everything you need.
• Free domain names are included in every package. There are no tricky extra charges hidden in any Freezone offer. You need a domain name to get online and you get one. To charge extra for this critical link in establishing a web presence is as dishonest as insisting that the price of a new car does not include the cost of a steering wheel.
• Real human beings are available to help you whenever you need it and not just when somebody feels like answering the phone. Freezone has experts, not temp staff, ready and waiting twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, holidays most definitely included. To us, reliability means being there whenever you need assistance or have questions.
• You get the software you need to manage your new internet property with ease and power. All of it comes at no cost to you whatsoever. You can see which parts of your web presence are drawing in visitors and which elements are being met with little interest. This allows you to maximize the value of every web visitor.
Unwrap a present for yourself during our 13th birthday celebrations. Give yourself the gift of more discount pricing, greater reliability, free 24/7 support . Take advantage of this stellar opportunity to make a name for yourself and your business on the biggest stage of all.
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Web Hosting Requirements For Small Businesses
No comments · Posted by admin in Small business, Support, Web Development, Web Hosting
Small businesses require reliable web hosting services to ensure existing and potential clients are able to locate them easily via popular search engines. New companies cannot operate profitably and successfully without dedicated hosting services for their domains. They require the following services from the hosting company:
Dedicated Servers
Web hosting providers should run your website on dedicated servers that operate on either Linux or Windows operating systems. Such servers will guarantee users full access to your site with optimum up time.
You might have spent heavily on design and customization of your domain, but an unreliable host can cause its demise. Online users do not waste time on sites that take ages to load and respond. You might end up losing a substantial number of potential customers and clients besides denting the credibility of your business.
Round the Clock Monitoring and Security
Online businesses do not shut their doors but serve worldwide customers and clients day and night. It is therefore essential to have a web hosting company that monitors domains functionality and security concerns round the clock.
Full time Technical Support
Even the most advanced technology goes haywire at times and requires repair and configuration by experts. Small online businesses have to shoulder this risk during their operations.
Nonetheless, web hosting companies should keep disruptions at a bare minimum, and deal with incidences forthwith. The hosting company should offer twenty-four hour support services for the website. Ideal providers are available at all times even during holidays, which ironically are the busiest days for online businesses.
Back up Services
A reliable web hosting company offers complete back up facilities for your server, website and database files. Back up is part of baseline security measures that enable swift restoration of your site in case of a mishap. It can take more time to restore your website from a remote server than from the hosts computers.
Numerous small businesses rely on the internet to sustain their upkeep. Web hosting services are critical to the success of such businesses. They are responsible for operating and maintaining the website on a round the clock basis. Hence, they must offer services such as dedicated servers, monitoring and security, and twenty-four hour support services for clients websites.
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Choosing A Web Hosting Provider
No comments · Posted by admin in Hosting, Small business, Support
The web hosting business is currently swamped with thousands of companies that are offering the service. Each of this companies claims to have the best services at the best rates. This makes it very difficult for those who want to procure hosting services. Those who are new to the business will find it especially challenging to differentiate between the good and bad providers. Below are a few pointers that will help you make an informed decision when choosing a web hosting provider.
Reliability is the single most important attribute of a good web hosting provider. Reliability covers up-time, fees as well as delivery of the agreed capacity at all times. While some providers have frequent outages, others deliver fluctuating capacity which affects the quality of experience for those visiting your website. A reliable web host is one who can deliver the agreed capacity with no interruptions. Fees are another important aspect of reliability as provider should calculate and charge all fees as per the indicated rates. Some hosting companies have hidden fees and charges that could negatively impact your finances.
You can establish a web hosting company’s reliability through the online reviews and opinions posted by current and former clients of the company. Though they are not always one hundred percent correct, they are a good indicator of what other clients think of the company. If a company has too many negative remarks on its reviews, it is best to keep away.
Another way through which you can evaluate a company for reliability is from the way they respond to inquiries and how well they handle you as a potential client. This will help you know how long it is likely to take them to respond to issues which may affect your hosting once you are a client. If a company cannot quickly and satisfactorily deal with questions from potential clients, they are likely going to offer you very poor technical support.
Although there many other factors that should be looked into when choosing a reliable web hosting provider, reliability should always be at the top of your list of considerations. Once that is assured, you can then proceed to looking at other considerations.
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The Competition Hates Freezone Web Hosting
No comments · Posted by admin in Hosting, Web Hosting
Many people have a false idea about how to open up shop on the internet. They assume that it requires the skills of an expensive computer programmer, plus the investment of thousands of pounds in the purchase of a website address and the hiring of web hosting service providers. With any luck at all, your competition will continue to believe this fallacy, and stay away from the millions of customers who do all of their shopping online.
Here at Freezone Internet, we have the UK’s most affordable web hosting packages. Your business can be up and running for less than two pounds a month. That includes everything you need to get started. You get a free domain name, mailboxes, and the analytical web hosting tools that let you know when you have outgrown your current package and need to step things up a bit.
Freezone has been in the web hosting business for more than eleven years. That means we know what works, what you need, and what you can easily do without. We are definitely not in the business of upselling you into web hosting packages you have no use for. However, we can show you how to make a go of it, and then guide you into equally affordable plans with more capacity as your web presence grows.
Perhaps you are already online and looking for ways to reduce your costs, or interested in an upgrade to a more reliable web hosting provider with better options. Freezone is the place for you as well. Our services simply cost less, our reliability rate is always among the industry leaders, and we offer all the tools you need to win.
In addition to a full suite of analytical tools, we offer the easy step-by-step website builders you need to create your own unique, artistic web presence without spending a fortune on consultants, or driving yourself insane with complicated techno-jargon. The whole idea is to make web hosting easy and affordable for our customers.
Once they start to grow, we stand ready to grow right alongside them. Let Freezone show you how to pump up the profit with turn key online purchasing packages and wider bandwidth. Freezone Internet is the fastest, easiest, most reliable, and most money-saving web hosting service provider in the UK. Whatever you need, we can handle it for you.
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5 tips for choosing the right web hosting company for small businesses
No comments · Posted by Freezone in Hosting, Web Hosting
Once you’ve decided to take your business online, perhaps the single most important decision you have to make is to choose the right web hosting company.
And unless you are fairy familiar with this area or have access to advice in the way of your own web developer or webmaster, choosing the right web host is not as easy it might sound.
Given that your website is likely to be the first port of call for your customers / target market, you need to make sure you ask the right questions before signing up with any hosting company.
Here are our 5 top tips when choosing your web hosting company.
1. Customer service and support
Can you get hold of your web hosting company when you need help? And what options do you have – telephone, web chat, ticket or all three?
Let’s face it, most small businesses don’t have an ‘IT department’. So any issue with your website or email service is likely to prompt a call to your web hosting company. And unless you can get hold of them immediately, your business is likely to suffer.
Therefore, before signing up to any contract, look for prominent contact numbers for customer services and technical support on their website. If a contact number is not prominent, look for another hosting company
In short, satisfy yourself that you can get hold of the company when you need to, day or night.
2. Uptime
Just how reliable is the web hosting company’s service? What’s their uptime? (99.9% uptime is pretty common.) Ask about their data centre. Quiz them about whether they own their hardware or are they providing service through a third party. Enquire about their contingency plans in case of any fatal hardware or data centre failures.
3. Price
While you should never consider web hosting as a commodity and focus on price alone, nevertheless, the cost of hosting a typical small business website should not be much. You can get a perfectly decent web hosting package for as little as £20 per year including a free domain name.
4. Features
Don’t get distracted by features you might never need. Focus on the core items: storage space, bandwidth, mailboxes, databases, easy-to-use control panel (such as Plesk) and free tools (such as Sitebuilder) to create a professional looking website. Most other things are likely to be nice to have but not really necessary.
Blogs and forum facilities are becoming increasingly important. So look for these and also look for available guidance to help you integrate these into your website.
5. Platform
The choice here is fairly straight forward and driven by how your website might have been created. Most websites work under Linux platform. However, if you want to run Windows specific applications such as ASP.NET or MS SQL, you’ll need a Windows platform. If you are at all unsure, a simple chat with your hosting company should provide you with the answer.
Further information – if you have any questions regarding hosting, contact Freezone Internet on 0845 117 0366 or visit www.freezone.co.uk.
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