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How to choose hosting for a business website

Cheap hosting is expensive when your site goes down. A plain-language guide to what matters: speed, backups, security and support.

Development

Hosting is invisible until it fails. Then it is the only thing anyone talks about. Here is what we look at before recommending where a site should live.

Four things that matter

  • Speed — servers and caching close to your audience
  • Backups — daily, automatic and tested
  • Security — SSL, updates, firewalls and monitoring
  • Support — a real person, in your timezone, who knows your site

One team, end to end

That is why we started Geel Hosting: so the team that builds a site can also keep it fast, secure and online — with no finger-pointing between vendors.

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