We always knew you could do it! You’ve blitzed through the process of setting your business up online, gone from a humble start-up to a growing scale-up, and now you’re ready for take-off. Or maybe you’re looking to stay as a local, homegrown business, but you’re just planning for the future.
Whatever your journey looks like, if you’re at the stage where your client base has grown exponentially or your website is getting more views than it can handle, a new web hosting solution could be calling. But are you ready to answer? Read on to discover five signs that you may need to pick up the phone on dedicated hosting…
1. Your page traffic has increased
Websites should be able to handle spikes of up to 30 times their daily average. This kind of guarantee is particularly important around the festive season, as well as during business-specific marketing campaigns or promotions.
So if you’re consistently finding that your website traffic is above average, it’s probably time to switch to a more powerful hosting solution. If you don’t, your customers might be negatively affected…
2. Your website performance has decreased
Speaking of which, a website that is operating above its traffic capacity is more prone to slow loading speeds, crashes, and subsequent downtime. This might seem like an easy fix for your developers, but put yourself in your customers’ shoes.
Imagine you’ve spent 30 minutes scrolling through welliesforwalruses.com, picking out the perfect pair of kicks, only for the whole website to crash once you click ‘checkout’. Having already dedicated a significant chunk of time to a faulty site, how likely are you to return? Not to mention recommend it to a friend?
3. You need more resources
From storage space to developers’ time, a big business uses a lot of resources. If you’re still lagging behind with a shared server or VPS, you’ve probably noticed a lack of both recently.
As your business offering grows, you add products or services to your site, and you notice more bugs that need fixing, it’s natural that your trusted website will run out of space. So, upgrade to a hosting solution with a greater bandwidth while you’ve still got some breathing room.
4. Your site needs better security
By now, you’ve probably dealt with one or two (or three) cybersecurity scams. Phishing emails, impersonation and malware threats are part and parcel of running a successful business, but these shouldn’t be affecting your customers.
While shared hosting and VPS are cost-effective, flexible website hosting options, they can be vulnerable to attacks. For example, if just one user on a shared server is infiltrated by hackers, it can put everyone on that server at risk. A switch could see your growing business defended better against growing threats.
5. You need more customisation options
Is your marketing department breathing down your neck about improving the user experience of your website? Maybe your dev team is complaining about the lack of control they have over things like CPU and RAM? If that sounds familiar, it could be that your current site lacks customisation options.
Websites hosted on shared servers and VPS are bound by resource constraints, making it difficult to modify bandwidth, storage and system settings. By hosting your website on your very own server, you set the limits for your business – with pre-installed software like Plesk and cPanel making customisation even easier.
Dedicated to growth? Choose Fasthosts Dedicated Servers
Supercharging your business’ growth means supporting it with the right resources. But there’s no such thing as ‘one size fits all’.
That’s why we offer a number of different Dedicated Server packages, including Intel and AMD servers as well as more powerful Storage Servers for unlimited growth. Plus, with 24/7 support on hand, we’ll never leave you in the dark. Reach out to our expert team today.
