Hey! It's 2019! It's time to check out who's leading in the world of speedy web hosting and to see how you're doing with taking advantage of all that power. If you're still hosting your website GoDaddy or someplace like that, then you're probably not only overpaying, you're also not getting the best website performance you could be. Not that GoDaddy isn't great for some things, like buying domains, for example. But when it comes to hosting and speed value and performance, there are simply better choices.
In this post we will discuss the best choices for webhosting in the cloud. Best choices for speed, for cost and for serving up your sites to the masses. Though we don't endorse and services specifically, we do have our opinions about who delivers the best in each of those categories and who does not. We hope you find this information valuable, and of course, contact Empro if you need help moving your site to the cloud.
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What do you think of when someone says "the cloud"? There are probably thousands of answers to that question. If you're a technologist, then you probably have a pretty good idea that the term is very generic. It can mean many things technically. If you're a marketing person, then you probably see the term as something useful attractive and trendy. Something you can use to help sell your web product or service. But for a website owner, the cloud is really where you want your site to be. In today's world, old fashioned web hosting is not helping you. Your website is likely sitting on an actual computer with disks that have been whirring along for years in a computer that reflects technology several years old. In essence, it's needlessly slow and under-powered. Putting your site on the cloud will not only help your user's experience by delivering your site much faster and more reliably, it will also help your SEO. Search engines love fast websites that are always there.
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For several years now, content management systems have been on a relentless march towards website dominance. Since the appearance of "free" solutions on the market, vast numbers of website operators have switched to content management systems as the preferred way to create and maintain websites. And there is little to wonder as to why that has happened. Once reserved only for those with big budgets like companies and organizations, open source solutions have brought that power to the masses. Solutions like WordPress Joomla and Drupal have taken over the web world and solutions like Magento have come to dominate small-scale e-commerce sites. But with all this amazing and ostensibly free technology comes a responsibility that most web owners are not prepared for. The responsibility to protect their users by keeping their sites secure and up to date.
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