Website Hosting

Hosting affects your website’s speed, security, and reliability. Poor hosting means slow page loads, which drives visitors away and hurts your Google rankings. It also affects email reliability, if your hosting is unreliable, your emails may not reach their destination.

Check your Google PageSpeed Insights score. If your site scores below 50 on mobile, hosting could be a factor. Other signs include pages taking more than 3 seconds to load, frequent downtime, or your hosting provider being difficult to reach when something goes wrong.

Green hosting means your website runs on servers powered by renewable energy. Our hosting uses 100% wind, solar, and hydroelectric energy through Krystal’s UK data centres. You get the same performance with a minimal environmental footprint.

Shared hosting is like living in a block of flats, you share resources with hundreds of other websites, so if your neighbour gets a traffic spike, your site slows down too. Managed hosting is more like having your own house with a caretaker, your site has dedicated resources, and someone is actively looking after performance, security, and updates on your behalf. For any business that relies on its website for enquiries, managed hosting is almost always worth the investment.

Yes, and it’s more straightforward than most people think. A proper migration involves copying all your files, databases, and emails to the new server, then updating your domain to point to the new location. Done correctly, there’s zero downtime and nothing is lost. The key is having someone experienced handle it, a botched migration can cause broken links, missing content, or email disruption.

An SSL certificate encrypts the data exchanged between your website and your visitors, think of it as a sealed envelope rather than a postcard. Without one, browsers display a “Not Secure” warning which puts visitors off immediately. It’s also a Google ranking factor, so not having one actively hurts your search visibility. Most good hosting providers include SSL as standard, so there’s really no reason not to have one.

Daily backups are the minimum for any business website. If your site handles e-commerce transactions or regular content updates, more frequent backups are sensible. The important thing is that backups are stored separately from your hosting server, if the server goes down and your backups are on the same server, they’re about as useful as keeping your spare house key inside the house.

It depends entirely on your hosting provider and support arrangement. With budget hosting, you might be waiting hours or even days for a response. With managed hosting, your provider should be monitoring your site around the clock and responding to issues before you even notice them. Every hour of downtime is a missed enquiry, so it’s worth knowing exactly what level of support you’re paying for and how quickly your provider will act.