The importance of Internet has been rapidly growing during the past few years and decades. Many people now create personal websites just for fun - to share some photos in an online gallery or dwell on some ideas on their blog. But any business owner that is looking to have a shot at success must be aware that they need web presence otherwise sooner or later they will go out of business. And in order to get that website online they will need a business hosting as well.
Web hosting is the service that allows a certain website to be uploaded on a web server and thus get published online. Business hosting is a type of hosting that is meant for a business website. But what does that actually mean? Well, it means that it is a reliable web hosting service because a business website must be online at all times and it must be working with the appropriate speed as well since a slowly opening website is almost as good as no website at all, sometimes even worse.
There are many companies like Lonex.com that provide specially designed packages that are suitable for business hosting but you should never believe something just because a company says it is true. I will show you some of the key features that you must look for in a business web hosting package.
In my opinion first and foremost a business hosting package must be reliable. I said it before and I will say it again, there is no better way to lose a client than your website being unreachable, regardless of whether it is actually down or is opening really slow. As you can see Lonex guarantees 99.9% network uptime which is good if it is indeed true but as I said we should never take something for a fact just because the company says so. But Lonex is ready to back that promise with a 30 days money back guarantee. Now that is different story. If they don't offer top level web hosting services, they will simply go out of business with all the clients getting their money back before a month goes by. To make things even better, they also have 1 hour response time guarantee on the technical support queries which is good.
Another important thing for a business hosting package is to be able to host a shopping cart application, especially if you are about to sell your products online. Lonex offers even more than that - with every web hosting account you will get the Elefante Installer that will be able to set up over 40 applications for you, including two different shopping carts, and the best part is that you can do that with just a few clicks and not technical skill whatsoever. That is what I call quality service.
When you have an online shopping cart it is almost certain that there will be online payments as well or at least order forms that will contain sensitive information and it is a must to secure such pages. To do that you business hosting must allow installation of an SSL certificate that will encrypt the information and secure it for you. Such installation requires a dedicated IP address and Lonex offers that and an add-on service for the packages that do not include one be default. Moreover, Lonex not just supports the installation of the secure certificates, they sell them as well and there is no better option than to get all your services from one and the same company. That way you avoid any problems that may occur to miscommunication.