Your website needs a home, and we’ll keep it running
Just like a house needs a strong foundation, a reliable power supply, and regular maintenance, your website needs a solid hosting and maintenance plan to thrive.
Hosting is the plot of land your website is built on. Without it, your website simply doesn’t exist. Reliable hosting ensures your website is always accessible to visitors.
Maintenance is handyman. It keeps your website running smoothly, secure, and up-to-date. Just as you’d fix a leaky roof or a dripping pipe in your house, website maintenance addresses security threats, ensures optimal performance, and keeps your website functioning at its best.
Investing in quality hosting and maintenance is an investment in your online success. It ensures your website is always available to your customers, provides a positive user experience, and protects your online presence.
When you host with Nextwave you get free maintenance included. It’s our way of not nickel-and-diming our clients. Maintenance includes updates to existing content. It does not include the creation of new graphics (but does include adding new images provided by our clients), copywriting, custom programming, or creating new pages. Unused minutes do not accrue.
A backup is a snapshot of a website, a save point if you will, that can be used to restore a website in case of emergency, like if you majorly mess up the site or it gets hacked.
We offer three day of backups with our lowest plan and 30 with the others.
Every time you pull up a webpage your browser is pulling up several files: the HTML file, any images on the page, videos, CSS files, what have you. And each of those files take up anywhere from a few kilobytes to several megabytes. Bandwidth is how much of that data is loaded.
Some hosts manage how much bandwidth a site is allowed to serve. It’s like you have a bucket of water, and every file that gets loaded is a sip from the bucket.
We give you unlimited bandwidth.
If you have an existing website, it has to be moved to our server. Since you’re going to be paying us to host the site anyway, we don’t see a point in charging you for the time it takes us to move it over.
Hackers are constantly coming up with new ways to infect websites. We’ll scan your website for any vulnerabilities in the plugins and themes used in your website to stay ahead of known security weaknesses.
Backups are run before automatic updates are performed to make sure any unaccounted-for incompatibilities don’t break your site.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates encrypt data sent between a website and a browser to prevent hackers from stealing data.
Our server is tweaked to maximize performance so your site loads fast and makes your visitors happy.
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network of servers distributed around the world that keeps cached copies of websites so content can be served more quickly from the server closest to the person browsing it. We use Cloudflare, a well-respected CDN with fast speeds, an extensive global network, and top-notch security features.
We use a number of premium plugins and apps to enhance the websites we build in various ways, from user interfaces to security. We include them with all the sites we build and host.
We like to work closely with our clients and get to know them. If you have any sort of issue with your site, you can reach someone who cares about your business and will work to get it fixed as soon as possible.
A staging site is a copy of your existing website that can be worked on while your main site is still live and available to the public. They’re really useful when making any sort of extensive changes so you don’t have to take your live site down or put up a maintenance page.
Our Unlimited clients are eligible for a completely brand new website design every 30 months. This is an exciting feature I haven’t personally seen anywhere else and it means you can keep your website up to date with the latest in marketing and design trends.
You absolutely need website hosting! Think of it like a plot of land for the house that is your website.
Just like you need a physical address for your business, your website needs a digital address to exist online. Web hosting provides that digital address.
It’s where your website lives. All the files that make up your website – the images, text, and code – are stored on the hosting server.
Without hosting, no one can see your website. It’s like having a beautiful house but nobody knows where it is.
So, yes, web hosting is essential for anyone who wants to have an online presence. It’s the foundation upon which your entire digital marketing strategy is built.
The short of it is that hosting is absolutely essential for a website. Hosting provides the server space for all the things that make up a website: files, code, images.
Without hosting, you literally cannot have a website.
Here’s the general overview:
Free hosting does exist, but it’s always very limited. You may have very little space to host your files, or your bandwidth (basically the amount of resources it takes to display your website) is limited.
You could have little to no support or not much in the way of important features like backups or security.
You may have to display ads on your site, which is definitely not something a professional business website should have. You could even end up displaying ads for your competitors!
No hosting provider devotes a good amount of resources to to their free accounts, which means you’re likely to be on a server shared with thousands of other websites all competing for the same resources. This leads to long load times, which people hate, and more likelihood of downtime.
Hosting is one of the things where you get what you pay for. If you have a professional business, free hosting is not the way to go.
While cheap hosting might seem appealing, it can often lead to more problems than it solves. Here’s why:
Cheap hosting often means shared servers with many websites crammed onto them. This can lead to slow loading times for your website, frustrating visitors and potentially hurting your search engine rankings.
Overcrowded servers can also lead to frequent downtime, meaning your website is unavailable to visitors. This not only frustrates customers but also damages your credibility and can even impact your search engine rankings.
Cheap plans often come with limited storage, bandwidth, and RAM, which can restrict your website’s growth and functionality.
Cheap hosting providers may have weaker security measures, leaving your website vulnerable to hacks, malware attacks, and data breaches.
You might encounter long wait times or unhelpful support staff when you need assistance.
Some cheap hosting providers may have hidden fees or limitations that can significantly increase your costs in the long run.
While it’s tempting to go for the cheapest option, investing in a reputable hosting provider like Nextwave Concepts is crucial for the long-term success of your website.
Hosting your own website can range from relatively simple to quite challenging, depending on your technical skills and the complexity of your website.
If you’re comfortable with technology and enjoy learning new things, you might find it rewarding to learn the basics of server administration, security, and maintenance. There are plenty of resources available online to learn from.
However, hosting your own server requires technical expertise. You’ll need to understand concepts like server configuration, security protocols, and troubleshooting.
It can be very time-consuming. Setting up and maintaining your own server does require some skills and ongoing attention.
You also face an increased potential for downtime. If your server experiences any issues, like power outages, hardware failures, your website will be unavailable. Figuring out the problem and fixing it can be complicated and a big time-suck.
You’re responsible for securing your server and protecting it from constantly evolving cyber-threats. One more thing to stay on top of.
If you’re not comfortable with technical tasks or, probably even more importantly, don’t have time to learn how to and stay on top of running a server and would prefer to focus on other aspects of your business, hiring a professional hosting provider (like us) is generally the more practical option.
Ultimately, the decision of whether or not to host your own website depends on your individual needs, technical skills, and available resources.
tl;dr: Don’t waste your time. It’s well worth it to have someone tale care of hosting for you.
Website hosting costs run the gamut. You can get free hosting (very highly not recommended for a serious business), you can pay a few bucks a month for some shared hosting, but then you’re running into potential performance, reliability, security, and support issues.
Some hosting can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, but unless you’re running an Amazon or a Facebook, you probably don’t need that level of investment either.
At Nextwave, we offer a few levels of hosting and include maintenance packages with our hosting so you never have to worry about how to keep your website up to date.
We put an emphasis on speed, security, and ease of use. Each of those is taken care of in part on the hosting server and in part on the website. We use some premium plugins on the website end because in our years of building websites, they are the tools we’ve found that work the best.
You can, but your site won’t work or run as well. We’ve got servers configured to work best with the sites we build.
Some of our clients have been contractually stuck with other hosts, and in those cases they pay for the licenses themselves, although since we have developer licenses we’re able to offer them as part of a special maintenance package for less than they’d be able to get them themselves. Feel free to contact us to ask more about that.
Are you asking if you get rollover minutes? (Am I dating myself here?)
No, unused maintenance time does not carry over for future use. Use it or lose it.
