How To Avoid Down Site During The Black Friday

Is your business or website growing and becoming popular?

Has your email marketing, social media and website presence become such an integral part of your business process, that any interruption to service or website down work can slow your operations and mess up everything?

Are you getting ready to the biggest sale period of the year?

 

It is the time to look into upgrading your managed hosting package to a higher level.

What does it mean to upgrade?

There are four primary hosting types, Shared hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated hosting and Cloud hosting. Each type of hosting offers some benefits to your website and has some cons. In order to choose the right hosting, prioritize the requirements for your business. If you have a website already, most likely you have started with a shared hosting to spend less budget at the beginning. However, as your business is growing and your website receives more traffic, accordingly, you will want to move to another hosting (VPS, dedicated or cloud) to continue growth.

While we do offer a great number of package options, in this article, we would like to review the reasons for upgrading to a Dedicated or VPS managed hosting. Undoubtedly, you may just need to upgrade to a higher level of a hosting plan (i.e. to enlarge the amount of memory on your hard drive, to add additional emails or databases). However, if you want to be sure your server is up during the holiday period and there is no need to worry about the processes on your website – managed VPS hosting is your choice. Our support team will help you to choose the right package and the amount of services relevant to your business goals at this point.

Do I need to upgrade?

It is good you are interested in this issue quite before the Black Friday and all the further seasonal sales. Let us look at the 5 reasons for upgrading:

1. Uptime. Here, at Finestshops we guarantee 100% uptime for our clients, who use VPS managed hosting plans. It does not mean you will certainly experience downtime using another type of hosting, however, we cannot guarantee 100 % uptime of your website during the toughest periods of a holiday season. Form a business perspective; holiday season is a stressful time for business owners, so the expenses for a managed hosting worth the stability and speed of your website, and time and aggravation of you as a business owner.
2. Content and applications. If you would like to run a holiday marketing campaign, using some large applications (e.g. to allow your consumers create a holiday collage) or to host holiday videos you may need to upgrade your hosting plan. This is to ensure you do have enough hosting resources and, in case you use a shared hosting plan, your website doesn’t hamper the work of other sites on the same server.
3. Server access. If you would like to install extra software or to experiment with the existing one – you would need a direct access to the server. This is only available with Dedicated or VPS hosting. Moreover, having a managed hosting, you need not to be a developer – you just need to discuss your idea with our support team and to get it done.
4. Landing pages. You may want to create separate landing pages for holiday offers, using additional domains. With a managed VPS hosting, you can have all those domains on one account, controlling them and adding/deleting them when needed.
5. Business growth. It is one of the most obvious reasons for upgrade, however, if your business still does not have that big traffic on the website – it is always better to be prepared in advance and also as a motivation for you to grow (from the reverse). Moreover, if you are planning a large holiday marketing campaign and are going to have more attention to your brand – it is better to think one step ahead and to upgrade now to ensure your site will always be available.

Whether your business is growing steadily or you are new to the Internet and plan to make a dash during this holiday season – think about upgrading in advance. We have a number of VPS managed hosting packages to fit your needs and business goals. Below, you can take a glance on what we offer, and following this link you can get more details.