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how do you choose hosting for a small business site?

Accountancy firm, about 15 pages plus a contact form, no shop. They care about uptime and their email working, not much else. What do you weigh up when picking a host for a client like that? Support quality, server location, price, something I'm not thinking of?
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alice_19 Nov 12, 2026
eliza.clark
ask where the backups are kept. some cheap hosts store them on the same server as the site, so if that server dies you lose both. also check whether email comes with it, and whether you'll end up on google workspace or microsoft anyway. plenty of small businesses pay for host email they never use.
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inshya Oct 14, 2026
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For a typical brochure site I look at four things: servers reasonably close to your customers, daily backups you can restore yourself, free SSL, and support that actually answers. Then check the renewal price, not the first-year deal, because that's where the cheap plans get you. If it's WordPress and nobody technical is looking after it, managed WordPress hosting is worth the extra few quid a month.
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