More power, fewer headaches: introducing Web Hosting Plus at tsoHost

If you’re a regular visitor to the tsoHost website, you’ll have noticed that there’s a new member of the product family – Web Hosting Plus has joined the likes of WordPress hosting and cPanel hosting as part of the product brood.

But what exactly is Web Hosting Plus? In this blog, we ‘ll look at what it is, who it’s been designed for and the long list of benefits and inclusions that come with it.

What is Web Hosting Plus?

With Web Hosting Plus you get the sort of dedicated, unshared resources that you get with a virtual private server. However, it’s not as complicated to manage Web Hosting Plus as is it to manage a VPS, because Web Hosting Plus lets you manage your hosting account using the cPanel control panel.

Originally launched in 1996, cPanel makes hosting account management simple. The cPanel dashboard is illustrated with user-friendly icons that make it easy to do everything from adding domains to setting up email forwarding. Some jobs can even be done in a matter of clicks.

Who is Web Hosting Plus for?

Web Hosting Plus was created for anyone who runs resource intensive or high traffic websites. It’s particularly ideal for the following:

• Web designers

• Web developers

• Those who run eCommerce sites

• Sites that host a lot of videos, photos or downloads

• Websites that often go viral

• Anyone who needs more power for their sites but doesn’t have the technical knowledge to manage a virtual private server.

What are the top four benefits of Web Hosting Plus?

Speed

Websites hosted on Web Hosting Plus packages can load up to three times faster than those that rely on standard hosting. These seconds can make all the difference in the real world – page speed is one of the factors that Google uses to rank websites in order to determine where they appear in the search engine results.

Google says: “Slow loading sites frustrate users and negatively impact publishers.”

Research from Google has also found that 53 per cent of visits to websites are likely to be abandoned if pages take longer than three seconds to load, and that one out of two people expect a page to load in less than two seconds.

Dedicated resources

Unlike with standard web hosting, Web Hosting Plus bundles come with dedicated resources. So, you get the likes of CPU and RAM all to yourself. One of the major benefits of this is that Web Hosting Plus packages will never experience sluggishness or downtime due to the actions of other users on a server.

When you consider this in real world terms, it has big implications. According to research by Gartner, the average cost of IT downtime to big businesses is $5,600 per minute.

Flexibility

Web Hosting Plus customers have a lot of freedom over which CMSs, apps, and PHP versions they install. This is especially handy for customers who have custom-built websites that rely on specific versions of languages and other development tools.

Simplicity

As mentioned above, Web Hosting Plus comes with cPanel, which makes server admin simple. Its dashboard allows you to carry out dozens of tasks without needing an in-depth technical knowledge. Tasks include backing up and transferring web files, managing domains, checking disk usage and creating emails.

What’s more, cPanel comes with a bumper crop of learning resources and how to guides, which you can use if you get stuck.

What’s included in a Web Hosting Plus package?

tsoHost offers four levels of Web Hosting Plus bundles – Launch, Enhance, Grow and Expand.

Every package comes with:

• Unlimited websites

• A free domain name for a year, from a choice of .be .biz .co.uk .uk .com .de .eu .info .ltd.uk .me .me.uk .net .org .org.uk .link .website

• Unlimited databases and file count

• Free SSL certificates - unless you choose otherwise, all of your websites on your Business Hosting package will be automatically secured with a valid DV SSL certificate.

• Unmetered bandwidth

Storage, memory and CPU vary, depending on the package. To find out more about the specifications visit the Web Hosting Plus product pages.