Worry Free Hosting
Alongside the technical components of designing and constructing your website, it’s essential to consider where your site will be hosted to ensure its visibility on the internet. This crucial service, known as website hosting, plays a significant role in the overall success and performance of your site. At BAC MediaGroup, we include website hosting in your monthly service charge, allowing you to feel at ease knowing that our hosting provider ranks among the best globally. All BAC websites are hosted through Amazon Web Services, a highly esteemed web hosting service worldwide! Now, you can benefit from a trusted hosting provider that supports some of the largest corporations on the planet, right for your own website. Explore below some of the key features of website hosting on Amazon Web Services with BAC MediaGroup.
Key Tech Specs for Every Hosted Website with BAC MediaGroup
- Hosting is based on the Amazon Cloud with 99.999% uptime
- Free SSL certificate included with every site (HTTPS)
- Use any custom domain (already owned or purchased new)
- No ongoing maintenance or patching required for security
- All website updates are instantly live with one-click publishing
- Access your website for updates from any computer
- Unlimited bandwidth with no page restrictions
- Energy sourced from 70% renewable sources
Website Speed
Users hate slow websites and typically leave them immediately. Slow hosting servers are one of the primary causes of slow-loading sites and can have a very negative impact on your Google rankings. Hosts typically offer various plan levels for sites with low or high levels of traffic, which is known as bandwidth. The higher your bandwidth needs, the more expensive and important a quality host will be.
BAC's worry free hosting service is based on Amazon’s Cloud Hosting, which offers one of the largest and most stable hosting platforms on the planet. For that reason, Amazon's Hosting Service is used by many of the world’s largest and most complex websites.
When your site is published by BAC, it is instantly optimized and uploaded to the Amazon Hosting Service which delivers lightning fast page speed and typically ranks at the upper limit for Google’s PageSpeed test. This test is used to grade the speed of a website, and the higher the grade, the more likely your site is to rank highly on Google searches.
Content Delivery Network
If your website contains images or media – commonly known as “assets” on the web – they must be loaded from your hosting server the first time a user visits the site. The geographic location of your hosting server can have a big impact on the load speed of an asset. If your visitor is based in Asia and the website assets are being loaded from a US-based server, they may experience a lag in their load.
BAC's hosting service includes something known as a Global CDN (Content Delivery Network), which means that website assets are loaded from a server that is geographically close to the visitor. Global CDN’s are typically quite expensive to set up (hundreds of dollars a month for big sites), but can have a significant impact on website load speed. With our website hosting, every website automatically uses a Global CDN to significantly improve your user's experience with your website.
Website Security
If you’ve ever encountered a site on the web that displayed a “warning” when loaded in the browser, it probably has security issues. There’s nothing more damaging to your online reputation than having your site hacked and populated with inappropriate content.
Having your site “hacked” refers to a broad list of potential security issues. It’s less often the cause of a single direct hacker trying to modify your site, and more commonly the result of automated computer programs scanning the web looking for sites that have holes in their security.
For example, WordPress is a very popular content management system that often struggles with security issues. The use of extensive 3rd party plugins can open up WordPress to security exploits. As a result, it’s very important to stay on top of frequent updates for both the WordPress core system and any plugins used. That’s a big job, and it requires constant oversight and some technical expertise.
BAC's Worry-Free Hosting service through Amazon Web Hosting has built in security controls, and never requires clients to worry about performing any security updates, it's all handled by Amazon.
Free SSL Certificate Included
If you want your site to rank highly on Google, you need to follow their recommendations for security. In 2017, Google announced they would give preference to secure sites, meaning sites loaded as HTTPS instead of HTTP.
Converting to HTTPS means you need something called an SSL Certificate applied to your site. SSL Certificates are sold on an individual basis, and typically cost $50 – 150 per year depending on your needs. They also require some technical setup to properly install on a site; an incorrect setup could negatively impact your Google rankings.
BAC's Worry-Free Hosted sites include a free SSL certificate with each site published. This is a huge cost savings for businesses, and by conforming to Google’s recommended security practices you could see a big positive impact on your search rankings.
