How do you choose hosting for a startup or small business?

If you are founding a start-up or running a small business, a reliable and efficient website is crucial. Your website is often the digital business card of your company. That's why the web hosting you choose should be perfectly tailored to your needs. But how do you choose the right hosting for your start-up or small business? In this blog post, we give you a step-by-step guide to making the best choice.

Outline the requirements for your website

Choosing the right hosting starts with knowing exactly what your website needs.





Think about questions like: How do you want to create or maintain your website? Do you need e-commerce functions such as a web store or payment methods? For a simple company website, the WordPress content management system is sufficient in many cases, as it is a system that is easy to learn and allows you to start creating your website quickly. Maintenance is also easy thanks to the option of automatic updates. E-commerce websites often come with a separate content management system, such as NopCommerce, WooCommerce, OpenCart, Prestashop, etc. Setting up these websites often requires a bit more homework, where you also need to pay attention to things like a paid SSL certificate and security. All of these websites can be run on SSD in our cheapest packages. For more power and your own dedicated pool, you can also check out our Managed or Core packages.

Choose a scalable solution

As a start-up or small business, you probably want to start with an affordable solution, but at the same time your hosting should be able to grow with your business. Our SSD hosting packages are ideal for start-up websites. As you grow, your hosting package can be expanded in terms of disk space and equipped with its own dedicated pool if required. You can also switch to a Managed WordPress hosting package or a .NET Core package. This can also be easily upgraded.

Pay attention to the loading speed

Nothing is more frustrating for your customers than a website that loads slowly or is regularly offline. That's why you need to pay attention to the speed and, of course, the uptime of the website. Our hosting guarantees 99.99 percent uptime. It is up to you to make the website as fast as possible; we have a lot of information and tools available for this. Thanks to our data centers in Utrecht and Amsterdam, your website is quickly available worldwide, also thanks to our global DNS solution.

Opt for excellent customer support

As a start-up or small company, you often don't have a large IT team to take care of your website. That's why good customer support is crucial. Since 2011, we have been providing our customers with the support they expect and are available for assistance via our online chat and ticket system. Here we achieve an average response time of 4 hours. And we can often help you quickly directly via the online chat.

Ensure adequate security

Security is of the utmost importance, regardless of the size of your company. Even small websites can be the target of cyber attacks. Choose MijnHostingPartner.nl because of our standard SSL certificates from the provider Lets Encrypt (for encrypting data), which can also be extended with a paid SSL certificate. You can also add the add-on for daily incremental backups or set up a backup procedure yourself.

A hosting package for every budget

Costs are of course an important factor, especially for a start-up. At MijnHostingPartner.nl, we have an affordable hosting package for every type of website. Our versatile SSD package is available from as little as 50 GB of disk space and you can commit to a whole year for less than a week's purchase. So you can be online with your business for a year for a small investment.

Upgrade for the future

Of course, you also want to be able to expand in the future as your business grows. With us, you have the option to easily upgrade to more storage space, Exchange email addresses and many other upgrades within your package. However, our total packages are total, and you won't easily run up against limits to achieve your goals. Within an SSD package, a Managed WordPress hosting package or a .NET Core hosting package, upgrading within this segment is easily possible. If you want to switch to another segment, for example by switching from an SSD package to a WordPress package, this is also possible; we can then take care of the transfer for you. So make sure you have the right foundation with a hosting package from MijnHostingPartner.nl!