Church Web Hosting Must be Reliable and Secure

January 9, 2010 · Filed Under Marketing and Advertising, Web Development

Catherine Smith wrote an interesting article entitled, “Small Business Web Hosting Must be Reliable and Secure on a web hosting review site, and it got me to thinking about what is important for church web hosting.

1) Reliability is essential – Regardless of why you have a web property, you want it to be available to people when they find you. Nothing is more unprofessional than having a broken, or slow loading site.

2) Security is essential – The last thing you want is for some hacker group to break into your site and deface it with a message that would be offensive to your congregants or visitors. For that matter you don’t want someone breaking into your hosting site in order to store content that they make accessible to others, i.e., music, warez, or goodness forbid porn.

3) Affordability is essential – Let’s face it. Hosting has long been a commodity service. Most churches will not be hosting extremely complex sites, or serving their pages up to millions of people. (Although that would be awesome.)

I have had the privilege, and experience of using quite a number of hosting environments over the years. For churches and religious organizations, Bluehost would be one of the providers at the top of my list. They low hosting cost even includes your domain name.

Web Hosting $6.95 Per Month / Free Domain

In her article, Catherine wrote, “A good provider should be like a “one-stop-shop” that provides a solution to small business web hosting, email, ecommerce, domain name hosting and other related services.” I concur.

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