Attention UK Website Owners!

You know how some business owners hastily look for a website hosting near them or even insist for a web host from the same country as they are? If you are from the UK for example, getting a UK website hosting is really not necessary most of the time and can cost you more money.

4 Reasons why you do NOT need to get a local web hosting service:

  • If your potential customers are in England, Wales, Scotland or NI, chances are their internet speed is already really fast compared to many other parts of the world, like Malaysia for example. You and others in the UK can access any website from anywhere in the world without even noticing the page load time. Your visitors probably will not feel the difference if your website is hosted in the US or next door to them. If your intended audiences are in a third-world country, then that is a whole different story.

  • What do you know about your local hosting company? Most local companies are smaller companies and there are higher chances one can be a fly-by-night company and will not be there for very long.
  • In many cases, smaller companies are probably just another hosting reseller. You can save so much more by going to a major and popular hosting company like Hostgator or Godaddy which has servers in different locations in the US and around the world. Visit this Hostgator review and Godaddy review for verification.
  • If you already have your blog or website design packaged with web hosting, then you have one more reason to move your website to an independent hosting service. If your web designer and the web hosting is the same organization, this same company can easily take your website as hostage. Next they can ask for more fees whenever they want. They can keep increasing your website cost year after year. If they say their cost of managing your website is increasing, they are lying because global web hosting cost is actually dropping each year. You can actually keep your web designer or website developer but you should have more control over your website by choosing your own web hosting company.

But do not get us wrong. If a UK web hosting hosting is well established, affordable and reliable, you should not hesitate to put your website on their server. There are a few popular hosting companies from the UK such as:

To conclude, you can get better deal for your money by choosing a popular web hosting service located in the US. You will be better off in the long run if you host with a well-known and an established webhost, rather than look for the easy and closer alternative to your home. They won’t let you go and see the physical server hosting your website in person even if you walk in to the data centre.