Hosting Ireland – “A Web
Hosting Ireland Buyers Guide”
Web Hosting Ireland - The
Facts:
Disc Space?
Web hosting Ireland:
A web site needs Disc Space on a permanently connected Host
Server in Ireland.
• Disc Space handles your web design documents, images
and email passing through you web design.
• Most business in Ireland will need to host a web design
with fewer than 20 pages of about 50KB/page.
• For most sites 50MB of Disc Space would easily cope
with a good-sized Website.
• 50MB can be easily increased to include e-commerce
hosting, databases, message boards etc.
Website Traffic?
• Visitors to your site will cause data to pass through
the Disc Space. This is called “Data Transfer”or“Traffic”
• Traffic includes email volume. Large email volume
can dictate Traffic Allowance (TA).
• Traffic Allowance is measured monthly in megabytes
(MB) or gigabytes (GB).
• 50MB Disc Space with 500MB (0.5GB) of TA would be
sufficient for 95% of Irish hosted sites.
Should I choose a .com or a .ie domaina name?
• .com names are the most popular for international
business. Many do not recognised a .ie name.
• .com and .net names are easily recognised and most
frequently displayed in search engine results.
• .com names attract all nation visitors, but if you
only want Irish custom then this will erode your TA
• .ie
names are most useful to identify you as an Irish company
and get mostly Irish visitors.
• For both Irish and International business you may
have both .com and .ie names pointing to your site.
• Website hosting with low priced or free Irish subdomain names like yourname.pro.ie
are available.
The Bottom Line:
• Don't pay for large web space you might never use.
• Don't be fooled by the “Plenty of space to grow into”
approach.
• A web hosting company that puts your interests first
and not their own.
• Remember, the main cost usually comes from lots of
visitors and high email traffic not Disc Space.
• Your hosting costs should grow to fit your business,
as your visitors increase- not the other way round.
• Start thinking of 50MB with an extendable traffic
allowance so the hosting plan can grow with the business.
• Look for inclusive Domain Name and hosting:- look
for yourname.com at about €50 and yourname.ie €100
• Search out the best deal. We recommend, for web
hosting in Ireland, an
excellent €30
50MB hosting.
• We recommend Search Engine Optimisation to lift your
web site to the Google top 10 €350/search
term.
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