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Our website host servers are based in New Zealand and offer superior speeds and service than international shared options. A case study below demonstrates the importance and advantage of using professional high-speed hosting.
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Entry Level
A low cost option for those entry level business with a website with few pages and little graphics.
Silver host
Our standard host account used for most business websites. This is the account we normally start our customers on.
Gold host
Hosting that allows for increased bandwidth for those larger websites with higher resources or customer visits.
Nothing kills a web sites appeal more than slow load times.
Search engines such as Google use website load times as a key factor in determining which websites have greater appeal than others. Naturally, faster websites provide greater appeal to customers and therefore higher search-engine results.
... It is significant.
CASE STUDY
Professional Vs. Budget Website Hosting
We get the odd customer mentioning that they could find hosting at lower prices, $100 per year, asking why we charge more. Our response is always that you get what you pay for and that we only place our customers' websites on host accounts that perform.
The issue was, we never had any figures to support our statements, so we decided to run our own tests to illustrate some differences. Following is a discussion of a case study that investigates the differences between our hosting and cheaper international hosting.
THE MEASURE :- Website load speed
To test the website load speed we selected Melbournes Pingdom web speed test service.
There is a delay between sending information back and forwards between New Zealand and Australia so using a test suite based in Australia would (when comparing) give an advantage to the Australian (International) based budget host provider, and a disadvantage to our New Zealand based servers.
The test results show the website was well constructed and configured with a performance grade of 90, and a load time of 2.76 seconds, 57% faster than other websites tested on the test suite.
Not bad I guess, however it is common knowledge that websites must load in around 2 second, and if the load time is over 3 seconds then your potential customer will leave your website - not so good...
We knew our host servers were fast however the results show a huge difference. Remember these servers are based in New Zealand so have an intrinsic delay when measuring website load speeds from Australia.
The website loads in 0.865 seconds - almost 320% faster than the same website running on a budget host in Australia! and more importantly, loading in well under the golden 2 seconds time frame.
91% faster than other websites tested on the test suite.
