May 18, 2020
To a business owner, website hosting can seem like any other utility service. Your office needs electricity, heating and cooling, a water supply, website hosting… It’s just another line item on the monthly expense sheet. But there’s a huge difference. As the coronavirus pandemic has shown, your office can be shut tight -- lights out, thermostat set at 55, no running water -- and you can stay in business indefinitely. But if your web service goes down for as little as 24 hours, the effect on your business could be catastrophic. Even if your website is merely slow, or you experience occasional downtime, or a hacker exploits a security vulnerability you didn’t know about, your business is at a serious disadvantage.