Faq's
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! A website is a valuable asset which helps give businesses the opportunities to reach a wider audience, sell online and increase sales, showcase and promote a brand and many additional benefits.
Yes we can, as part of our website redesign service. Keep your domain name and when your new website is up and running with us, you simply cancel your old website hosting.
Yes, all of our websites are smartphone and tablet-friendly and standard with our website development service.
There are two main ongoing costs to keep your website live on the Internet:
- Hosting: Every website needs to have it’s files stored on a secure server to be accessible to the Internet. Without it, your website would not exist. After the first two months of free hosting with Small Business Web Designs, there is a monthly fee for hosting, website self-management and ongoing support. It often works out cheaper to go with our self-management service than to pay a web designer every time you need to make updates.
- Domain Name Renewal: Each year, your domain name will require renewal. If we purchased this on your behalf, we will simply renew it for you at cost each year ($45 for 12 months).
SSL Certificates are data files that digitally bind in a cryptographic key. There are two types of certificates: 1) Free and 2) Paid.
Here are some points of difference between free and paid SSL:
Free SSL Paid SSL
Free SSL certificates are issued for one month to three months. Paid certificates are mostly issued for a longer period, like 1 or 2 years.
They are mostly ‘Self-Signed Certificates’ as you don’t need authority to sign them. It is issued and signed by a trusted authority.
If you need help when facing problems with free SSL, you need to do google and check various forum posts. The certificate authorities and resellers of paid certificates are bound to provide 24/7 support.
Certainly. A large number of our clients are from the mortgage and insurance broking industries, but we also have many specialist consulting firms. We create industry specific content if required and also manage all social media campaigns.
There are many web hosting services provided by hosting companies. Here are four types that are widely purchased by website owners.
Shared Hosting: In a shared hosting plan, you share the server with other website owners. That means you are sharing your physical server as well as some software applications.
This type of shared plan does come with some tradeoffs. On the other hand, they are designed to be as user friendly as possible. Many hosting providers offer one-click installation for popular scripts and content management systems so that you can get your site up and running quickly.
VPS Hosting: It is ideal for people who need more than a shared plan but still does not require a dedicated server because of a tighter budget. VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. This means it is your server, but virtually there are more VPS’s on a single machine. You can have the best VPS hosting in Singapore if you want to learn server management.
They offer greater control because the server is partitioned fairly. The resources are allocated individually, guaranteeing a certain level of performance.
It is also known as virtual private servers. They act as a single server that you have complete control of. You can adjust your web hosting service through the provider’s control panel to customize the way your visitors experience your site.
Dedicated Hosting: Dedicated hosting is a private hosting plan where you will get the complete web server. Here, you are neither sharing your server nor resources. However, your purchase hosting cost will be high.
Collocated Hosting: In this type of hosting service, you buy your server but locate the server on the hosting provider’s premises. You will be completely responsible for your server. In these hosting plans, you also get full control and access rights.
Cloud Hosting: Cloud hosting allows you to increase/decrease server resources based on traffic automatically. The billing is done on a per hour basis, and there is no fixed cost involved. It is the most in-demand hosting type for web apps currently in the market, as developers do not need to worry about their hosting infrastructure. The term cloud is derived from the network diagram, where a cloud symbol denotes network infrastructure.
Managed WordPress hosting:
Managed WordPress hosting is a hosting services for people who want to build their sites on the back of the popular WordPress content management system (CMS) from WordPress.org. Management WordPress hosting providers know the CMS in and out so they can easily troubleshoot your WordPress problems.
Yes, you can. However, you must know the following things:
• You should know about setting up a server and install the platform/CMS that you want to use on your website.
• Neither your system nor your internet can go down. Otherwise, your site will not be accessible.
The cost of web hosting depends upon hosting needs and cost that you want to spend. Typically, almost all good hosting plans are available at a lesser per month price. However, you should consider introductory pricing offers provided by cheapest web hosting Singapore companies to start your web hosting.
cPanel is a famous Web hosting control panel. It enables website owners to efficiently manage the website from a web-based interface in a single dashboard. There are many cPanel alternatves like Plesk, InterWorx, OviPanel, etc., but provides using cPanel are sometimes referred to as cPanel web hosting.