Speed, security and easy management are essential requirements for business hosting, yet, when it comes to shared hosting, they are often sadly lacking. UK-based provider, eukhost, however, has developed a market-leading shared hosting solution that flies in the face of tradition. Here, we take a closer look at its fast, secure and feature-packed cPanel Hosting plans and explain why they are ideal for small business websites.
What is cPanel Hosting?
cPanel Hosting is shared hosting that comes with the cPanel control panel. What’s great about this industry-leading tool is that it makes the job of managing a website much easier, making it ideal for small businesses where in-house IT experience is limited and where it is the business owner who often looks after the website.
cPanel features an intuitive, user-friendly interface that makes it easy to use the extensive range of helpful tools that come included. With these tools, even users with limited website experience can carry out a huge range of hosting and website management tasks, including 1-click software installation, setting up automatic updates, adding new domains, managing email accounts, monitoring website and server performance and much more. It even has built-in user assistance providing instant help for those who need it.
Raising the shared hosting bar
Including cPanel in their shared hosting plans is not the only reason to choose eukhost’s cPanel Hosting. The UK’s leading independent hosting provider has also raised the bar when it comes to a wide range of other features. Here’s what you can also expect.
Super-fast performance
Website speed is increasingly important to online success. Today’s internet users have high expectations and little patience and will quickly abandon sites that do not load or respond to their interactions swiftly. At the same time, recent updates to Google’s search algorithm means websites are penalised for slow performance by being downranked in search results, leading to fewer people visiting.
As an entry-level option, shared hosting has never been a high-performance solution. eukhost’s cPanel Hosting, however, turns this tradition on its head, beefing up its hosting with high-speed SSD drives and Intel Xeon based clusters which cut those important loading times to the quick.
Security
Even more important than site speed, security is critical for online businesses who need to protect their websites, data and business interests, as well as comply with data protection regulations and keep customers safe. With cyberattacks against business websites growing in number, variety and sophistication, and cybercriminals making use of third-party ‘as a service’ attacks and advanced, AI-enabled tools, staying secure is a bigger challenge than ever.
eukhost is a provider that takes security seriously and has amassed an arsenal of weaponry to keep attackers at bay. Its cPanel Hosting plans are protected by advanced firewalls that defend servers and websites around the clock from hacking, malware, DDoS and other forms of attack and come with advanced email filtering, free SSL certificates and the ability to restrict access to and password-protect their directories.
The company also offers a range of other optional security services, including VPNs, email signing certificates and for CMS website users (e.g., WordPress), there is the Patchman Security Tool that finds and patches vulnerabilities and removes malware.
Free, daily backups
Of course, even with robust security, things can still go wrong. Employees can be duped into giving away login credentials, giving hackers easy access, and human error can result in entire websites being lost. This often has catastrophic outcomes, with 60% of companies failing within six months of a cyberattack because they are unable to restore their websites and data quickly enough or cannot afford the costs of rebuilding a website from scratch.
Much of this trauma is avoidable if a company backs up its website regularly, as a backup can be used to restore the site and data in a very short space of time. Unfortunately, one of the biggest hurdles to doing this is that backup plans can cost more than the actual shared hosting. eukhost’s priorities, however, are with its customers, so rather than facing additional costs, its cPanel Hosting customers have free daily backups included as standard in their plan. It’s a feature that not only saves money but provides much needed reassurance that if something goes wrong, catastrophe can be avoided.
Guaranteed uptime
Customers and search engines expect today’s websites to be reliable. In other words, they should always be available online. Going offline can damage a company’s reputation, deter visitors from returning and send a website sliding down the search engine results. Any business wanting to avoid such issues should look for a reliable web host that can guarantee high uptime.
While 100% uptime can’t be achieved on shared hosting as the web host may need to temporarily take the server offline to update the operating system or install a vital security patch, eukhost’s cPanel plans come with an excellent guaranteed uptime of 99.9%. They also ensure that if updates or patches need installing, these will take place at the least busy times of day, when the server has the least traffic.
Unmetered bandwidth
Some shared hosting plans have a poor reputation when it comes to bandwidth allocation, with customers who reach their bandwidth limit finding their websites offline until their next accounting period begins or until they pay additional costs for extra. Unfortunately, it is usually successful websites with growing numbers of visitors who find themselves losing out as the more visitors they get, the more bandwidth they use.
One of the great things about eukhost is that customers are not punished for their success. The web host understands that companies can’t afford to go offline, especially when website traffic is on the rise and things are picking up. For this reason, eukhost doesn’t have bandwidth allocations. Instead, it has unmetered bandwidth, which means you won’t go offline or get charged extra if you have a lot of visitors. Provided customers abide by its fair use policy, they can have all the bandwidth they need.
24/7 technical support
Shared hosting customers typically have less technical know-how than the bigger businesses that have dedicated servers and cloud hosting. For this reason, they often need more help when dealing with website and hosting issues. eukhost’s cPanel Hosting plans include free technical support, with hosting experts on hand to help customers with their problems. And as issues can happen unexpectedly at any time, that support is provided 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and is contactable via online chat, telephone, ticket and email.
Free email hosting
The domain name businesses buy for their websites can also be used for creating professional email addresses. It doesn’t make sense, therefore, to have separate hosting accounts for a website and email. Some shared hosting plans, however, don’t come with email hosting included and so companies have to purchase this important service as an addon, often doubling the total cost of hosting.
Not only does email hosting come as standard in eukhost’s cPanel plans; it’s also full of useful features. These include webmail, tasks, contacts, Outlook and other client integration, calendars, email forwarding, autoresponders and spam, phishing and malware filtering.
Conclusion
eukhost’s cPanel Hosting plans have taken the traditional shared hosting model and upgraded it into a service that’s ideal for today’s demanding websites. With the cPanel’s control panel, high-performance hardware and arsenal of defensive tools, it delivers the ease of use, speed and security businesses need. And when all its other features are included, it’s a hosting solution that provides great overall quality and value for money.
For more information, visit eukhost.com/cpanel-web-hosting.
