Mac Friendly Hosting – How to Pick a Mac-Friendly Web Hosting Company
December 28, 2008
Mac Friendly Hosting
Are you looking for Mac Friendly Hosting?
- Have you previously had your website hosted on a non-mac-friendly server and you’re tired of the website downtime,difficulty of use, problems with email or administration?
- Do you need to move your website to a mac compatible hosting company or need advice about what mac friendly hosting company to turn to?
After Apple’s announcement to switch from .Mac for hosting to MobileMe, you may be out searching for a new
Mac hosting but haven’t had much luck yet. You’ve probably gone online and searched in Google for ‘Mac friendly web site hosting” and found a few discussion forums, affiliate websites and a handful of companies, but no clear solutions.
What to Look for in Mac Friendly Web Host
There are many hosting companies that will tell you they’re Apple Mac friendly, but make sure you shop around to find a hosting solution that will meet your website’s needs and one that will match your technical abilities, know-how and budget.
- While hosting isn’t necessarily OS dependent, you might consider looking for a hosting company that offers its own mac-friendly website builder and hosting combined in one package.
- If you already have your website designed and you just want to host it somewhere that’s cheap and easy to use on a mac, then you might consider hosting with a mac hosting company that uses cPanel.
- Make sure you pick a host that offers a money back guarantee and around the clock technical support
Should I Choose Free Hosting or Paid Hosting?
December 27, 2008
The old adage “you get what you pay for” is very relevant to the question “should I choose free or paid hosting for my mac website?”
All hosting companies need to make money somehow – they can’t give away hosting for free to everyone or they’ll go out of business. If you choose the free hosting option there will always be a catch. For example,
with free Mac website hosting you may to have unsightly banner ads or pop ups or pop unders on your site, have to pay for other features at a later date, be limited in what you can put on your website (ie maybe you can’t sell products on your site), have to pay waay too much for your domain name, or possibly your free hosting will only be for a short duration as a loss leader to get you to commit to staying with the free hosting company for at least a year.
When searching for a good, affordable, quality mac website hosting company be sure to do your homework. You wouldn’t house your physical business in a seedy neighbourhood just because the monthly rent/lease is free, so why would you consider doing the same thing with your website?
Free mac website hosting companies come and go often since offering free hosting is a pretty unstable business model. If you’re serious about building a website that will actually be around for more than a couple months, be ready to pay for quality service from a reputable Mac hosting company.
If you can get good Mac website hosting that comes with its own mac website builder for the $30-$50 a month range you’re doing well. You could get away with paying $10-$20 a month, but you’ll be limited in the functionality those cheaper hosting companies offer.
Price Ranges of Mac Website Hosting: How Much Does it Cost to Host a Mac Website?
December 22, 2008
Price Ranges of Mac Website Hosting
There are many Mac website hosting companies to choose from ranging from the cheapest mac website hosting companies that are either free or just a few dollars a month (usually requires showing thir party ads on your site) through to the most expensive which can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a month depending on your website hosting needs.
Most Mac users who want to build a basic personal or small business website on their macintosh can get away with paying from $10 to $50 a month depending on the types of website features desired. If you’re building a personal site, try to stay under $30 a month if you can. If you’re building a small business site you can get away with spending around $30 a month but be sure you don’t cheap out and sacrifice the professional look or functionality or ecommerce or email marketing or search engine marketing you’ll need to adequately serve your clients and market your services online effectively.
What is Mac Website Hosting?
December 22, 2008
What is Mac Website Hosting?
Anyone can have a presence on the Internet these days. Building a website on a Mac can be as simple as word processing a few pages of text and adding some photos, but once you’ve created your website on your Mac you need to publish and “host” (or store) it on the Web.
This is where you have to find and pay a website hosting company to store your website, it’s images, words, files etc. Mac website hosting companies rent you space on a server that’s connected to the Internet, allowing the world to view your website.
Most Mac hosting companies offer close to 100% “uptime” meaning that your website will be online almost 24/7 365 days a year. Whether you choose a free Mac hosting company, a cheap or expensive service will likely be based on your needs and budget. No matter what your website needs, or the kind of Mac hosting you choose, every website in the world needs to be hosted somewhere.
