Fast web hosting makes all the difference to visitor retention and our dedicated hosting can help your website achieve significant a speed increase over your competitor’s website.

The animation below illustrates the difference between routeToWeb’s dedicated server and a VPS from a budget hosting provider. They are actual times recorded in November 2020 for the home page load time when the website was transferred. Scroll down and select the started button to view the difference.

Did you know that 47% of customers expect a page to load in less than 2 seconds or less?

40% of people abandon a website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load?

And a 1-second delay in page response, can result in a 7% reduction in conversions!

How do I start to get a faster website?

It is like building a house, start with a firm foundation. A good solid web server will help deliver your site to you visitors in the shortest possible time.

Who and what benefits from a quick website?

For several years Google has use the speed of your website as part of its ranking algorithm, the faster the better, so it plays an important part in your site’s SEO. But it’s probably more important for your visitors and helps keep them on the site, as nobody likes a slow site. The figures listed above show how important speed is to retain these website visitors and how important it is for website load quickly. However, it is not all down to the server, there are numerous other factors that control the speed, but if the foundations powering the site are not up to speed the rest pales into insignificance.

What else can I improve my website’s speed?

Websites should be optimised to give the fullest experience to the visitor as possible. Image size and the file format used for the images plays a part. JPEGs are often best for photographs and GIFs work well with line art and small animations. PNGs can be good for both and offer a good transparency option, however they often produce a larger file size. The latest WebP format combines the best of the rest and generally creates a smaller file size.
Other techniques involve minifying some parts of the code, such as advanced caching techniques and using data compression while delivering the content.
routeToWeb can help you with this too.

	Website Builders	Budget Hosting	Our Hosting
Cost	Low cost.	Beware of the introductory offers leading to dearer hosting later on.	Affordable see table below.
Power	Less powerful than WordPress and other established CMSs.	Easy to install popular website software such as WordPress & Joomla!	A fully dedicated server, optimised to deliver your website in the shortest possible time.
Development	Visual page builders – easy to edit but not always flexible.	Install themes or use the default themes, but you still need to configure them.	We do most of the design and development and can guide you through adding and editing content if that’s the route you wish to take.
Hosting	Shared hosting with many many more websites which limits resources and impacts on the speed.	Shared virtual private servers. The server resources are shared across each VPS, which then shares its resources across each website it hosts.	Dedicated and fast. We know each and every website that is hosted. Secured by a dedicated firewall.
Functionality	Limited to what’s provided with no way of adding other functionality within the website.	Can be limited to the default and inflexible plugins.	Stand out from the crowd with our optional bespoke design and development.
SEO	You need to know what is needed and be prepared to do the work, that is if you can get to the parts that you need to edit.	With the knowledge, time and the correct plugins you can do this yourself.	We can help, advise and set the in-page SEO elements. We also work with established SEO partners to work with you to help you climb the ranking ladder.
Knowledge required	Google is your friend.	You or your designer can do the work.	We have the knowledge and will help you when needed.
Not working? Who do you call?	Google is your friend or their support.	Google is your friend or their support.	No technical knowledge required as that our job!
Backups	Varies between suppliers.	Your responsibility.	Daily.
Migrate a website	Generally bespoke systems with no way to migrate and existing website.	Yes, but it’s most likely down to you to do it and master the configuration, database, DNS, FTP and so on.	Yes, we handle it all. Migrate the database, migrate the website and we can even migrate emails with sufficient access to the old server.
Where hosted	Generally not in the UK.	Anywhere.	In the UK, which helps with GDPR compliance.

Monthly Hosting Fee
	GB disk Quota	FTP accounts	Email accounts	Databases	Sub domains	Cost*
Starter	3	2	5	2	2	£14.99
Standard	7.5	2	5	2	5	£16.99
Pro	15	3	7	3	5	£23.99
Beyond Pro	40	5	10	5	5	£32.99
Email only	20	–	1	–	–	£7.95

* + VAT at the current rate

Migration fees start at £240.00 for a typical WordPress website migration to our server. Non-WordPress sites with complicated functionality and bespoke server interaction by quote.

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