Given the advances, not just in technology, but in what modern-day internet users expect when they visit a website, the services that a web hosting company offer should be more than just hosting. Simply offering website owners a place to host their website does not cut it and a hosting company that thinks that way is not going to be around for very long.

Web hosting companies worth using should be able to offer clients several additional options and add-ons that enhance how the websites that it hosts perform, and which provide enhanced services for the owners of those websites. Below we have outlined 7 services that we believe every web hosting company should offer or provide to its clients.

Website Builder

Many businesses arrange for web hosting before they even have a website but plan to create one. This is where web hosting companies that provide website builders have an advantage. Most website builders will have free templates which makes the task of creating a website easier.

Web Design

Sticking with the subject of creating websites, some of the better web hosting companies take it a stage further by offering web design services. This goes beyond the business shaving to build their website themselves and instead the hosting company’s web designers do it for them. A big advantage of this will be that the web design will be optimised for the hosting service and thus increase its performance and reliability.

Domain Name

Whilst the cost of purchasing a domain is not exactly going to break the bank, we feel it is always positive if a hosting company offers a free domain name to new customers. This way setting up nameservers, for example, is simplified and the domain goes live sooner.