GOOP Digital package much more than just hosting
You get what you pay for! It’s an expression a mate of mine bandies around occasionally when justifying why he’s paid more for something when a cheaper alternative is available. Although he’s generally discussing his latest acquisition, I suspect my mate’s really having a dig at my propensity to haunt reject stores looking for the super cheap version of whatever gadget has taken my fancy and which generally breaks and requires replacement with a more costly but invariably more reliable item.
You get what you pay for!
Whatever the motivation behind my friend’s tendency to launch into old saying and proverbs, I’ve come to the resentful conclusion that he’s right. You get what you pay for! A poor man pays twice! A fool and his money are easily parted!
At least I can take some solace from knowing I haven’t been alone in discovering when something is cheap it’s often because it’s inferior. Website hosting is a prime example of getting what you pay for.
One of the most common questions new and prospective GOOP Digital clients ask our Geelong website development team involves the cost of monthly hosting. We’re asked why we charge what we do for website hosting when one company or another charges less.
We understand why clients ask the question and the answer is quite simple: You get what you pay for! Or, to use another old adage my grandmother used to trot out, you’re not comparing apples with apples.
For many providers, website hosting is a set-and-forget process involving little care, no responsibility and only token support if anything should go wrong.
GOOP Digital, on the other hand, provides a website hosting package that is so far removed from what others offer we don’t even bother calling it hosting. Technical maintenance, support and hosting package is a much more appropriate title for what GOOP Digital’s website development team provides.
We don’t hide it. GOOP Digital’s monthly fee might be a little more than other web developers but here’s some of what you get for that fee:
- Australian-based servers
- 5000MB bandwidth per month
- Up to five POP3 email accounts with 100MB storage per mailbox
- Data storage
- We’ll park extra domain names on your website if required
- We unpark extra domain names if they’re no longer required
- Daily WordPress database back-up on server
- Daily WordPress database back-up off server
- Complete weekly on-server website back-up, including database, media library and plug-in file
- Complete weekly off-server website back-up, including database, media library and plug-in files
- Website/database restoration from back-up
- WordPress core updates
- WordPress plug-in updates
- WordPress DIY content updates
- WordPress editing instructions, image editing and resizing instructions
- PDF compression instructions
- Social media image templates
- Google Analytics instructions
- New page creation
- Client-supplied content added to new pages
- Ongoing SEO monitoring
- We answer the phone when you need help or guidance.
It’s a hell of a list and when you consider that your website’s WordPress CMS and plug-ins alone require updating many times a month, you start to realise that what GOOP Digital provides is one hell of a service.
So, if you’re looking for a new website and considering GOOP Digital’s website development team in Geelong but wondering about our monthly fee compared with other website developers and hosting companies, remember you’re not comparing apples with apples and you get what you pay for!