Hosting decisions, made simpler

Your website has a job to do. Give it the right hosting.

Whether you're launching a business website or looking at hosting for a healthcare-related operation, start with what your site actually needs—not a wall of technical jargon.

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Choose your path

Two hosting needs. Different questions to resolve.

A standard business website and a site that handles regulated health information don't necessarily require the same services or safeguards. Begin with the work your website needs to perform.

Business & everyday website hosting

For company websites, blogs, portfolios and other ordinary online operations.

  • Can visitors reach the site reliably?
  • Does the platform support your publishing tools?
  • Are backup, security, support and renewals clear?
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Healthcare & HIPAA-oriented hosting

For organizations evaluating infrastructure for systems that may involve protected health information.

  • Clarify what information the website will handle.
  • Ask about business associate agreements and the provider's responsibilities.
  • Confirm your own configuration, policies and procedures.
Ask about HIPAA hosting
Important for healthcare: A hosting product alone does not make an organization HIPAA compliant. Confirm the scope of services, agreements and safeguards with the provider and your compliance advisers.
A practical starting point

Pick hosting by what must work.

Useful hosting guidance starts with the site's purpose, the information it handles, and how the owner will operate it.

01 / PURPOSE

Define what the site does

Information site, content publishing, customer inquiries, online transactions, or regulated workflows?

02 / REQUIREMENTS

Identify the essentials

Publishing platform, storage, reliability, recovery, data-handling requirements and service support.

03 / DECISION

Check the offer

Ask the hosting provider about the exact needs you identified, costs, terms and safeguards.

Answers worth publishing—not just more pages

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