If you’ve ever asked yourself, “How do people make websites?” — the answer, more often than not, is WordPress. WordPress is a free tool that lets you build and manage a website without needing to know how to code. It’s like the engine behind the website, helping you control what your site looks like, what it says, and how it works.
At its core, WordPress is software that helps you create and update pages, add pictures, publish blogs, run contact forms, sell products, and more — all from a simple dashboard. It started as a blogging platform but has become one of the most popular ways to build almost any kind of website, from basic one-pagers to full online stores.
WordPress powers over 40% of all websites in the world. Why? Because it’s:
Let’s say you own a small bakery. With WordPress, you can:
Everything is managed through an admin area called the Dashboard. If you’ve used email or Microsoft Word, you’ll find it familiar and easy to use.
At IDS Hosting and IDS WebDesign, we build most of our content-managed websites with WordPress. Here’s why:
If you want a website that’s affordable, easy to manage, and built to grow with your needs, WordPress is a smart choice. And we can help. Our team designs and builds WordPress sites that are clean, modern, and simple to use — whether you're starting from scratch or refreshing an old site.
WordPress gives you control. IDS WebDesign makes it simple.
Shared Hosting in today's world is a completely different 'animal' to what is was a few years back. Many in the industry who hear of this type of hosting today still believes it to be inferior. It might have been before, but with the advance made in server power, lowering machine cost, greatly improved software and security measure, shared hosting has become stable, reliable and amazingly cost effective.
Although Shared Hosting in our opinion can be used in most website applications, it's not suitable for every occasion and script. it is used mostly for entry level projects, but can and is used for some very large sites and applications.
If you look at a scenario of an entry level website and email facility from a new business, especially an online business not so much a brochure type website facility. At some point if the online business keeps growing the website, database and email server will require more power, more memory, space, custom server settings, dedicated IPs, higher levels of security, and dedicated server or larger VPS infrastructure will be needed. Quite often the hosting provider might approach the online business to say that the shared environment is not going to be so effective and a better solution can be found.
For the business that' just showcases its products online with a contact form etc, this scenario can remain comfortable on a shared hosting environment for its entire lifetime and operate at its most efficient without a dedicated solution.
Shared Hosting is also scalable which allows for growth. Need more space, its usually just a case of upgrading to a larger package or subscribing to more space on the same hosting package. IDS Hosting offers an overage facility which allows for growth in space usage, over and above the subscribed capacity.
For Business Entrepreneurs serious about managing risk and staying online no matter the odds, we recommend the Business Hosting Package. Based on a shared environment initially. it's a one stop get it all no matter what's needed. A bolt on approach with easy to set up and configure to what's required at the time, as the business conditions change so the facility is tweaked to s new level.
