There’s storage to think about, monthly bandwidth, domain registration, e-mail, databases, online applications and scripts, website builders and much more.

Here at LetsHost we pride ourselves on having some of the best web hosting support in the business… but what about supporting people who aren’t yet LetsHost customers?

We decided it was time to take the pain out of choosing the perfect Irish web hosting plan.

Just click on the banner, answer a few simple questions about what you want from your Irish web hosting plan, fill in your contact details and one of our friendly team of web hosting experts will get in touch via your preferred contact method (phone or e-mail) for a chat.

They’ll talk you through everything, and once they have a clear idea of exactly what you need, they’ll advise you on the ideal hosting solution for your needs.

LetsHost offers a wide range of hosting and domain management solutions specifically tailored to deliver outstanding value and performance to Irish website owners. From shared hosting for home users and hobbyists to high-performance dedicated servers for large business clients and high-volume e-commerce systems, we have all your Irish hosting needs covered.

So click on the banner, and let us help you pick the ideal Irish hosting solution today!

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Building and maintaining a website can be a pretty daunting prospect for small business owners.

Most of us don’t know HTML, and have neither the time or the inclination to learn it. So we go to a professional web designer to have our site built for us.

But we don’t really want to call on a web designer every time we want to update or add to the content on our website. We need a system that makes managing our web content less technical.

Enter WordPress… a popular, easy to use blogging and web content management platform that makes maintaining the information on your small business website as simple as editing a word-processor document.

Five reasons why WordPress is a good choice for your small business website:

• WordPress is completely free: that’s right, although it’s one of the world’s most popular and easy to use content management platforms, WordPress is open source, which means it’s free to download and install, and you and your web designer are free to tweak and modify it in any way you want.

• WordPress is easy to set up: in fact, you can install WordPress automatically in just a few clicks from the Fantastico software library in your LetsHost Complete Irish web hosting control panel.
• WordPress gives you control over your content: updating and maintaining content with WordPress is a doddle: your information stays current and up-to-date without having to go through a web designer every time.
• WordPress is Search Engine Friendly: by default WordPress, which was originally designed as a blogging platform, delivers reasonable search engine optimisation right “out of the box”. With a few tweaks it can deliver class leading SEO to help your great content float to the top of search results.
• WordPress is easy to customise: changing the look and feel of your WordPress powered website is as easy as slotting in a new template or “theme”. Your web designer can create a new WordPress theme for you, or you can choose from thousands of free and paid WordPress themes and customise them for your own use.
• WordPress is easy to extend: because it’s open source, there’s a vast community of software developers out there working on WordPress Plugins — extensions that add functionality to the core software platform. Many WordPress plugins are free, or cost very little, and allow you to add advanced functionality like shopping carts, forums, social bookmarking and much more to your WordPress powered site with just a few clicks.

There are lots more reasons to give WordPress a whirl for your small business website – why not head on over to the WordPress website and take a look for yourself.

If you’re looking for the perfect WordPress Hosting Solution for your Irish business take a look at our LetsHost Comlete Shared Hosting plan… it has everything you need and boasts class-leading features at a price that’s hard to beat.

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Here at LetsHost we’re always keen to hear from our Web Hosting customers.

We work hard to offer one of the best web hosting deals in Ireland, with a great blend of features, space and bandwidth at what we consider to be great value. But more than that, we strive to make the experience of hosting your website with us an enjoyable and productive one.

We want to hear from you

Your feedback is very important to us. It helps us to fine tune our service to fit your needs.

We love to hear your success stories: how well your website is doing, and how your LetsHost hosting account is helping you to get great online results for your business. But equally we want to know where you think we could do things a bit better, so that we can keep improving.

One of the main reason’s we started this blog, and the LetsHost Twitter Account was to listen to what you have to say, and to make information and advice about your hosting account that much more accessible.

On the blog we’re aiming to deliver valuable content on web hosting, web design, and online marketing that will help you make the most of your LetsHost hosting account. We’re picking article topics that we feel are relevant to you, but the whole point of a blog is that its a two-way-street. You can tell us what you think through its built in comment system.

What hosting and / or website related topics do you want to read about? Drop us a line with your suggestions / questions in the comments below, and we’ll address them in future posts. Let us know what you’d like to see happening on the blog.

We’re looking forward to your input.

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Choosing the right web hosting partner can be crucial to the success of your online business… but with so much choice in today’s Web Hosting market where do you start?

Right here, that’s where!

To help you make sense of the web hosting conundrum we’ve put together the LetsHost web host selection guide.

• Choose a host in the country where your primary target market lives: this is important, because search engines deliver local search results to users based on the geographical location of the server on which the web pages reside (which they can infer from the server ip address)
• Make sure the host is reliable: do they offer guaranteed uptime / levels of service? Many hosts publish live server statistics that demonstrate the reliability of their services. You should expect a service level approaching 100% from a high quality hosting service.
• What sort of support do they offer: make sure the hosting you choose includes efficient and effective support 24/7. If your website goes down you need to be confident you can call on your host for assistance whatever time of the day or night.
• Backup and disaster recovery: if the worst happens and the server goes belly up, what sort of disaster recovery options does the host have in place? Ideally your host should take several daily snapshots of your entire account / server, allowing them to restore it and get your site back up and running as quickly as possible should the worst happen.
• What do others think: find out what other customers think. Read testimonials, and search for discussions on webmaster forums relating to the hosts your considering. Are other people’s experiences good or bad? Post a few questions.
• Shop around: hosting is an incredibly competitive industry, so shop around for the best deal – but bear in mind that the cheapest option isn’t always the best choice.

We believe that LetsHost offers the best balance of hosting features, reliability, support and value for money available in Ireland today. But don’t take our word for it… apply the checklist above and decide for yourself.