Website & email hosting

[Swervin_Mervin]

Totally new to all of this and trying to get my non-tech head around it.

Any advice? Do it via an all-in-one type like Squarespace or are there other options we should be considering?

Bear in mind this will be for a small company of 3-4 fairly tech-illiterate staff in the immediate term so don't need some Beany-level solution to the problem!

Cheers

[Beany]

Totally new to all of this and trying to get my non-tech head around it.

Any advice? Do it via an all-in-one type like Squarespace or are there other options we should be considering?

Bear in mind this will be for a small company of 3-4 fairly tech-illiterate staff in the immediate term so don't need some Beany-level solution to the problem!

Cheers

There's nothing really wrong with something like Squarespace if you really want it simple, but remember that if you need more capacity/better features, they'll likely charge extra.

If you ever get to the stage where you have a freelance designer/web guy doing odds and sods for you and you need more flexibility than what the 'all in one' sites can do, point them at

https://www.bytemark.co.uk/symbiosis/

(it's a raw linux server - with all the flexibility that implies - with lots of scripts and addons to make it far, far easier to manage than a basic linux server - you rarely have to touch the real config files with it)

It does decent hosting, email, https and good security out of the box, is constantly being updated, but is probably too much for what you want now. But it's worth remembering for down the line should you need more options.

[Ascender]

Hosting wise we've been using VIdahost (now Tsohost) for years and they've been brilliant - top notch customer service, good pricing and really, really good technical support.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Cheers chaps. Had a look about and reckon we'll just go with Squarespace for now as it seems relatively cost effective and straightforward, which is great for us at the mo as there are plenty of other things need done in the next 6weeks! Any web page will essentially only be a shop front for us anyway as most business comes to us. So it can be kept fairly simple.