You may well be aware of our email hosting service that has been a large part of our business for some time, but until recently we’ve never really spent any time on hosting Web sites for bloggers and small businesses.

We never anticipated getting into hosting sites in a big way, but over our first year we added a couple of sites to our systems and it’s grown from there pretty quickly.

Now, we’re looking to continue expanding this service, so if there’s anyone you know who has their own Web site, or would like to have one, please do have them speak with us.

We can host just about any site you need, but today I wanted to focus on WordPress hosting.

WordPress is often seen as the bloggers choice of web hosting, because that’s originally what it was created for. But over the years of development since its 2003 launch, more and more features have been added, turning it into a full solution for personal and business Web sites.

Now WordPress is a fully fledged Content Management System (CMS) that is perfect for individuals and small/medium businesses to create a unique Web site that they can continue to add to really easily over time. Our site is based on WordPress (we’re working on a revised version which we hope to reveal in the summer), and adding blog posts like this are as easy as pie (other than thinking of the words….).

Of course there are other places you can host WordPress (even with the developers of the system), but what you won’t get is the personal support CHNO offer.

We can be as proactive as you need. For instance, we’re working with one client right now who has a good idea how they want their Web site to look, but has no idea how to go about it. We showed the client some ‘themes’ (professional templates for the look of your site, which start at around £50) from which they selected their preferred choice, and then worked with them to populate the site in the manner they desired. We’re still working towards a finish on that site, but even with a bit more work to do, it’ll end up costing the client a heck of a lot less than a custom designed site would have done.

Other clients may be happy with a server with a base copy of WordPress installed so they can go ahead and develop their site from scratch. We can do that as well.

We also have clients that have basic HTML web sites that they previously hosted with larger, less personal providers. Given the lack of support they were getting, they decided to move their existing sites to us (with a view to redevelopment in WordPress later), and we managed the whole moving process for them, something they would have struggled with therefore holding them to their existing provider.

We even let you have the first month of WordPress hosting for free! After that our prices are based on the amount of storage you use (the size of your site), and the bandwidth you utilise (the amount of web traffic you generate), but our monthly costs start at £5 (inc VAT) per month. For clients with multiple sites they need hosting, we can usually give them better pricing based on their needs.

If you are interested in selling online, there are some very good add ons to WordPress that provide a shop experience on your site, starting at……….no cost whatsoever! You can add SSL encryption for security and a safe shopping experience for your client from just £7.50 (inc VAT) per month (annual rates also available).

So if you or anyone else you know has a site they’re looking to move or redevelop, or needs a site to start, please do get in touch using the usual methods.