{"id":673,"date":"2015-12-02T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rackbank.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:42:59","slug":"5-ways-a-bad-hosting-service-hurts-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rackbank.com\/blog\/5-ways-a-bad-hosting-service-hurts-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways a Bad Hosting Service Hurts Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style: italic; background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 4px solid #0073aa; padding: 15px; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<p><b>TL;DR: Stop Letting Poor Hosting Hold Your Business Back<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slow websites frustrate users and search engines, lowering your SEO rankings and reducing organic traffic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poor performance leads to abandoned carts, higher bounce rates, and direct loss of potential customers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weak security measures put your data, applications, and customer information at risk of breaches and attacks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frequent downtime and sluggish pages damage brand image and erode customer trust in your business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traffic spikes like viral posts can crash poorly hosted websites, turning opportunities into costly setbacks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheap hosting often skips essential backups, monitoring, and infrastructure reliability, increasing long-term risks.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investing in a high-quality hosting provider ensures speed, security, stability, and protects your company\u2019s reputation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">recent survey study\u00a0<\/span>found that 79% of shoppers dissatisfied with website performance are less likely to buy. The survey results assert the correlation between site performance to the revenue the site attracts. Successful online businesses are not built on a shaking ground of bad hosting services; they are carved by the support of some great hosting services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You must have heard about the whopping figure of average cart abandonment rate of 68%, as measured by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><u>Baymard Institute<\/u><\/span>. Customers add products to cart but leave without buying, abandoning the cart; this is referred as Cart abandonment. It is a big challenge in the e-commerce industry. A prominent reason for abandoning cart for customers are slow websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are not an e-commerce business, you might have faced similar issues of high bounce rate or page abandonment. Meaning, a visitor lands on your site and leaves without interacting with the page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the heart of these issues lies a bad hosting service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These problems are very real and can be overcome with the help of a superlative hosting service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Below are five things that will eventually hurt your business if you have subscribed to a sub-par hosting service:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Search engine rankings take a hit:<\/strong>\u00a0 Slow websites not just make life difficult for your users but also for search engine crawlers and bots. A bad hosting service won\u2019t ensure uptime and a frequently down website get lower down in search result rankings. Slow loading site pages do not fare well on rankings. Low SEO ranking further translate into low organic traffic on your site, meaning you will have to spend extra on marketing. It&#8217;s a double-edged sword.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Loss of Potential Business:<\/strong>\u00a0 Have you ever made any purchase from a slow website, I am sure you would think twice but thrice before transacting. The frequent e-shoppers would know the pain of talking to customer support if their bank account is debited, but the products are not yet bought. That\u2019s the kind of fear a slow loading website plants in the minds of prospects and potential customers. A willing buyer turns away dissatisfied by the performance of facilitating element, website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jeopardized Security:<\/strong>\u00a0 The hosting service you bought is the cheapest in the market; you saved a lot on costs of hosting and running a website. Before you pat yourself on back, you should care to read the SLA, check for the undertaken security measures. The chances are that the dirt cheap rates the low-cost hosting service provider offers may be the result of compromises made on some supporting and critical elements that ensure security. For instance, there might not be any <a href=\"https:\/\/rackbank.com\/blog\/why-it-is-important-to-backup-your-data\/#:~:text=Importance%20of%20Backup,time%20and%20energy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>data backup<\/strong><\/a> facility or the hosting server vulnerable to network attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Adverse effect on Brand Image:<\/strong>\u00a0 There are offline businesses that only have informational websites or just corporate blogs. Although this is not considered to be central to business the hosting for such purpose needs to meet good standards for it dictates brand perception. A slow loading website, often inaccessible, does not reflect well on the brand image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A dream becomes Nightmare:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your blog post goes viral on social media, and suddenly there\u2019s an influx of traffic to your site. But that is over the capacity of hosting service, the site becomes slow or goes down. A dream comes true only to go down in memory like a nightmare. Don\u2019t let that happen, do not rely on poor quality hosting services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These are some of the many reasons why not to choose sub-par hosting services. It is common knowledge that a glitchy site turns visitors away, doesn\u2019t look good, is less <\/span>secured<span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Shelling out extra bucks on choosing a good <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rackbank.com\/\">hosting service provider<\/a><\/span> over an inferior one pays off in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: Stop Letting Poor Hosting Hold Your Business Back Slow websites frustrate users and search engines, lowering your SEO rankings and reducing organic traffic Poor performance leads to abandoned carts, higher bounce rates, and direct loss of potential customers. Weak security measures put your data, applications, and customer information at risk of breaches and attacks. 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