Web Hosting in Scottsdale, AZ

A market where the pictures are the product

In a lot of towns a business website is a phone number with some words around it. Here it is closer to a showroom. People book a treatment, a stay or a celebration off the strength of what they saw on a screen, often before they speak to anybody. The photography is not decoration. It is the pitch.

Which puts the site in an awkward position. The images have to look expensive, and expensive-looking images are large. Load them the way most sites do and the page takes so long that the visitor leaves before the first one appears. You lose the booking to the slowness of the thing that was meant to win it.

How to have both

This is a solved problem, and it does not involve making the photographs worse. It involves not shipping a print-resolution file to a phone.

• Resize before uploading. A photo straight off a camera can be twenty times bigger than the page needs. Nobody can see the difference. Everybody can feel the wait.
• Save modern formats. The same picture in a current web format is often a third of the size at the same visible quality.
• Load galleries lazily, so the images further down the page wait until somebody scrolls toward them.
• Let the first screen be one strong image, not six. A carousel loads every slide whether or not anyone looks at it.
• Give every image fixed dimensions so the page does not jump around while it loads. That jumping reads as cheap.

Test on a phone on mobile data, standing outside. That is the real condition. Office wifi flatters every site ever built.

Why a Buffalo company, for a Scottsdale business

It is the obvious objection and it deserves a straight answer rather than a slogan.

Hosting is not a local service. Your website does not live in Scottsdale today and it will not afterwards. It lives in a data centre somewhere, and which state that building sits in makes no difference a visitor in Arizona could ever notice. Distance across the country costs milliseconds. Your homepage is losing whole seconds to its own images.

So the thing you are actually choosing is who answers when something breaks, and that has nothing to do with geography. We are in Buffalo, we work Eastern time, and we have built and looked after websites since 1999. Arizona does not change its clocks, so for part of the year we are two hours ahead of you and for the rest we are three. In practice that means we are already working when you start, and we answer email before that.

If what you want is somebody who will walk into your building, we are the wrong choice and we will tell you so. For setting up hosting, moving an existing site and keeping the email running through the change, being in another state changes nothing at all.

The genuinely local piece is your Google Business Profile, and it is free. Get that right before you spend anything on hosting.

What a business here usually overpays for

This is the part most hosting companies leave out, so here it is plainly. In an affluent market the reflex is to buy the larger option, and for hosting that reflex is usually wrong.

• A large plan for a small site. Most business websites are a handful of pages that change occasionally. Shared hosting handles that comfortably.
• Extra storage, when the real problem is forty photographs that were never resized. Fix the photographs and the storage question disappears.
• A security product that duplicates something already included. Ask what the plan covers before adding anything on top.
• A website builder subscription for a site nobody has edited in two years.
• A separate service to send the contact form, when your existing mail can already do it.

Spending more is genuinely worth it in a few cases. If the site takes deposits or payments. If it runs your booking rather than linking out to somebody else's. If it carries a very large media library that keeps growing. If a morning of downtime costs you real appointments. Visitor numbers alone almost never justify it.

If you want the whole picture including the parts that are not hosting, what a website costs to run lays it out. Current pricing for the plans themselves is on the hosting page.