On this episode of Bella In Your Business, Bella talks with Javier and Shauna Lee from Geek Ghost, LLC and Tampa Pet Sitters on all things website hosting and Wordpress! Listen in as they dissect:
What is a virtual private server and who needs one?
Biggest mistakes business owners make when web hosting
Why is Wordpress a better alternative than Wix?
Companies to consider hosting your website Shauna & Javier Lee
Back in 2011, two Techs and a graphic designer walked into a bar. The blueprints for what will become GeekGhost were laid out and the Lee's start offering Web Hosting to a few select design clients.
Over the next few years, they expanded to include clients from over 50 countries and across two continents, having launched servers in the EU as well as the US. GeekGhost's objective is to provide Web hosting on par with the bigger providers in terms of reliability and technology while offering a small host feel in terms of support and customer service. Shauna & Javier have been doing this a while and genuinely enjoy what they do. They're happy to help in any way they can!
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Bella:This is episode 66 of Bella in Your Business. Welcome to Bella in Your Business, where Bella will discuss anything and everything about your pet sitting business to help you land on target. So get ready, Bella's got your chute. Let's jump. Welcome to Bella in Your Business. This is Bella Vasta. And today I have a very unique topic for you. I'm so excited, and I think I need to tell you the backstory on this.
So Shauna Lee is actually the owner of Tampa Pet Sitters in Tampa, Florida. She approached me on Facebook one day after one of those threads popped up—you know, those threads where people are just ready to pull their hair out because something happened with their website or their server or their host or their domain. I don’t even understand what all that stuff means. So Shauna reached out to me and said it’s driving her crazy. She sees this happen in all of the groups where people are having a hard time with it, and there’s a lot of misinformation out there.
So Shauna is here with her tech husband. They actually own this company called Geek Ghost, and they’re here to lay it all out and help us understand this whole big thing called websites. Without further ado, welcome, Shauna.
Shauna:Hi, how are you?
Bella:Good! So why don’t you expand on that for me and explain how the pet sitting world met the geek world. How did this start?
Shauna:I actually have a background in web and graphic design, and my husband has been a tech for years. We started the web hosting company together, and our running joke was that he makes everything work and I make it pretty. After a while, it took off, but I got kind of crazy being in front of a computer all day working from home. I’ve always loved animals—I grew up on a farm—and I had a friend who owned a dog walking business. I started working for her just to get out of the house, and it snowballed. I ended up buying the business and growing it to where it is now.
Bella:And that’s what you do daily now while Geek Ghost keeps growing. What drew me to this and made me want to get you on the podcast was when you said you wanted to help educate people and steer them clear of bad experiences or companies that don’t support their users.
So I do want to break it down with you and Javier today. Perhaps we’ll bring him on, and he can get into all the geeky stuff. Maybe you can start and he can finish.
Shauna:Yeah, I wanted to bring him because while I have a good understanding of how this works from my background, when it comes to explaining things, I sometimes have difficulty finding the right words. It makes sense in my head, but he explains it better.
Bella:Perfect. I always equate a website to a house. You have your plot of land, your address, you live in a city and state, and you need security. And with SEO and keeping people on your website,
