Going for a summer vacation? Don’t Forget These Web Hosting Tips

A vacation literally means dropping your schedule and taking some time off. But with today’s hyperactive world, even when you’re on vacation, you’re not necessarily on vacation. You may be paranoid about work email or constantly pestered by your coworkers or clients, or even asked to complete some office work when you’re on vacation. This article looks at some important tips to keep in mind when you go on vacation.

Email Auto Responders

This is something that almost everyone does. But many people forget to set up an autoresponder with the proper information. The autoresponder email should be short, to the point, and easy to understand, providing alternate contact information or dates of availability. Many people, due to vacation anxiety, forget to set up an autoresponder and worry about anxious email senders why they haven’t responded to their emails. Another point to keep in mind is to set your answering machine to send a reply to the same sender only once every 12 hours and not to reply to each and every email.

Email filters

Setting up automatic responses isn’t always enough. Sometimes you need to intelligently segregate mail to ensure you keep getting the important ones and delegate the ones that others can handle. Email filters help you automatically redirect emails to colleagues, staff, or even co-workers. You can also set to discard spam so there’s no clutter in your inbox when you return. You can also temporarily unsubscribe from mailing lists, newsletters and journals, which are not very important, so that you can use that extra space to store emails.

disk space

Email is downloaded very infrequently during the holidays, which means your online storage can fill up when you really need it. To avoid this, it’s best to do a web space update before your vacation so you don’t get calls telling you that your emails are bouncing. One of the main advantages of emails is that you can check them at your convenience, but in the meantime they have to be stored somewhere. Storage must be on your hosting account. This means that your space will continue to be used and will eventually fill up if you don’t have enough. You don’t want to be in a situation where you urgently need to empty your mailbox to accommodate some emails, because you ran out of disk space.

Delivery and shipping dates

Ecommerce webmasters should remember that if their office is going to be closed for a few days or weeks, they should review their shipping and delivery dates so their customers know when to expect the products or services they have ordered. Large e-commerce sites will always have enough staff to handle the holiday rush, but small and medium-sized businesses that are left without garages or warehouses may not have enough manpower during the holidays. This means delivery and shipping will be delayed, which your customers should be warned about. Most eCommerce systems allow you to update shipping details in bulk with a single click. You can also add a one line message or banner to your website stating that orders will be subject to delivery delays due to holidays. Although this may not sound very professional, for a large business, smaller businesses or home businesses will benefit.