If you want to compete in the workplace, there's no way (even legitimate reason) to get around the fact that you'll need a website. It's highly-effective when it comes to showcasing what your business has to offer, networking with other companies and connecting with an international client base that you wouldn't be able to any other way.

However, whether it's you or a web designer that you're considering contracting to build your site, one of the most important decisions that you can make as it relates to this very issue is choosing the best web host for your website. It may seem like a simple choice, but there are actually several key things that you need to consider beforehand. Here are five of them.

As social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter continue to grow, some people wonder if having (and needing) an email address will soon be a thing of the past. That's not something that we should be too concerned about. Matter of fact, there was a recent article that reported that there are millions of people that are either leaving Facebook or only check their account once or twice a month. These same people probably have an email address, and it's highly doubtful that those individuals will shut down their Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail accounts any time soon. Why? Because if you want to (personally) connect with others in cyberspace, you need an email account to do so.

At one point or another, we all have considered making some sort of investment. Correction: At some point in our lives, all of us_ do_ make investments, whether it's of our time, our efforts or our resources. The thing is, when it comes to making a wise one, we must get all of the information that we can beforehand about how much time, effort, resources, money or capital that we should put into a particular thing in order to gain the kind of return that we seek.

When it comes to topics like how to make cloud migrations work for business, don't feel bad if the first thing that comes to your mind is, "OK, how about someone explain to me what 'cloud migration' is first?"

It's a fair question because technology definitely has its own kind of language (and own kind of people who are fluent speakers of it). In Layman's terms, it's basically taking a part or all of a company's data or services, removing it from the protective barrier of a firewall onsite and making it available on the Internet so that more people can have access to it as needed.