Hosting

In general, we offer a wide range of web services aimed at presenting your web presence in the most effective way possible. If you are technically inclined, we provide you with a set of services that should meet your needs. If on the other hand you are williing to maintain the content of your web site, we typically handle most of the backend maintainance oriented details.

A short list of the features you will most likely like to use are as follows:

• create email accounts and email aliases, redirect email
• create sub domains and host multiple domains at one account
• create and manage databases
• install a wide variety of third party programs that operate on your web site including Joomla which we prefer to use for presenting a web site.
• access a variety of reporting about your site

You have available for your use an application called SPanel to manage your web site environment - the apps and systems behind the current that keep your web site running. Through this program you can utilize all of the typical services and background applications available on any web server. In general we find it more practical to manage most of your SPanel requirements outselves and relieve you of the burden and minutie but you are wlcome to do so yourself. 

If you want to actively manage these aspects of your account you will want to reference the documentation on SPanel.

We use Linux servers and offer a multitude of options and features that are standard on web servers. The price that applies to your web service is based exclusively on the amount of storage you use. We will assist you with the initial setup of your site but any web site design or content services are billed as development costs.  There are no setup fees with any plan.

While you can operate a wide variety of web applications, we generally partner with our customers in managing their website using the application Joomla. If you have an existing web site and don't want to completely replicate it on our server, we can provide conversion services to recreate it using Joomla. Joomla is in a class of applications that is very accessible to computer literate individuals who are not web developers but supports sophisticated applications and solutions when necessary. Go here for more information about Joomla. You should also note that in general we can maintain all of the update of your Joomla installed software, relieving you of that task.

Why don't we offer unlimited storage?

Because there is no such thing.  Companies that offer unlimited storage and bandwidth don't expect you to use unlimited amounts and the restrictions that they place on what you can do on your web site effectively insures that you won't test the limits of their offers.  For a full discussion with citations from several companies offering "unlimited" features but with severe restrictions.

We've had the experience of dealing with mass hosting plans and while they have their place, we are not in the business of providing an impersonal service that works fine until you have some requirement that doesn't fit into their pre-designed cookie cutter model.