Hosting Services

Once your website has been designed, you will need t find a host for it. A host is simply a company which provides space on a web server for your website, permitting the rest of the world to see it.

We offer hosting services for every website we design, using dedicated servers located in a data center with multiple, redundant connections to the internet, so that your website will experience almost no downtime (just a few late-night minutes per month for maintenance). If your needs require 100% guaranteed uptime, we can provide that as well at additional cost by locating your site on more than one server.

E-mail Services

We offer e-mail for all sites hosted with us. Your e-mail service includes an unlimited number of e-mail addresses. We also provide a web-based e-mail interface where you can add additional addresses yourself, set up auto-reply messages, manage anti-virus settings and more. With your own domain name, your e-mail addresses can be anything you like, such as your_name@your_website.com. In addition, you can use the web-based mail interface to access your e-mail from any computer in the world, similar to a Hotmail account.

Site Statistics

Your web site comes with full website statistics so that you can see how much traffic you have, where they are going, where they came from, what search engine terms they used to find you, and even who is on your site in real time. Click here for a full list of features.

FTP

With hosting you will also have access to FTP services, which allows you to upload files to your website. You can then provide links to those files from your web pages so that others can download the files. You can provide files that anyone can download, or files in hidden or password-protected areas that are accessible only by you or people you specifically designate. Items such as marketing brochures, Word documents or Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and more can be uploaded to your website and made available to whoever you choose.

Backup

Our servers are backed up each day to separate computers, ensuring that your content and information remains secure.

Databases

In many cases, websites are connected to databases to provide additional functionality for both website owners and visitors alike. Databases can be used in e-commerce sites, to manage photo galleries, to handle blog posts, to manage lists of users and passwords, and much more.

Secure Pages

We can set up secure, encrypted pages for any website. Certificates are available from Godaddy.com, and can be installed on our server quickly and easily. A secure certificate provides encrypted transmissions between your website and your visitors, so that they can be assured that any personal or financial information they provide you (on an e-commerce site, for instance) will be protected. The encryption is industry-standard, recognized by all browsers, and operates completely in the background - once installed on the server, no further steps need to be taken.

Google Site Maps

Google Sitemaps is a program initiated by Google to have web site owners inform Google about the web page in your site that you want to include in their index. While Google makes no claim that offering a Sitemap will guarantee your inclusion or improve your rankings with them, having a Sitemap is generally considered an integral part of a search engine optimization strategy. Our servers are set up to automatically provide Google with an up-to-date Sitemap each and every time their servers visit your website.