website Hosting
Hosting and website design go hand and hand, so it makes sense to source hosting services to the same place that built your website. It simplifies your business by giving you a single point of contact for all things related to your website.
We offer our clients a choice between two managed hosting plans, or self hosting. Managed hosting means we do the dirty work, if there is a problem we handle it. Self hosting puts all responsibility in the clients hands. Below is a comparison of our two managed hosting plans.
| Standard | eCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Set Up ($20 value) | FREE | FREE |
| Disk Space | 25 MB | 100 MB |
| Bandwidth | 500 GB | 2000 GB |
| Google Apps (Email) |  |
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| phpBB Forums | |
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| WordPress or Blogger (Blog) | |
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| Joomla or Drupal (CMS) | |
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| Dedicated IP | - | |
| Magento ready | - | |
| Dedicated Secure Certificate | - | |
| Yearly Price | $108/year | $216/year |
| Monthly Price | $10/month | $20/month |
If you opt to handle hosting yourself we do usually recommend going with our host partner. When it comes to hosting providers we have a long standing partnership with the best in the business, WestHost. Their commitment to maintaining a 99.9% uptime standard is backed by industry analysts like Netcraft and CNET, who have ranked them among the top performing web hosting companies. Their servers are supported by a world-class infrastructure engineered from the ground up to support just about any kind of contingency. They've taken the time to ensure that their data center addresses all forms of potential business interruption, from a localized power failure to a major earthquake.
The reason for the recommendation is that we prefer to work with a company we know and trust. We have also ran into issues with other hosting providers not supporting applications or software that we are familiar with, which can cause extra work for us that turns into extra costs for you.
Google Apps
Google continues to create dynamic backends for developers, like ourselves, that allow us to provide reliant, mobile, and easily adaptable applications for our customers to use.
Their applications give us the ability to give you email that can be accessed anywhere from any device, a calendar that can be syndicated and embedded into your website, website statistics that give you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness, and a document and spreadsheet editor that is portable and compatible with most word type applications.
Your email with Gmail
Say goodbye to spam. (Well, most of it anyway.) Gmail blocks spam before it reaches your inbox, and if anything does sneak it's way in you can fight back by reporting it. All mail for your domain is handled by Google Apps, letting you use Google's Gmail service for sending and receiving mail while allowing you to keep your domain branded email address (you@yourdomain.com). Below is a list of additional features that come with your Gmail account:
- 25GB of Storage
- Instant Messaging with Gtalk
- Integrated Calendar
- IMAP, POP and mail forwarding
- Mobile access
Website Statistics with Analytics
Say that three times real fast. Google Analytics provides all kinds of information at your fingertips, including Custom Dashboards, AdWords Integration, e-commerce tracking, website overlays, email reports and even GeoTracking that lets you know where your visitors are coming from.
Think we're going to try to improve on that? Not a chance. We create a new Analytics account for each of our clients so they can better understand how their websites are being used by customers, clients, and/or visitors.