Hosting: a place your website can call home
Of the six areas, hosting has the least impact on the effectiveness of your website. However, there are several things you should consider to help you choose a website hosting provider and know which of their packages you need. My article "How to Choose a Website Hosting Company" can tell you more about that.
If you already have bought hosting services somewhere, or have a company in mind, we'll be happy to provide our other services in conjunction with that. We also offer you the choice of hosting your website through us, which will streamline the process for you, and save you from having to deal with a separate company.
Our Services
We are a reseller for Hostgator, a well-established company that gets many good customer reviews. The chart below lists the many, many tools and features they include with their hosting accounts. Don't worry if a lot of that doesn't mean anything to you. It's all good stuff! We'll be adding a glossary to tell you more about these features in the future.
Here are the hosting packages we offer:
| Plans | Small | Medium | Large | |
| Disk Space | 50 MB | 200 MB | 500 MB | |
| Bandwidth | 1,000 MB | 5,000 MB | 25,000 MB | |
| Monthly Price | $5.00 | $10.00 | $25.00 | |
| 99.9% uptime | yes | yes | yes | |
| 24/7 support | yes | yes | yes | |
| Daily backups | yes | yes | yes | |
| Free Setup | yes | yes | yes | |
| Domain / FTP Features | ||||
| Domains allowed | 0 | 3 | 10 | |
| Subdomains | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| FTP accounts | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| Supported Features | ||||
| MySQL Databases | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| CGI | yes | yes | yes | |
| PERL | yes | yes | yes | |
| Cron | yes | yes | yes | |
| SSI | yes | yes | yes | |
| Frontpage | yes | yes | yes | |
| Curl | yes | yes | yes | |
| Image Magick | yes | yes | yes | |
| Streaming video and music | yes | yes | yes | |
| GD | yes | yes | yes | |
| Python | yes | yes | yes | |
| PHP | yes | yes | yes | |
| POP3 Accounts | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| Auto responders | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| Mailing Lists | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| Mail Forward | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| Web mail | yes | yes | yes | |
| Catch ALL | yes | yes | yes | |
| Spam Assasin | yes | yes | yes | |
| SMTP | yes | yes | yes | |
| IMAP | yes | yes | yes | |
| Control Panel Features | ||||
| Latest Cpanel | Control Panel Demo Login info: demo / demo | |||
| Fantastico | yes | yes | yes | |
| Hotlink protection | yes | yes | yes | |
| IP Deny manager | yes | yes | yes | |
| Search Engine Submittal | yes | yes | yes | |
| Custom Error Pages | yes | yes | yes | |
| Instant Blogs | yes | yes | yes | |
| Instant Portals | yes | yes | yes | |
| Instant php nuke | yes | yes | yes | |
| Instant Chatroom | yes | yes | yes | |
| Instant Forums | yes | yes | yes | |
| Instant Counter | yes | yes | yes | |
| Web-based FTP | yes | yes | yes | |
| Password-protected folders | yes | yes | yes | |
| phpmyadmin | yes | yes | yes | |
| Statistics | ||||
| Webalizer | yes | yes | yes | |
| Raw Log Access | yes | yes | yes | |
| Referrer Log | yes | yes | yes | |
| Error Log | yes | yes | yes | |
| Analog | yes | yes | yes | |
| E-commerce Features | ||||
| Shared SSL | yes | yes | yes | |
| Private SSL | yes | yes | yes | |
| Agora Shopping Cart | yes | yes | yes | |
| Instant os Commerce | yes | yes | yes | |
| Cube Cart | yes | yes | yes | |
| Purchase Information | ||||
| Plans | Small | Standard | Large | |
| Monthly price | $5.00 | $10.00 | $25.00 | |