ecommerce web site hosting
In order to make your web site visible on the Internet, you will need to have your site hosted on a web server running Microsoft Windows Server. Depending on your budget, disk space, and bandwidth needs, we can offer you a shared hosting, virtual private hosting or dedicated hosting platform with our Microsoft Certified Web hosting partner.
With a shared hosting account your web site is hosted on a server with potentially hundreds of other sites all sharing the system resources of the server. The upside of shared hosting is the relatively low monthly cost. Plans with our Gold certified hosting partner start at $20 per month for 1000 MB of disk space and 80 GB of monthly bandwidth. If your site requires an SSL certificate, you will also then need to have a static IP address which adds an extra $10 per month to the plan. Shared hosting allows you to not have to worry about creating backups, applying security patches, as well as general maintenance to the server.
The next step up is hosting with a Virtual Private Server. A VPS offers its own independent licensed copy of Windows Server and can be rebooted as needed. The server can be remotely managed via Remote Desktop for the utmost level administration. Although your VPS shares server resources with other VPS’s, it does not allow other VPS’s to steal bandwidth and disk space as each account is allotted a set amound of CPU usage and memory. A Helm control panel is provided to make administration tasks easy. Updates and patches are provided automatically by a certified technician. Monthly plans for a VPS start around $100. This includes a Xeon 2.33 processor, 25 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth. You are also provided with 5 static IP addresses which will handle your email, statistics software, control panel, and web site.
Customers who need the highest level of performance, scalability and features should look to a Dedicated hosting plan. A dedicated server will ensure your web site is the only site on the server for maximum performance and accessibility. Along with your own independent copy of Windows Server, you also get 5 Microsoft SQL server 2005 databases, enterprise data backup service, email, stats service, Helm control panel and monthly maintenance. Depending on the specific needs of your hosting, most plans start at $250 per month.
