Hosting

Did you notice?

Shhhhhh………….

Did you notice?  We’ve more than doubled most of our hosting packages.  Now you get more space, more bandwidth, more features for the same price.

We have also done away with our monthly billing surcharge, so you pay the same monthly fee, no matter what term you choose!

Also, as an added bonus, privacy protection on domain names is now FREE!

There’s never been a better time to start hosting with us.  And, if you refer someone who purchases an annual term, you get a month of hosting FREE!  Want to get MORE free hosting?  Become an affililate and get 10% from every referral for the life of the referred account.

Guess What’s Going On?

The economy is bad.  People are counting their dollars and making tough decisions on what to spend their money on.

At the same time, the face of the web is rapidly changing.  Waaayy back when, web hosting was expensive.  And you didn’t get much for your buck.  I remember the days when domain names were $70 a YEAR!  And hosting was $50 or more per month for 100MB of space and maybe 2GB of bandwidth.

Then came the “Happy Days”.  The days when companies started coming out with cheaper and cheaper domain names. Web Hosting became cheaper and cheaper too, until you were getting huge amounts of space and bandwidth (yes, some claimed to be “unlimited”, read our post on how THAT works).

In the past couple of years, we’ve started to see the pendulum swing back toward the middle.  › Continue reading

The Truth in “Unlimited” From a Hosting Company

Bigger is NOT always better.

Nowadays, hosting companies are going crazy with the amount they claim to offer in their hosting packages.  But it’s all smoke and mirrors.

Unlimited Bandwidth

This is the biggie.  Everyone wants something that’s unlimited, right?  But is it really unlimited?

Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred to and from your website.  This includes files (pages and images) downloaded to viewers’ cache’s, FTPed files up and down, and email in and out, as well as a few other things.

An average site won’t use more than 10GB per month.  That’s enough for 1,000 visitors per day.  A large site with tons of traffic?  Maybe 20GB.  The sites that really use a ton are sites with large files (downloadable content, for example), or sites that have been hijacked for spam (or legitimate spammers), or sites with hundreds of thousands of visitors every day (like microsoft.com).  So the average hosting client does not really NEED unlimited bandwidth. › Continue reading