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Shared Web Hosting Plans

Our Shared Hosting Plans include Do-It-Yourself web design tools. If you require a custom-built website, please see our Professional Website Design Services instead.

Our Shared Web Hosting Plans offer easy-to-manage solutions for your Small Business Needs, and include the tools you need to set up your online presence, including a free website generator and online marketing tools.

If you are new to the world of shared hosting, a Basic plan is the perfect start. You’ll get plenty of resources for a small website including email. If you anticipate higher traffic, we recommend the Enhanced web hosting plan and if you want to add an ecommerce shopping cart, or your business requires more resources to support lots of graphics, or a high traffic website then we recommend the Premium shared web hosting plan.

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Choose one of our three Shared Web Hosting plans on the Unix platform (Windows platform also available) to support multi-media and Flash, setup a blog, or just get reliable resources for your website. You can design your site with one of hundreds of templates from the EasySite Website Generator, our free web design software that comes with all of our Shared Website Hosting plans. Prepare your site for Search Engines and get more visitors with our free online marketing tools. See the “Add-Ons” tab below for even more SEO power! Our Shared Web Hosting plans also support eCommerce, allowing you to set up an online store and sell your products online. Please see our eCommerce DIY Beginner section for more information. All our shared web hosting plans include our 99.9% uptime guarantee.
 

Basic Hosting

The simplest way to set up your website

  • Typical use: For websites up to 25 pages that receive less than 100 visitors a day
  • Design a basic website for free
  • Featuring NEW SEO and Local Search Tools
  • Unix or Windows platform
  • 99.9% Uptime Guaranteed
$1295/mo
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Enhanced Hosting

Support larger websites and more traffic

  • Typical Use: Websites with 25-50 web pages that receive less than 500 visitors a day.
  • Add a ShopSite (DIY) Shopping Cart
  • Install a WordPress Blog or CMS
  • Featuring NEW SEO and Local Search Tools
  • Unix or Windows platform
  • 99.9% Uptime Guaranteed
$2495/mo
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Premium Hosting

Maximum resources to support complex websites

  • Typical Use: Websites with 50 or more web pages that receive 500 or more visitors a day
  • Host a large, custom-build website
  • EasySite Plus
  • Install a WordPress Blog or CMS
  • Featuring NEW SEO and Local Search Tools
  • Unix or Windows platform
  • 99.9% Uptime Guaranteed
$3795/mo
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Free EasySite Web Design Software: Build a simple website quickly without any design or HTML skills. See the “Details + Pricing” tab for EasySite Website Generator details.

Additional Tools: Blogging tools like Joomla or WordPress, podcasting tools, web traffic monitoring software and the ability to set up multiple databases are also included.

Large Monthly Transfer Amounts to Support Extra Visitors: This ensures that your visitors can simultaneously visit, download and engage with your site without ever slowing it down or costing you extra. This is the amount of data that passes between the server where your website is hosted and your visitors. How much Transfer do you need? Estimate your average page size with graphics MULTIPLIED BY # page views per month. Example: average page size of 50 KB X 2000 page views per day = 3 GB per month. 1,000 GB = 1 TB

Automatic Site Backups: Backups are performed both nightly and weekly at the Data Center level – so an archived version of your site is readily available.

Service & Satisfaction Guarantees: Get reliable performance from our global IP network, our 99.9% server uptime guarantee and a 30 day money back satisfaction guarantee. Uptime is a percentage of time that your website will be working. An uptime guarantee offers compensation should the uptime of a server not meet a predefined percentage of time to be available, in a specific timeframe (usually on a per month basis). Uptime guarantees of 99.9% per month are the most common within the hosting industry.

Legendary Support: 24×7×365 live monitoring and expert support. Your shared server is monitored continuously for abnormal or abusive operations and data center engineers take actions pro-actively when required. Also available are online tutorials and knowledge base for additional help. We are here to help answer your questions.

No commitment required! Month-to-month billing.

BASIC ENHANCED PREMIUM
$12.95/mo $24.95/mo $37.95/mo
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MAIN FEATURES
Disk space (We do not apply specific limits to the amount of disk space you can use for website content. The term “Unlimited” or “No Limit” is for content directly related to the site’s content and cannot exceed the total available space for your hosting account. Disk space should not to be use for file storage, only website content. You can also include up to 5GB of Multimedia content. ) Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Monthly Transfer (Data that passes between the server where your website is hosted and your visitors.) 6 TB 8 TB 12 TB
Email Accounts (POP, IMAP with SSL – TLS, SMTP with SMTP-Auth, Start-TLS, Webmail and Forwards, Autoresponders) 100 250 500
Email Defense Solutions include POP, IMAP with SSL – TLS, SMTP with SMTP-Auth, Start-TLS, Webmail and Forwards, Autoresponders Yes Yes Yes
Dedicated IP Address Yes Yes Yes
Podcasting Tools Yes Yes Yes
CMS and Blogging Tools (Joomla or WordPress) Yes Yes Yes
Additional Email Accounts, $1 each/mo Yes Yes Yes
Ability to Add Additional Bandwidth – $5/GB/mo Yes Yes Yes
Raw Log Files Yes Yes Yes
CGI Capability, Perl, PHP MyAdmin Yes Yes Yes
MySQL Database(s), Unlimited Subdirectories and Redirects Yes Yes Yes
XML, Jscript, and Multiple Host Headers Yes Yes Yes
Basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools (See “Add-Ons” tab for upgrade.) Yes Yes Yes
EasySite WEBSITE GENERATOR FEATURES
EasySite Website Generator, version EasySite (Upgrade to EasySite PLUS for $10/mo) EasySite (Upgrade to EasySite PLUS for $10/mo) EasySite PLUS
# of Pages 9 9 Unlimited within Disk Space
Design Templates 120 120 250
Voting and Number of Media Albums 1 1 Unlimited within Disk Space
Number of Contents in Media Album 100 100 Unlimited within Disk Space
Maximum Quota 300 MB 300 MB 1000 MB
Forums Yes
Weather, Map, Driving Directions, Google Analytics, & .mobi Yes
Accessibility Yes
eCommerce (Product Catalog with PayPal – up to 500 Products) (See our eCommerce website solutions for more eCommerce options.) Yes
Flash Introduction, Feedback Forms, Guestbook and Blogging Tools Yes Yes Yes
Counter, News Ticker, Flash Games, and Flash Maker Yes Yes Yes
Multimedia Archive (500+ material of image, sound and movie) Yes Yes Yes
Favicon Editor, Metadata Per Page, SiteMap, & SiteSearch Yes Yes Yes
Uploader, Footer, and Publish Capabilities Yes Yes Yes
SEO – MARKETING TOOLS
# of URLs Submitted to 100+ Search Engines & DMOZ 1 1 3
Automatic Monthly Resubmission, Manual Submission & Initial Site Review Yes Yes Yes
Meta Tag Analysis Yes Yes
Position Check Yes Yes
Meta Tag Generator Yes
Keyword Analysis Yes
Engine Guidelines Yes
Competitor Analysis Yes
Add DIY Seo Tools and Local Submission for even more SEO functionality! See the “Add-Ons” Tab for info.
EasySite WEBSITE GENERATOR. Standard edition is included for free in Basic and Enhanced Plans. EasySite Plus can be added for $10 per mo. Premium Plan comes with EasySite Plus. Click on the “Details + Pricing” tab for details.
Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (DIY SEO Tools): $17/mo. Order here
Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization – Tech (DIY SEO Tools Tech): $22/mo. Order here
Local Submission Tools: $120/year. Order here.
SSL Certificate – with true 256bit encryption. $175/year. Order here.
What is Shared Web Hosting? Shared web hosting is a service where multiple users and websites reside on one server and share the same server resources. Each site or user has its own section on the server, and shares resources with other sites/users. This is the most cost-effective solution for hosting, as many users share the cost of maintaining the server. This is the most affordable hosting solution for small business owners who don’t want the hassle of maintaining their own private server. If you are interested in a Professional, Managed Solution instead, please see our Business Web Hosting all-inclusive solution.

How do I choose a hosting plan? Choose a hosting plan that will accommodate the growth of your online business. Consider how many visitors you will have, how many pages your website will be and how much you are predicting your online business to grow in the next year to two years. Consider choosing a hosting plan level that offers more resources than you need today. Then you will less likely need to migrate or change plans as your business evolves.

What is data transfer or monthly transfer? Data transfer is the amount of data transferred from your website to the visitor’s browser. Data is usually provided in gigabytes (GB) – (1 GB = 1 billion bytes) – and allotted monthly, meaning you can have a certain amount of data transfer every month. Data refers to text, images, audio and video files that require various amounts of data to transfer. Larger media files, such as high resolution photographs or video, require more data transfer.

How much transfer do I need? You can figure out how much data transfer you will require by estimating your average page size (including graphics!) and multiplying it by the number of page views you expect to have in a month. For example with an average page size of 50 KB, and around 2000 page views per day, you will transfer an average of 3 gigabytes (GB) per month.

What is Unlimited Disk Space? We do not apply specific limits to the amount of disk space you can use for website content. The term “Unlimited” is for content directly related to the site’s content. Disk space is not to be use for file storage, only website content. You can also include up to 5GB of Multimedia content.

How do I add ecommerce? Please see our e-Commerce Website Design features.

How many databases can I have? With our Unix basic web hosting plans you can have as many MySQL databases as you like within the given disk space for the plan. With our Windows basic web hosting plans there are a few options:

PLAN TYPE MS SQL DEFAULT SPACE # DATABASES SQL EXPRESS MYSQL DEFAULT SPACE # DATABASES
Windows (Basic) NO 2 DB 25 MB ea YES 50 MB 1
Windows (Enhanced) YES 50 MB 1 5 DB 25 MB ea YES 100 MB 1
Windows (Premium) YES 200 MB 4 10 DB 25 MB ea YES 200 MB 1

Can I keep my Domain Name when I change hosting providers? Yes. Even if you purchased your domain name from your existing hosting provider, your domain name and web hosting package are two separate entities. You can point your domain name to any hosting provider to display your web pages. Confirm that you are the administrative contact for the domain through our WHOIS service. Enter your domain name and be sure that your name and email appears for the Administrative contact. If it doesn’t, you will need to contact that person to re-point your domain name to your new web hosting package. See also our Domain Name Services for more information and assistance on Domain Names.

How do I tell if I need Windows or Linux? If your pages end in .php, .html or .htm, if you want to use a CMS or MySQL database or run open-source applications we recommend Unix. If your pages end in .ASP or .ASPX, if your site supports .NET technology or if you need a MSSQL database, then you need Windows. Note: Just because your desktop or laptop is Windows-based does not mean you need a Windows hosting plan. If you are not sure ask your web designer / developer.

I don’t have any experience creating a website. Can you help me? You can start with EasySite Website Generator, our free design tool included with all Shared Hosting Web Hosting Plans. You can choose from 100′s of templates, add your logo, choose your color scheme and add your content using an interface that functions much like Microsoft® Word. Better yet, upgrade to EasySite Plus for even more functionality. If you require a custom business website and prefer to have someone else do the work, please take a look at our All-Inclusive Custom Web Design Plans.

Note: Information including product details and pricing may change at any time without any further notice.

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