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Automatic Site Backups: Backups are performed both nightly and weekly at the Data Center level – so an archived version of your site is readily available.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

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:

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.