Hosting Your Website
In order to have your website online, it's necessary to establish two critical factors - a domain name and web hosting. Your hosting service is what provides the computer storage space where your site's files, scripts, and images are made available to the world, accessible through your domain name. ("joedolson.com" is my domain name, for an example.) It's critical that your hosting service is conscientious about security, has excellent customer service policies, and provides the support your site will need to continue running.
Although not everybody needs to know every detail about how web hosting operates, it's important to get a sense for scale, in order to understand what is being made available to you. Although I'm perfectly willing and able to work with whatever preexisting hosting arrangements you have made, I'm also happy to assist you in changing your hosting situation to provide you with the best arrangement for you.
I do not manage web hosting myself; instead, I am a reseller of hosting services from ICDSoft.com, an international hosting provider. ICDsoft is an incredibly reliable hosting service with fantastic customer service. In the past five years, I have experienced only one major outage, which lasted less than a day. ICDsoft provided constant updates to its customers during this period to let me know what the problems were and what they were doing. This is the kind of communication which makes a company very easy and pleasant to work with.
I'm happy to work with your site if it's currently hosted with another service - but I highly recommend ICDsoft and will help you relocate your website to their service at no cost, if it's a suitable match.
ICDsoft is not suitable for every website - if you require a dedicated server or exceptional bandwidth and storage, this isn't the answer for you. But for most small businesses, they are an excellent and cost effective solution.
ICDsoft offers two hosting plans: the Universal plan and the Business plan. We can discuss your needs and choose the best plan for your site. These prices are what you pay to me if you secure hosting through me.
Universal Plan ($115/2 years)
- 1000 MB Disk Storage Space
- 20 GB/Month Data transfer allowance
- 15 Subdomains
- 10 MySQL Databases
- Web accessible email
- Unlimited Email accounts
- PERL, PHP4, PHP5, Python, Ruby, and TCL server-side scripting support
- Webalizer and AWStats packages
Business Plan ($220/2 years)
- 10,000 MB Disk Storage Space
- 200 GB/Month Data transfer allowance
- 150 Subdomains
- 100 MySQL Databases
- Web accessible email
- Unlimited Email accounts
- PERL, PHP4, PHP5, Python, Ruby, and TCL server-side scripting support
- Webalizer and AWStats packages
If you'd rather have direct control over your hosting, and make all the arrangements yourself that's just fine, of course -- although selling hosting to you is a convenience to me, it's not required! I do have a strong preference for ICDSoft's hosting, however. As a result, I can supply the promotional code “joedolson.” Using this code, you can purchase your own hosting with a 20% discount off ICDSoft's regular prices.
