Web Hosting

You have so many options when it comes to creating your website. To give you the freedom you need to create an online presence that reflects your brand or personality, we support all of them.

Our Robust, all-in-one hosting solution includes everything you need to put your business or personal site online—and to make it for years to come.

Managed Web Hosting

“Web hosting” is the term given to the collective service of keeping your website and email online.  Your website (and email) consists of many (often hundreds or thousands) of individual files and often a database that stores information.  All this stuff sits on a powerful computer (the ‘server’) and the web hosting fee that you pay basically is your ‘rent’ on that server.  Whether you opt for ‘shared hosting’ (like an apartment building where you rent a portion of the whole building) or ‘dedicated hosting’ (where you own the whole building), you are simply renting space on another computer that is hooked up to the internet.

Anyway, web hosting is practically a commodity these days.  You can spend just about any amount you want to on it and get it from thousands of various providers around the web.  Boxed Solutions provides web hosting to our clients because hosting a website and building a website go hand in hand.  And by hosting the sites we build, we’re able to eliminate the potential pitfalls that come with introducing another vendor into the mix.  If we build your site and someone else hosts it, then you may end up in a scenario where something doesn’t work, and we blame the web hosting company, they blame us, and you as the client have no idea who to believe since this isn’t your cup of tea.  You certainly aren’t required to host with us, but we do recommend that you let us host your site since we can eliminate that potential passing of the buck.

Here are more examples of what you get with fully managed web hosting that the budget web hosts don’t typically provide:

  • We upload and configure your web site for you (including setting up the database).
  • We will set up and manage all your email addresses for you and provide support for things like configuring Outlook, Blackberries, etc.
  • We automatically set up web stats for you and provide reports upon request (you of course have access to real-time reports at any time, but if you simply want to know how much traffic you got on any particular day, you can just contact us and ask, and we’ll email over a graphical report).
  • We automatically set up daily backup systems for you so that you don’t have to take it upon yourself to figure out how to protect your website and data.
  • If you have questions about anything, you can simply call us up and talk to a real person.  There is no phone tag.  No complicated ticket system.  We provide very personal support.
  • Also, because our web hosting clients are also typically our web development clients, we can provide a much more seamless support system for upgrades, maintenance, and other web needs.

And of course, we provide all the other typical service standards, such as 99.99% up time guarantees, full control panel access, web-based email access, web stats, daily backup, etc., etc.

Web Hosting Plans

We offer both shared and dedicated hosting plans.  We will of course consult with you on which web hosting plan best fits you.  In general, we tend to suggest that you start small and grow into more robust hosting plans as your traffic and load dictate.

Bare Bones Web Hosting Plan

Bare bones plans are designed for special uses (such as directing a domain name to a specific page within another site.  They do not provide any stats, email, databases, or much web space/bandwidth.  As such, they are not suitable for hosting an actual full-blown website.

Business Web Hosting Plan:

This is our entry level plan for ‘normal’ web hosting.  It allows for everything that a typical website would need for moderate usage:

  • Unlimited space
  • Unlimited disk transfer (bandwidth)
  • Daily backup of all files and databases
  • Email Access (POP3, SMTP, and Webmail).  All the features you’d expect are included: email aliases, autoresponders, mail forwarding, mailing lists, etc. There are no limits on email accounts, provided they fit within the disk space and bandwidth limits.
  • mySQL  Database support
  • Full domain support (including domain parking, forwarding, aliasing, subdomains, etc.)
  • Full FTP access (including the ability to set up multiple users and FTP accounts)
  • Full control panel access so that you can access/manage all aspects of your web hosting and email accounts if you so choose
  • Robust, graphical web traffic stats