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What Makes a Good Host?

What makes for a good host? (Other than politeness, etiquette, generosity, facilitating conversation, serving unlimited quantities of amazing food and beverage, and making you feel comfortable for hours on end?)

If you're talking about website hosting, here are some important qualities that may be more important that starting conversations or pacifying insecure personalities.

Reliability.
Servers that consistently deliver over 99.9% uptime (Ours do; less than six hours of total downtime every year for the past six years and counting.)

Stability.
Servers that keep serving up web pages without avoidable downtime from viruses and volatility. (Ours do.)

Speed.
Servers that respond quickly to requests, database lookups, transactions, clicks. (Ours do.)

Security.
Servers that keep private information private, encrypt secure information and use leading security best-practices to guard your information. (Ours do.)

Responsiveness.
Servers that use responsive web server hardware and software so that your customers aren't left waiting. (Ours do.)

Redundancy.
Servers with redundant electrical power backups, internet backbone connectivity, networking components, hard drives, and such. (Ours do.)

Flexibility.
Servers that can do whatever your website needs. Whatever. Virtually anything that can be done on the web. (Ours do.)

Adaptability.
Servers that can follow the times, adjust to morphing standards and techniques and best-practices. (Ours do.)

Technology
Servers that can make the most of proven technology without being on the bleeding edge (hey, bleeding is bad). (Ours keep up, but don't bleed.)

Scalability
Your website may start out as a brochure but end up as an online store. Your few pages that were fine as a brochure in Y2K might now warrant database driven content management systems, and draw a lot of traffic every month. What servers could possibly support both extremes? (Ours do.)

We host websites that we build. (But we're not a "hosting service". If you're looking for a good hosting service for a third-party-designed-and-devleoped website, there are many admirable hosting services that we've heard of but can't necessarily vouch for since we host all our own sites. If this is what you need, please try Google, and our sincere best wishes go with you.)

If, however, you are looking for a quality hosting solution along with a knowledgeable, experienced web design and development partner that has been creating websites for over ten years, please contact us to discuss your particular needs.