8 Reasons to Choose Alive Hosting

Here are eight reasons to choose Alive Hosting as your hosting partner:

Service – Hosting is a service industry and service is what Alive Hosting is all about. Our friendly staff of “real people” goes that extra mile to make sure your experience is pleasant and profitable.

Technology – The best servers with the latest stable operating systems, rigorously monitored “24x7” add up to rock solid, secure hosting – leaving you free to manage your business, while we manage your site. See full details on our infrastructure.

Experience – We have been providing web services since 1995 and are able to draw on a great depth of experience.

Financial Stability – It is a sad fact that many hosting companies have fallen by the wayside over the past few years. Alive Hosting is self funded, has no debt, is in a comfortable growth curve and is certain to be around (in its current form) for years to come, making us an ideal long term partner.

Price – A hosting partnership is (or should be) a long-term commitment. This means that cost is more important than if one were dealing with a “one-off” payment – amplifying the relevance of price. Alive Hostings plans offer great value for money, starting at only AU$17.96 per month – you will not get more for less anywhere! See our list of plans, their features and pricing - you'll be amazed.

Features – Alive Hosting’s plans are packed with value added features – web based mail, enterprise level statistics, advanced control panels, multi domain name accounts, – the list goes on.

Guarantees – If you are not 100% satisfied within your first 30 days at Alive Hosting, we will refund 100% of your money. No questions asked. Check out our guarantees.

Free Trial – We are so confident that you will be impressed with our web hosting services, that we can give you a 15 day free trial period. You will be able to fully setup and test your

What is web hosting anyway?

Web hosting is where your actual web pages, images and Web Site address are located.

Have you considered how important Web Hosting is to your business?

Over the past few months we've spoken to a lot of business owners who've expressed problems with their chosen Web Hosting company. These aren't just tiny irritating problems, these are problems that actually cost the company business - which costs them money.

The kind of problems that people often complain about include:

• lousy support
• unable to get into their server every time, straight away
• servers going down - people can't log on to your site
• email going down - you can't send or receive email
• security issues - being hacked
• server side scripting, online transactions, and databases not working as they should

If you already are experiencing any of these problems then you already know how taxing they can be, both on your time and your budget.

If you haven't experienced them yet, you can probably see how these kind of problems could cost you your online business.

You simply cannot afford to do business with a bad hosting company.

It will cost you your time, your credibility, your clients and your cash.

You might be thinking, so how much is a good Web Hosting service going to cost me?

Well, thankfully you don't have to spend the earth to get great hosting any more.

Alive Hosting offers a great solutions for all types of web hosting requirements - whether you need to host a simple HTML web site, or a fully fledged database driven e-commerce system - our plans start from a mear $17.96 per month. Our goal is to accommodate all your web hosting needs - we've made sure you can have every professional feature you require. See a full list of our plans.

Just remember, a good web hosting facility needs to provide you with:

• Great support to help you out with any problems, responsive, and available when you need it
  
• Fast access (how many people can come onto your site at the same time) - test the sites hosted on a Web Host yourself and see how fast they are at different times of the day
  
• Excellent reliability - must be available online at least 99.99% of the time
  
• Experience - how long have they been around
  (Alive has been around since 1996)
  
• Sizable disk space - you want a reasonable amount of disk space, for example 1 Mb can store about 30 Web pages or images at an average 30 Kb each
  (Alive's smallest plan gives you 100 Mb!)
  
• Good security - so that no one can hack into your sites
  (All of our servers are behind our Cisco Pix Firewalls and we have in place many of the latest security measures, including: fire detection and suppression, 24/7 armed guards, and closed circuit cameras monitoring every square foot of our facility.)
  
• Easy to use tools to update material to your Web Site, both web development tools and file transfer tools - FTP - which transfer of files from your computer to the server
  (Alive's control panel includes all these tools, plus many, many more)
  
• Domain name hosting - needs to be able to host your domain name - make sure you are the contact person for it! Alive has a full domain name registration service www.alivedomains.com
  
• Good data transfer - between 1-2 Gigs of data transfer per month should be ample. This indicates how many people can pull up your pages, it is the data transfer from the hosts server to the visitors local Web browser. (Alive's smallest plans include 5 Gigs and go all the way up to 15 Gigs)
  
• Easy email and autoresponder setup - you need at least 5 POP email accounts, plus one catch all address e.g.. anything@yourdomain.com, that will collect any stray emails sent to your domain name. You want a good number of autoresponders as well, this means when someone sends that address an email, the autoresponder will shoot them back a pre-written email straight away, saving you time and making you look more professional. (Alive provides with an UNLIMITED number of POP, autoresponders, and email forwarding accounts, plus many other email functions)
  
• SSL security, very important for offering secure credit card transactions
  (Your accounts can have this setup with Alive)
  
• Site statistics - Access to log files and statistics showing you your site traffic - this is very important (All Alive's plans come with great tools for monitoring site statistics)
  
• A web hosting plan that can accomodate your Associate Program if you will be offering replicated pages for your Associates (Speak to us about how to set this up)

If you have any further questions about our web hosting services please contact us.