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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.
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