Flexible Local Web Hosting Solutions
There are a number of excellent reasons for choosing a local web hosting provider.
- Personal commitment – Your local web hosting provider has a commitment to you as a customer. More than you will ever experience through one of the national hosting providers.
One on one customer service – Your phone call to a local hosting provider is far more likely to be answered by a real human being rather than a phone answering tree. - Hands on service – Your local web hosting provider will provide a higher level of administrative and technical support. Your technical problems are not just the next problem on the call tree…it’s personal.
- Your problems are personal – A local web hosting provider knows you and your business personally…and treat you like a real customer…not just the next call.
- One on one – Local web hosting providers can meet in person to discuss your individual needs and help you understand the ins and outs of hosting.
- Individual solutions – Local web hosting providers are not tied to the requirements of a rigid management system. We have the freedom to create the hosting solution you need.
- Reliability and up-time – Our networks are monitored 24/7 from multiple locations. Technical support is notified within 6 minutes of a server or network issue. Our network up-time averages better than 99.9%.
HTML Hosting Plans
Starting at $20.00 per month – Paid annually
HTML Web Hosting – Basic Plan
- 1 Dedicated IP Address
- Storage
- 1 GIG file space (includes all site files, javascript and css files, database files, image and media files and log files)
- 5 GIG File Transfer Per Month – (about 25,000 page views per month)
- Email (Details) – Up to 10 email accounts, 10 email forwards, SpanAssassin and Virus Scan, POP, IMAP and SMTP with web access and optional encryption with self-assigned certificate.
- Up to two remote FTP accounts.
- Full DNS hosting
- Daily Local Backups
HTML Web Hosting – Pro Plan
- 1 Dedicated IP Address
- Storage
- 2 GIG file space
- 10 GIG File Transfer Per Month – (about 50,000 page views per month)
- Email (Details) – Up to 10 email accounts, 10 email forwards, SpanAssassin and Virus Scan, POP, IMAP and SMTP with web access and optional encryption with self-assigned certificate.
- Up to two remote FTP accounts.
- Full DNS hosting
- Daily Local Backups
HTML Web Hosting – Enterprise Plan
- 1 Dedicated IP Address
- Storage
- 5 GIG file space
- 50 GIG File Transfer Per Month – (about 500,000 page views per month)
- Email (Details) – Up to 20 email accounts, 20 email forwards, SpanAssassin and Virus Scan, POP, IMAP and SMTP with web access and optional encryption with self-assigned certificate.
- Up to four remote FTP accounts.
- Full DNS hosting
- Daily Local Backups
Application Web Hosting Plans
Starting at $25.00 per month – Paid annually
Application Web Hosting – Basic
- 1 Dedicated IP Address
- Storage
- 5 GIG file space (includes all site files, Javascript, CSS, program files, database, image and media files, log files and backup files)
- 10 GIG File Transfer Per Month – (about 50,000 page views per month)
- Email (Details) – Up to 10 email accounts, 10 email forwards, SpanAssassin and Virus Scan, POP, IMAP and SMTP with web access and optional encryption with self-assigned certificate.
- Up to two remote FTP accounts and up to two application management accounts.
- Full DNS hosting
- Daily Local file, program and database Backups
Application Web Hosting – Pro
- 1 Dedicated IP Address
- Storage
- 10 GIG file space (includes all site files, javascript, css, program files, database, image and media files, log files and backup files)
- 50 GIG File Transfer Per Month – (about 50,000 page views per month)
- Email (Details) – Up to 10 email accounts, 10 email forwards, SpanAssassin and Virus Scan, POP, IMAP and SMTP with web access and optional encryption with self-assigned certificate.
- Up to two remote FTP accounts and up to two application management accounts.
- Full DNS hosting
- Daily Local file, program and database Backups
Application Web Hosting – Enterprise
- 1 Dedicated IP Address
- Storage
- 15 GIG file space (includes all site files, javascript, css, program files, database, image and media files, log files and backup files)
- 100 GIG File Transfer Per Month – (about 100,000 page views per month)
- Email (Details) – Up to 10 email accounts, 10 email forwards, SpanAssassin and Virus Scan, POP, IMAP and SMTP with web access and optional encryption with self-assigned certificate.
- Up to two remote FTP accounts and up to two application management accounts.
- Full DNS hosting
- Daily Local file, program and database Backups
Virtual and Dedicated Servers and Co-location Services
Starting at $40.00 per month – Paid annually
Multiple Website Virtual Web Hosting Servers
Virtual servers are part of shared hardware where the operating system and software are at least partially isolated from other users hosted on the same hardware.
Virtual servers gives you access to manage your portion of the server through an administration panel. Your virtual server can use multiple IP addresses, install server side applications and manage multiple sites. Virtual servers are less costly than dedicated servers but have more limitations.
Contact sales to discuss your specific server needs.
Dedicated Web Hosting Servers
Dedicated servers are hardware servers that are dedicated specifically to your use. You have complete control over the management of the server, installed software and server configuration.
Additional Web Hosting and Co-location Fees:
Offsite backups:
- Additional Dedicated IPV4 Address are available
- Bandwidth – Additional bandwidth is available in 10 GIG blocks.
- Daily Same Server Backups are available
- Weekly Same Server Backups are available
- Custom daily/weekly off site backup services available
- Minimum LAMP Server – 4 cores – 3GIG CPUs, 8 GIG Ram
- Hardware, Lamp Setup, VirtualMin Setup, Debian, Apache2, PHP, MySQL, SMTP, POP, IMAP and DNS
- Colocation with hardware, storage and bandwidth.
- Mirrored backup with optional off server backup.
- LAMP Server – Hardware Furnished
Dedicated IP Address
To locate your website among the billions of sites on the Internet requires a precise addressing system. At the root of this system is the IP (Internet Protocol) address.
There are now two types of network IP addresses, IPV4 (192.168.100.255 for example) and IPV6 (2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. for example). Actually using these network addresses to visit a website would be a bit cumbersome so the Domain Name System was devised to make it easier for humans to locate a specific website. The Domain Name System uses DNS servers to lookup the IP address of the server where your website is located.
What is a dedicated IP address?
Most hosting companies use a system that allows them to host hundreds of websites on a single IP address. A dedicated IP address means that your website is the only website hosted on that IP address. This gives you several advantages.
- You do not need a DNS entry or Domain Name to access your website, or web server.
- You can access your site, ftp, web services, etc., using the IP address even if your URL is not yet registered.
- You can use a number of different web services that require their own IP address.
- Until recently, a dedicated IP address was the only way to have an identity specific security certificate.
- While SNI technology now allows multiple identity security certificates on the same IP not all browsers support the technology.
Howl’n Dog uses dedicated IP addresses for all of our hosting accounts.
Storage & Bandwidth
Web hosting accounts include differing levels of storage, delivery speed and bandwidth.
Storage: Storage is the amount of hard drive space allocated to your web site.This includes:
- Website files and images
- Software files such as JavaScript, CSS, PHP, etc.
- Database files such as MYSQL databases
- Log files that are created by your web server to track all visitors to your site
- File backups
The management of these files are your responsibility unless you have chosen a managed web hosting account.
Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the amount of data uploaded and downloaded from your website by you and all of your site visitors. While every web page is different, with caching, you can assume about 25,000 pages views per month per 5 GIG of transfer.
Hosted Email Services
Email is an essential part of your customer interaction. Our Email hosting services allow you to choose the service and limits you need for your business.
Shared Email Hosting: This is our basic email hosting account and is included in all of our web hosting accounts.
- Up to 10 email accounts and up to a total of 1 GIG of email data.
- Unlimited email forwards
- SpamAssassin and Virus Scan
- POP, IMAP and SMTP with web access encryption (using self-assigned certificate)
Dedicated Email Hosting: Dedicated email hosting isolates your email to a dedicated IP address. There are two levels of dedicated email hosting.
- Co-hosted Email runs on a virtual server but under a dedicated IP address.
- Up to 50 email addresses and up to a total of 10 GIG of email data
- Unlimited email forwards
- Custom SpamAssassin and Virus controls
- POP, IMAP and SMTP with encryption (using a public signed SSL certificate)
- Co-Located Email Server is a stand alone server with a dedicated IP address.
- Email accounts limited only by the speed and capacity of your server.
- Custom SpamAssassin and Virus controls
- POP, IMAP and SMTP with encryption (using a public signed SSL certificate)
- Complete custom configuration of all email services
Backups
Daily backups are included for all of our hosting accounts. These backups are mirror backups of your current website and website setup and are used to recreate your website in the case of a critical hardware error or crash. There are additional backup services available.
Daily Backups – We offer additional backup services. The most common include daily backups to a different location. The most common frequency is daily for seven days but other schedules can be arranged.