Static Sites and Site Builder

Build a new site in minutes with our site builder. 

Site Builder Features

  • 190+ templates to start from

  • Easy drag and drop of page elements via blocks

  • Use your own domain name -- example.com

  • Use your own HTML and Javascript

  • Shopping Cart with multiple payment methods supported

    • PayPal

    • Stripe

    • BrainTree

    • Skrill

    • And more

  • Blogging

  • Contact us forms

  • Social Media:

    • Twitter feeds

    • Facebook - likes and comments

    • Linkedin feeds

    • And more

  • Embed Youtube videos with just their ID or URL

  • And more

Standard Features

  • Use your own domain - example.com

  • Free SSL / TLS certificate - https

    • Let's Encrypt

  • No ads, logo placements, etc

  • Responsive support - less than 30 minute reply times with focus on first reply resolution.

  • 99.9% Uptime SLA

 

Techie Jargon

  • DNS (nameservers) with DNSSEC support

  • IPv6 among all services

  • Git Publishing and Repo Hosting Nginx HTTP/2 ready servers

  • Servers are not packed or oversold and have plenty of resources for bursting

  • Node.JS as an addon option -- contact us for more info

  • Firewall with SPI and IDS (intrusion detection) protection

  • Daily backups, stored off servce and kept for at least 15 days

Static Websites

 

HTML, CSS, Javascript, an application to develop (write) in, and a place to call home is all you need for a site and everything else is just unused dough.

 

Our static website hosting offers a place for your site to call home.

 

Static sites do not rely on PHP or databases to generate their content and as a benefit load quickly and server resources usages are generally low.

Site Builder

 

With our site builder, you can create a site without knowing any HTML, CSS, or javascript and you will never need to know what those are. Move around elements with drag and drop ease.  Work with text as if you were using a word processor. Create sites that look great on mobile. Add pictures to pages with a couple clicks. Then preview your changes and publish the site. All without leaving the site builder interface.

 

A site builder takes the place of web design software that runs on your computer.  As the builder runs on our servers, it is always available any where for that quick update you need done.

 

The site builder publishes directly to your storage area and you can download the published files for your own backups.

A few features

  • One click publishing
  • Import your current site's public pages
  • Preview changes before publishing
    • Preview with different sizes, from small phones to large desktop displays
  • Layout elements with drag and drop ease with element blocks
  • Auto-layout for mobile browsers
  • Over 190 Templates to start from
  • Add social media content
    • Twitter Feeds
    • Linkedin Feeds
    • Facebook Comments, Likes, etc
  • eCommerce - Shopping cart with with multiple payment gateways:
    • PayPal
    • Stripe
    • Skrill
    • Braintree
    • ...and others
  • Or use a browsing type store for visitors to browse and then contact you via the built-in contact form
  • Format text similar to a word processor
  • Picture Gallery with Image library for easy selection
  • Built-in help tutorials with slide shows

By the way, this site was built using our site builder.

Responsive Support

 

In the service industry customer service / support is key to a great customer experience. Support is one of our main focuses. Support will read your tickets and reply with helpful information and not predefined (scripted) replies. Response times are usually 30 minutes or less with critical tickets receiving faster replies. We are hand holding friendly.

 

With multiple years of industry experience being the average among staff, we know what you need when you ask for it.  If we do not know the answer, research will be done to find so that your question or issue will be resolved.

 

Support Duties - brief list

 

  • Help with setting up services
  • Help with the site builder options
  • Answering question on how to do an action within the control panel, stats, etc
  • Helping with service outages / issues
  • Resolving any service related questions that you may have
  • And any question at all about hosting and other services

 

Plesk - Control Panel

We use Plesk for our website hosting control panel. Plesk's user interface is easy to navigate and has built-in help documents on almost every page. Its built-in file manager allows you to upload and edit files, archive folders, rename files / folders, change permissions, etc. Resource usages are also displayed, so you know exactly what you are using.

Nginx is a front end web server that connects to the backend web processes such as PHP or Apache. Nginx handles caching of any content to make site loads as fast as possible. Nginx handles requests of static content (javascript files, style sheet files, etc) faster than Apache and thus is configured out of the box to do so.

 

Nginx supports HTTP/2 out of the box.

Reliable Servers

Our servers use enterprise grade hardware from Dell or other well known server manufactures. All server hardware parts are enterprise grade from the power supply to the hard drives and RAID controller. Hard drives are hot swappable, so that if a drive fails it can be changed out without downtime.

 

Servers are not packed and always have available resources for bursting of site resources.

 

Services are backed by a 99.9% Monthly Uptime SLA. We publish uptime reports pubically for transparency.

Rebootless Kernel Updates

The kernel is the captian of the operating system and everything flows through the Kernel. As such, keeping it updated against security threats is important and so is keeping uptime at the maximum possible levels.

 

KernelCare allows us to update (patch) the kernel without requiring a reboot of the server. At times the updates provided can arrive faster than from the operating system's developers and those still require a reboot.

Ever wondered what code you changed 5 days ago but not could not recall all the changes?  With version control via git, you can see all changes that where commited, who commited the change, and when via your git supported design software.

 

With Git publishing, you can use a Git repository hosted remotely, like on GitHub , or on our web server and have changes automatically published to your site when you push changes to the repo.

 

With Git repo (repository) hosting, you can store your Git repos on our web server and start using version control.

http/2

http/2 is a major revision of the protocol that the web is driven by. The last revision, 1.1, was released in 1997! http/2 evolves http by utilizing one connection for every page load instead of one connection for every page element (images, css, js). And with one connection, multiple simultaneous requests can occur. Thus http/2 is more efficient than http/1.1.

Security and Firewalls

WAF and File Scanners

Web Application Firewall (WAF) uses a mix of custom, open source, and commercial rule sets. These rules check content and other web requests for malicious activity.  Rule sets are updated constantly to address the always changing landscape of security.

 

We use multiple anti-virus / malware scanners with different definition databases from different sources.

Server Firewall

Our server based firewall has automatic intrusion detection (IDS), failed login blocking to stop bruteforce attacks, DoS and DDoS detection and blocking.  We use multiple blacklists to prevent known attackers from even reaching your site(s).

File System Security

CageFS isolates a webspace's (your) files from other webspaces using a virtual file system called a chroot or jail. each webspace uses their own CageFS instance. This prevents another account reading your files or even knowing you are on the server. Even different webspaces in your account can not read other webspaces in your account.

 

SElinux provides security contexts so that users can not access files they should not have access to. This provides an additional file system security separate from CageFS. We keep SElinux enabled, where possible, while other hosts disable it as their standards.

 

Backups

All servers are backed up at least once a day using a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) backup system. Backups are kept for 15 days and archived weekly. Databases are backed up every 3 to 4 hours. We also encourge the use of available backup tools to create your own backups.