Community Hosting
We offer a community hosting plan to select individuals, small businesses and non-profits. Our community network allows you to access customized services that you would otherwise need a third-party service to provide.
All of our services are 100% hosted and managed in Canada (we are located in Vancouver).
"Drupal-Ready" Web Hosting
Our hosting plans are designed to work with the popular Drupal content management system. This allows us to offer some unique services that other hosting providers cannot provide. Since we run our own servers we have the flexibility to grow with your business.
Unlike other web hosting companies we also provide:
- Routine security updates to YOUR website software
- Support for both hosting and the content management system that runs on it
- Routine backups of your data, kept on encrypted drives, and stored off-site and off-line in case anything goes wrong
- Secure access to your email account(s) and/or files hosted on the site
Plan Options
| Static $10/month CAD |
Drupal Basic $20/month CAD |
Drupal Advanced $50/month CAD |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Website hosting | yes | yes | yes |
|
Edit the website using a web browser |
no | yes | yes |
| Included Drupal CMS support |
no | no | up to 30 minutes° |
| Security updates to your Drupal modules |
no | yes | yes |
| e-Commerce assistance | no | no | yes* |
| Email account(s) | one included | 1-5 accounts | unlimited |
| Email forwarding accounts | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Access to email over the web (aka "webmail") | yes | yes | yes |
| Synchronization of read/unread, sent mail across devices | no | yes | yes |
| Integration with external mailing lists | yes | yes | yes |
| Custom mailing list manager | no | no | yes* |
| Global address book(s) | no | no | yes* |
| Online calendar(s) | no | one | unlimited |
| Redirecting old URLs and domain names | no | yes | yes |
| Version control account(s) powered by SVN | no | no | yes |
° Speak to a real human with our support plan, or get some training.
* These items may require a setup fee to get started.
Uptime and Bandwidth Considerations
Many hosting companies promise ridiculous "up time" but do not even offer support for content management systems on their networks. We provide an integrated solution. If anything goes wrong on the server our technicians are notified within 10 minutes. On average our sites are only ever offline for about 10-20 minutes per month while we are doing updates.
Most small business should not be concerned about bandwidth when starting up a web presence. Unless you are hosting a lot of video content (and not just linking to it - as you would with YouTube) you will probably never consume enough data to warrant getting a high-bandwidth package. If your site grows to the point where it needs to be hosted on the backbone of the Internet we can help you set that up as part of our consulting services.