Our Search For A Web Hosting Company
When we first established our web site, we started out with a local ISP who provided us with web space. This was fine at the beginning - we didn't have much traffic and we weren't doing a lot of business. But as our business grew, we ran into problems. Our high amount of traffic began to tax that local ISP's servers who one day asked us to reduce our traffic or find another hosting company. We weren't in a position to reduce our traffic, so we had to switch to another company.

We ultimately moved to a company which claimed to offer unlimited traffic at a low price. This was fine for awhile as well - until they decided to change their policy and start charging us exorbitant prices based on the amount of traffic we were experiencing. When we tried to negotiate with them, we encountered a stone wall and outright rudeness - they demanded that we pay the extra charges within three days or be shut down! In a desperate panic, we began a search for a professional web hosting company which would charge us reasonable prices for a high quality solution.

Hosting.com was the answer to our hosting problems! Since we've hosted our site with Hosting.com, we feel like we've joined a family which cares about our business and about us!

Here's just a small sample of what we've experienced:

• True 24/7 technical support. Although our problems have been minimal, when we have needed help, all we've had to do is jot off a quick email. We usually receive at least an initial answer within an hour, often fixing the problem completely. Even if it takes longer, the problem is usually solved by the next morning. The tech support representatives are helpful, conscientious, and always polite.

• Large traffic allowances! When our site was hosted by the company which claimed to offer unlimited traffic, we were experiencing 10 gb of traffic per month. When they changed their policy, they wanted to charge us $150.00 per month, solely for the increased traffic! With Hosting.com, we can get that amount of traffic allowance for $39.00 per month and their more sophisticated plans (one of which we have chosen) offers up to 20 gb of traffic per month.

• A fantastic website administration module, called WSM 8.1. The level of control over your web site this tool gives you is phenomenal! We never saw anything like this with our previous hosting companies. The WSM module allows you to manage your web site files, your email addresses, counters, statistics, autoresponders, and much more! It allows you to monitor your disk space usage, create virtual hosts (additional top or second level domains), and check spelling on your site.

• Fast, low overhead, multi-T3 access which will ensure that your web site loads quickly and seamlessly!

• Daily backups - hopefully, you'll never need them, but if you ever do, you'll be happy you chose Virtualis!

• The best web statistics reporting package we've seen! Easy to use and full of the information you need to monitor your web traffic and make those necessary adjustments to improve your web site's effectiveness.

• SMART Autoresponders - these automatic email programs send your articles, announcements, etc. to those who request them and then follow up with further emails at intervals you establish! We looked far and wide to find this type of autoresponder and the only ones we could find either charged too much money or put their own advertisements in your emails. Now, we have this ability through Hosting.com at no extra charge over the rate we pay for the hosting plan we have chosen.
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