A hosting company maintains your website on the internet. Your hosting company should ensure your website and email is running quickly, and is immune to hackers. Your hosting company's data center should be secure with back-up power and a redundant network of servers. Server software should be upgraded on a regular basis, and data should be backed up and stored in a secure location each day. And, in case you did need to talk to someone, technical support personnel should be available 24/7. Our recommended hosting company, netStride, provides this security; however, if you choose, you may use another company. Support, “uptime”, how fast your website will display, email features, and cost vary substantially based on your selection of hosting provider.

Personal support is a rare commodity in today’s market, and essentially non-existent with a budget host. We caution against “budget hosting” as these vendors often overload servers leading to slow response, may not accommodate new technology, and additional charges may add up to the same cost as a quality provider.

netStride offers website hosting packages with 5 email addresses for $30 per month, or with 10 email addresses for $35 per month. Email program can interface with Outlook, or the mail server can be accessed online.

All websites hosted by netStride include analytics which allow our clients to track the traffic on their websites.  You can login to see how many unique visitors your site has had, what pages they visited, etc.  This information can be very useful for marketing strategies.