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Common Hosting Questions
What is hosting? And how does it differ from a domain?
- A domain is your web address. Like your home address, it is how people find you. Hosting can be thought of like your house that resides at your address. It is the actual property your website lives on. You need both to have a website.
How secure is your server?
- Our server is military grade security for your business' online presence. The servers are stored in a biometric fingerprint and passcode entry building in Salt Lake City. We have daily back-ups stored off site and generator back-ups to ensure your site will not be effected by any power outages. Read more about our hosting servers.
Website Hosting
Managing the infrastructure, support and maintenance of a mission critical website can be both costly and complicated. BigforkWEB will makes it simple and cost effective because our developers become intimately familiar with your site/application and can provide immediate assistance. Dependency on fewer companies allows for better control over your web site.
Basic Web Hosting Package
Our Basic package Includes:
- Unlimited disk space
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Full FTP access to server.
- Real time web-based server statistics
- Web-based email
- Unlimited POP email accounts
one-time setup $50
monthly fee $25
eCommerce Hosting Package
Our eCommerce package Includes:
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for secure, encrypted transactions
- PHP, MySQL capability allowing for dynamic web pages
- Unlimited disk space
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Full FTP access to server.
- Real time web-based server statistics
- Web-based email
- Unlimited POP email accounts
one-time setup $50
monthly fee $25
Domain Name Registration
After conducting a domain name search, we will provide you with a list of available domain names. Once you decide, we can register your domain(s) and configure your website. Get your domain now!
- 1+ year - $35.00
- 3+ years - $30.00
- 5+ years - $25.00
To begin producing better results from your Internet initiatives contact BigforkWEB now to Schedule a Meeting or Request a Proposal.
Information On Our Hosting Servers
Network
To ensure our world class network, Bigfork Web Development exclusively utilizes Cisco hardware for robustness and reliability. Routing is handled with redundant hardware to protect against unforeseen problems.
Backbone connections are brought in to Bigfork Web Development over multiple fiber connections via sonet rings. Load balancing as well as fail-over redundancy across these connections is carried out with BGP v4. Bigfork Web Development also maintains strategic peering agreements with other large networks at multiple locations such as PAIX (Palo Alto Internet eXchange) and CommIX (formerly Utah Rep). These peering agreements benefit all Bigfork Web Development customers by allowing their data to take a more direct route to its destination rather than meandering around the Internet before reaching its target.
Bigfork Web Development also offers the flexibility of "carrier neutral" fiber. This solution offers a client the security and redundancy of a world-class datacenter with the ability to use their own data network for transport.
Power
Bigfork Web Development makes use of a large, turbo diesel generator in combination with a next-generation UPS and automatic transfer switch system to provide steady, clean, hospital grade, uninterruptible electricity to our customers' servers. The generator is tested weekly and multiple fuel delivery contracts are in place to replenish fuel as needed for days or even weeks, if there is a long power outage.
Our data center can handle very dense concentrations of power. Most data centers are designed to supply 30 to 50 watts per square foot. The Bigfork Web Development Data Center is designed to supply 150 watts per square foot with an infrastructure built to handle up to 1.5 megawatts of total power consumption for the facility.
Environment
Your server might not tell you if it's too hot, but it may not be as reliable if it doesn't get proper cooling. Computers function best at mild temperatures and in a low-static atmosphere. The Bigfork Web Development Data Center is kept at 70° F year round. The collocation area employs an anti-static raised floor throughout to ensure that there aren't any errant electrical discharges around your computers. The humidity is also kept at optimum levels to reduce static build up in the air. This keeps servers happier and functioning well.
Physical & Network Security
Security is a top concern at Bigfork Web Development. Your server is housed in a facility where only staff are allowed. Only Bigfork Web Development administrators have a key to fit these cabinets. All building access is logged and staff are onsite around the clock, monitoring through a network of cameras and other sensors. Routine security walkthroughs are also performed.
The connection to your server is also watched over. Should a sudden spike in activity occur, Bigfork Web Development technical staff is notified by automated monitoring software to check into the traffic just in case the server is fending off a malicious internet attack. Ask anyone who has tried to run a data room in their own offices and they'll tell you about all the work and expertise it required. Bigfork Web Development experts take the worries out of maintaining the ideal environment for your data.
Backups
All of our servers are mirrored to other servers and off-site servers to ensure that our clients have the best uptime available. Also our off-site backups offer a means by which clients can recover data in the event they accidentally delete files off of their production server. The productions servers are mirrored every morning between 2:00am and 4:00am. All production data is burned to disk twice each month.
