After a site is designed, it must be stored, or hosted, on a web server to publish it on the Internet. A good web server keeps your site visible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so customers can interact with your site anytime that is convenient for them.

Finding A Good Home
How do you tell the difference between a good web host and a bad one? Well, as the old adage goes, you usually get what you pay for. If you search around you'll find a bunch of cheap, or even free, web hosting services out there, and while they might be fine for "Joe's Hobby Page", they won't cut it for a serious business web site. How quickly can you expect someone who your not paying to respond when there's a problem with your page? You'll be lucky if you can get anyone on the phone at all. And what if a server crashes and your page disappears? Did your host have a backup? After a crash is not a good time to find the answer to that question! There are several other areas to consider as well. Does the host have an adequate firewall to protect its sites from attacks and theft? Do they have a secure, or encrypted, server and how secure is it? How fast and reliable is their connection to the Internet? What happens if their server is under a heavy load?

At Webbsite, Inc., we're not just running a web hosting service out of a garage. Our office is staffed between the hours of 8:00 and 5:00 CDT five days a week, and our servers are monitored seven days a week. When you call with a question or problem, you'll get a live person and a quick solution instead of a recording. Our server is protected by a WatchGaurd Firebox™, the leader in firewall technology, and our secure server uses SSL encryption and is certified by VeriSign. A backup of all of our sites is made nightly, and our backup rotation covers the last two weeks at any given time. We also create an archive of all of our server data monthly, so we can retrieve information that is months old if needed. Our connection to the Internet is flexible allowing us to upgrade the amount of information our servers can handle at any time. We monitor the load on our servers daily, and if the sustained load is over 50% of capacity, we upgrade within 48 hours to ensure that we continue to provide fast, efficient access to our sites.

Advanced Hosting Services
In addition to simply publishing your site on the Internet, Webbsite also gives you the tools to measure your site's effectiveness and productivity. WebTrends™ and WebPosition™ reports are included in all of our hosting packages, so you can obtain easy to read information about your site including usage statistics and charts, a list of the most popular areas of your site, demographic information about the people who are using your site, how and where people are finding out about your site, and more! This information will help you decide where your money will be best spent to increase the success of your site and your business. And we monitor these same statistics in order to improve your site on an ongoing basis.

The bottom line is this: Webbsite, Inc. is committed to providing the best Web hosting service you will find anywhere. We don't just build web sites and host them as a sideline; Internet marketing is our primary focus. We stay in touch with our clients, and we keep our finger on the pulse of the web sites we host. You simply won't find another company which will take care of your web site as well as we will.