Secure Hosting Services
Skimping here is not worth the risk
How and where you host your Web site is critical to your online success. Your Web site should be available, always. It should be as reliable as the sun rising in the East.
Hosting your site on something other than the best, most secure server configuration is not worth the risk. Yes, you'll pay more than $19.95 per month, but the peace of mind is well worth the extra monthly cost. Consider this all-to-common scenario:
Your CEO calls you at home, irate. She was showing your site to some colleagues and was greeted with SERVER ERROR 500 instead of a home page.
Your reply? "Yes, but I saved the company $50 a month on server fees."
Consider these questions when researching hosting:
- What other sites are hosted on the server? Is your Web site grouped with controversial sites or sites with questionable content?
- How many other Web sites are hosted on the server? What happens to your response time if another site gets "slammed" with traffic?
- Where is your server located? Is it in a secure, Tier-1 Hosting facility or a vendor's office?
- Does your vendor own or license the complete server, or only a small part of a larger machine managed by another company?
- Who has access to the machine?
Imaginary Landscape Hosting = Peace of Mind
Imaginary Landscape hosts Web sites in Tier-1 server facilities - the best-of-the-best. Sites are hosted on state-of-the-art servers located in secure network centers across the country. The servers have tightly controlled access and are monitored 24/7 by a technical staff to provide a safe and reliable home for your Web site.
As a major site developer, all our work is done with the highest regard to data security. In twelve years of operation, our Web sites have never been hacked or disabled due to virus attacks.
As the caretakers of your Web presence, it is important to us - so you don't have to think about it.
Imaginary Landscape partners with the best hosting facility in the world. We lease whole computers, configuring and actively managing them with deep systems administration expertise. By partnering with the best, we offer our clients peace of mind that includes:
- Flexibility to address all hosting needs, from small "virtual" servers to multi-location server clustering.
- Flexibility to address all Web site needs, including the ability to install and utilize third-party software if appropriate.
- We host only our clients. If your site is on a shared machine, it is shared with a limited number of our clients and not hundreds of unknown sites.
- Secure hosting facility, including:
- Redundant power
- Redundant, lightning-fast connection to multiple backbones
- Biometric-controlled access to datacenter
- Redundant climate control
- 24/7/365 technician monitoring
Imaginary Landscape technical staff is expert in both UNIX and Microsoft platforms. We configure Web server computers based upon the most appropriate platform for client needs. By focusing on the client and not the platform, we are able to offer the highest level of flexibility.
Imaginary Landscape monitors and proactively reacts to security reports provided by system software vendors, as well as the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). All available security and related patches and updates are tested and applied immediately upon availability.
Imaginary Landscape creates two virtual servers for our clients - one server will be used for the live Web site and one will be used for development.
Included with hosting are the following benefits:
- Extensive online reporting of Web site traffic.
- Tape backup services.
- Registration of new domain name, if required.
- Management and yearly renewal of an existing VeriSign-registered domain name. Domains registered with other registrars will need to be transferred. Staff time required to transfer domains to VeriSign is not included and will be invoiced on a time-and-materials basis.
- Registration, management and annual renewal of secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate for securing Web pages.
- Secure FTP access, upon request.
- 100 MB of storage and 1 GB of monthly bandwidth.
Additional hosting services are available upon request, including management of internal servers, dedicated servers, load balancing and more.
