Website Hosting and Domain Name Services
We offer complete and competitive hosting packages for every sized website. Our hosting packages are available for business of all sizes from small personal businesses to Multi-National corporations. MirrorBall Solutions has the hosting solutions to fit your needs.
You can choose from several fantastic hosting packages or build one that works best for you and your company. With hosting packages starting at $5.99 a month, we provide reliable hosting packages to suit all budgets! Our customer service is top rated offering 24/7 live support. Get started today and let us help you answer your important website hosting questions now!
Tips for finding the right hosting company:
- Bandwidth: Ensure that there is enough bandwidth available for your website. 99% of websites never use the bandwidth they have allocated. Unless you are a site with millions of hits a day or you download and transfer data as a business, most companies will have enough bandwidth and storage for your needs.
- Uptime: It is vital that your website is online when your customers need it to be. Uptime should be no less than 99% of the time. Our servers guarantee a 99.9% uptime!
- Disk space and Backups: Disk space depends on how big a site you have with sub directories, folders and photos. Ensure there is adequate space for your needs and it is extremely important that your hosting provider offers daily backups to keep your website data safe.
- Shared IP versus Dedicated IP: Smaller websites only need a shared IP (Internet Protocol: This is the numeric address for your website!) where your IP address is shared with other sites. This does not affect your service at all as it only increases your host load capacity. Dedicated IP is a necessity for larger sites with heavy traffic. This gives them their own unique address and ability to mask that address. Either option works great. You decide on how much you want to spend.
- Email Addresses and Email Forwarding: Extremely important! Ensure that your hosting provider offers enough emails with your account to accommodate your team. At the very least you should be able to have a contact email, information email and support email address. If you need to, you can buy more addresses on the cheaper plans but most larger plans will have nearly unlimited emails. You should also be able to forward your emails to one catch all address if need be to ensure you do not miss any important emails.
- Databases, PHP and MYSQL: If you plan on running an online store, creating a mailing list or collecting data, then you will need your hosting provider to have data bases available as well as a mark up language called PHP. MYSQL and Apache are the 2 most common databases available as well as either version of PHP 4.1 or 5.1.
PHP allows your website to have dynamic content such as contact forms, memberships and online stores. PHP stores all this user information on the MYSQL or Apache database servers for later use. Almost every hosting company has these (We do!) so if your not sure, ask their customer support before you buy. - Free Stuff: You can't forget about the freebies and inclusions. These vary from company to company but the usual suspects include; email, photo galleries, forums, blog templates, website templates, open source shopping cart templates (No merchant accounts though!), CMS (content management systems) to help manage and maintain your content. Many hosting companies also offer credits for other services as well. There's a ton of free stuff out there with the right hosting company.
MirrorBall Solutions is your one stop shop for all your hosting needs.
