Specifically designed for the small business web site, our GOLD HOST plan places your
site on one of our special GOLD HOST servers. These are private servers
dedicated solely to our GOLD HOST web sites and designed for maximum availability
at minimum cost.
Are you a good or bad neighbor?
When hosting a site, you have two choices: using a dedicated server or 'sharing' a
server. Dedicated servers are not cost effective for a small business just starting
to put a presence on the web. Because of the expense, most small business opt for
"shared hosting" or "virtual hosting". Shared hosting is more economical because
the cost of the server is spread out over the many web sites placed on that server.
For a shared hosting to be effective, all web sites on a given server must be good
neighbors and not monopolize the server. When one or more web sites are 'bad neighbors',
the web server slows down, may become unreliable, or even may crash. This means your
web site's availability is at the mercy of the other sites which share the server.
Why GO GOLD?
Why should you consider AKA Systems GOLD HOSTing?
- Limited number of web sites per server
- Most shared hosting arrangements place hundreds of web sites on a single server.
Our GOLD HOST server accounts are restricted to less then 50 GOLD HOST sites per server.
This reduces the chance of having a 'bad neighbor' and ensures that there are plenty of
server resources available to run your site fast.
- High level of personal assistance
- GOLD HOST also means GOLD SERVICE. When you put your site on our GOLD HOST, we toss in
all sorts of personal assistance. This means we'll handle domain registration issues,
configure your email accounts for you, and make sure we yell and scream right away if
something by chance goes wrong.
- Additional comfort
- While the hosting company monitors the server, our GOLD HOST servers have additional
monitoring which instantly pages our AKA Systems on-duty tech. We know
whenever the server is unavailable and can take corrective steps immediately.
- Free Consultations
- Do you have a questions such as "How do I promote my site", "is this a good page design",
"how can I make money with my site?" If so, GOLD HOST clients can actually submit
questions to the AKA Systems Internet technologies consulting team for answers for FREE.
They won't help you develop your complete marketing plan or do your website for you, but they
will address specific questions, over suggestions, and just generally point you in the right direction.
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GOLD HOST Features
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- All this for $19.95!
- 30 Mb of disc storage
(enough for 400 pages!)
- 3 GB monthly transfer
(enough for 38,000 visitors!)
- 20 POP3 Email accounts
- 20 POP3 Email Aliases
- Browser based access to email for remote access 'on the road'
- No Setup Fee
- Access to raw log stats
- Daily stats from ANALOG
- Windows NT 2000
- Unlimited FTP updates
- GOLD HOST site monitoring
- GOLD HOST consultations
- Restricted CGI
- One time submission to all major search engines and directories
- Terms and Conditions!
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What is the catch?
When choosing GOLD HOST, you give up your ability to create and install advanced web
scripting options which you have available with the other hosting plans. Our experience
has shown us that bad use of ASP, CGI, PHP, and other 'server based' programming is the
main reason web sites become 'bad neighbors'.
To prevent 'bad neighbors' on GOLD HOST servers, only AKA Systems consultants are allowed
to install server based programming on GOLD HOST accounts. There are many scripts which
we install for free (guest book, form mailing, etc). Other scripting will be quoted
for you prior to being installed.
GOLD HOST web sites are still free to make use of all the client-side (JavaScript) programming
they want along with FLASH and other technologies.
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