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We recommend hosting with Sonic.net. 

We can sign you up directly with them if you prefer, or we can bundle their cost into your total hosting/design retainer fee.  Here are the features of their product:

Service	Storage	Bandwidth	Mailboxes	Monthly	Order
Basic Details	15000 Megabytes	150 Gigabytes	150	$19.95	Details
An IP-based virtual host on Sonic.net's web cluster. Includes shell and FTP access, MySQL database service.
Value Details	5000 Megabytes	50 Gigabytes	50	$9.95	Details
A name-based virtual host on Sonic.net's web cluster. Includes shell and FTP access.
DNS Details	None	None	None	$1.95	Details
DNS-only hosting service. Allows for domain email alias management and can be pointed to any static IP address (including DSL service or a Basic Hosting service). Included with Value and Basic Hosting.

 

Infrastructure

Sonic.net web hosting uses multiple, fully-redundant servers that are configured identically. This provides two primary benefits:

• Load Distribution: with multiple servers, very high traffic loads have far less impact. This allows for fast pageloads and CGI functionality even when thousands of people are visiting your site.
• Reliability: in the event of hardware failure on a single system, the other systems will automatically "pick up the slack" and process web requests without interruption.

Many hosting providers will store a number of customers' websites on a single server. In the event that a single process ties up that single server's CPU, or a hardware problem (disk failure, power outage, etc.), all sites hosted on that server would be knocked offline. Multiple redundant, load-balanced servers makes a total outage phenomenally unlikely.

Disk Snapshots

Sonic.net maintains hourly and nightly "snapshots" of customer web directories. This provides a vital safety net during site updates, allowing a web publisher to quickly and accurately revert a page to a previous state.

Scripting Environment

Sonic.net's web servers provide a number of resources for advanced web programming:

• Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
• PHP version 4.4.7 (view current info)
• PHP version 5.2.1 available as CGI (view current info)
• Perl 5.6.1 (view current info)
• Microsoft Frontpage 2003 Server Extensions
• MySQL 4.1.16