Web Hosting

For your site to be accessible on the internet, you must establish a hosting account. A hosting account provides server space to store your site, its images, data and supporting files and allows access to the site via the internet.

With By His Design, you can host your site affordably and with the confidence. Our servers maintain a 99.5% uptime that is backed up by 24-7 tech support in the event of any difficulty. In the event of a problem, you can reach us live & local to ask questions and/or start a support ticket.

We offer economical hosting plans starting at just $12 per month.* All hosting plans come with unlimited email accounts or forwarders. With a few simple steps, you can configure Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express to check your email accounts. If you prefer, you can also use webmail to access your mailbox with any internet connection. See information below on Advertising Email/Spamming.

We also offer SSL certificates and encryption for e-commerce solutions and a variety of other services for your web hosting needs. Contact us today for information and assistance selecting the hosting plan and features that are right for your site and its functions.

Minimum Server Specs:

Your account will be hosted on a server with these specifications or greater: DUAL XEON 3.06 GHZ 533FSB HT (4CPU), DUAL CORE AMD OPTERON 265, Dual Low Voltage XEON 2.00Ghz, 8GB-16GB RAM, (6) 73GB SCSI 10K RPM Ultra 320 Hot-Swap Drives in a RAID5 format. With daily tape backup on servers.

Server/System Use Policies:

TRAFFIC/BANDWIDTH: By His Design is pleased to offer our clients unlimited traffic/hits, and server usage. Unlimited Traffic/Hits refers to the number of visitors to your website, NOT the amount of bandwidth/data transfer. Your account is still limited to the allotted bandwidth/data transfer included with your selected package. To maintain the integrity of our service the following traffic/usage limitations apply.

Sites with banners, graphics or cgi's running from their domain being used on other domains.
Sites with immense graphic archives or galleries.
Sites offering immense download archives, such as .zip, .tar, .ra and .GZ.
Sites running large chat room gatherings.
Sites using more than 20% of system resources

If you do not qualify for unlimited traffic/hits, your account may be required to be upgraded, or, we may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing... Bandwidth/data transfer will go unmonitored until you reach your account limit, then normal over-usage data transfer costs will apply.

ADVERTISING EMAIL/SPAMMING: Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from our servers or using an email address that is maintained on our servers is STRICTLY prohibited. For general reference, we consider spam any email that is sent to more than 10 people at a time that did not ask for it to be sent to them. To avoid problems in this area and potential blacklisting, it is advisable to utilize a third party email service for bulk and advertising emails.

Opt-In email is acceptable, as long as Opt-Out/Removal request are fully honored. Please make an effort to limit outgoing mail on your account to no more than 20 pieces per minute. For example, pushing 250 emails in a single hit causes excessive server loads and degrades access to server services. Large mailings are preferred to be sent from the hours of 12AM - 8AM EST. Sites with large mailing databases, may need to be placed on a dedicated server or VPS platform.

*Economy hosting plans are prorated at set up and then billed annually.