SOS Website Hosting

True to our nature, our website hosting plan is very simple. As far as features go, there is just one plan - all the space you need.

We'll set up a hosting account for your domain.  You can have as many pages and website images as you want. We don't limit the size of your site.

Below are the actual cost details, based on whether the hosting is ordered for an existing domain or during domain registration.

So, no matter how you look at it, your annual website cost is very little.

Is our hosting right for you?

Our hosting service is perfect from many domain owners, and but not everyone. That's the honest truth. We'll tell you what we offer and what we don't so you can make a judgment about your needs.

We've been hosting websites since 1998. We've always offered very simple, low-tech features on extremely reliable servers. Our servers are housed in Manhattan in a secure, well connected, climate controlled datacenter, with power backup in the case of an energy emergency. We keep our servers lightly loaded so they are never bogged down handling the load that's placed on them.

So, if you have a "normal" HTML website with lots for pages and pictures, we have just what you need - high reliability, simple format, plenty of space. 

Each hosting account has a built-in WYSIWYG website editor for creating.  Plus a filemanager for uploading your website files. You don't have to use either, but they're available at any time. 

You'll also find a cgi-bin folder so you can add executable scripts for things like submission forms.  PHP is available for those who need a scripting language.

What we don't offer...

We purposely don't offer high tech items like databases.

We don't allow large file downloads/videos/MP3's on our servers. (You can still host your website with us and link to your file downloads in places where that's the norm - venues like youtube, myspace, etc..)

The reason for these restrictions is that each of these CAN put a very intensive load on our system.  Either through high usage or misuse.

When either occurs, it can hog up server resources, slowing down server responsiveness for the rest of our hosting customers. That's not acceptable.  We place a high priority on having responsive, lightly loaded servers.

Our years of website hosting experience have defined our hosting niche. Domain customers with normal-needs sites will benefit from our simple offering and highly responsive, dependable servers. Domain customers with high website needs are best served by one of the many website hosts out there who offer everything but the kitchen sink in their hosting packages. Either way, you can manage your domain with us. But in terms of website hosting, we want to see each customer end up with a service that matches their needs.

Your website and our server...

You can hire a professional to design and upload your website to our server, or you can do that all yourself, perhaps with the help of an employee, a friend or a family member. Options for doing it yourself include:

• writing your own HTML code
• using any of the common website editors available for your computer, like Dreamweaver or Kompozer
• developing and maintaining your site using our built-in WYSIWYG editor

WYSIWYG?

WYSIWYG refers to What You See Is What You Get. It's a visual method of building a website. In this case, you use a browser while logged into our server, rather than using a piece of software on your computer. You make each webpage look the way you want and save the result directly into your account on our server. The HTML is totally hidden in the background, although you can click a button at any time to see and edit it directly, if you know HTML programming.

If you login to your account with us, you can click the HELP link to the SOS Website Hosting section to see a user manual created specifically for our WYSIWYG editor. (If you don't have an SOS account with us yet, you can go to the Login page and create one. It's free!) It tells you all about the editor, explaining button by button how to create results.

To anyone familiar with using common word processors, you can start building immediately. The guide will help you through any rough spots.

For those new to word processing, the guide walks you though the steps to get you up and running, building your own website content within minutes. Our editor is not as powerful and slick as an expensive piece of software like Dreamweaver, but it has a lot of capabilities -- more than enough for most people who are building their own site.

Compared to Dreamweaver, our editor

• is a lot simpler to use
• can be accessed from any computer on the internet
• has an integrated filemanager to upload the new and edited files to the server
• is FREE!

To order...

Just login to your account with us and go to the SOS Website Hosting section.  Your username is your email address. 

If you don't have an SOS account, simply use the Your SOS Account link above and create one.  It's free.