About Us
"A collaborative initiative to share web hosting costs between churches as well as charitable organizations"
Project Summary
Churches generally spend more than they need on web hosting. Packages available are often either oversized, or slow & outdated, or both. By means of inter-church/ charitable organization colaboration, we believe we can dramatically reduce ongoing hosting costs, while also providing a very high quality service.
Our initial investment has been close to $3000.00 in order to rent a high grade server in Michigan. Our hope is that other churches will trust us sufficiently with their web hosting needs so that we might meet our goal of shared individual costs no greater than $5 a month for each participant.
If we can meet this goal, we will attempt to meet our next goal of also licensing a high quality website design/builder package that we can include in our $5 a month package. This would enable churches to design their own websites as well as host them for a fraction of current website operating costs.
We have a believing conviction that these goals are attainable. We will maintain our committment to providing the best in its class web hosting, as well as primarily maintaing this initiative as a ministry to others. i.e. we have no economical motivation for growth, no profit margins to speak of. Our only goal is to be useful helping the Lord's work at large.
Beside our initial goal to meet expenditure costs in beginning this initiative, we would like for the momentum of this project to be carried word-of-mouth. We feel this would help us maintain a better focus on being a specifically Christian ministry. As such, web hosting packages won't appear on our sales website. In order to subscribe, you will need to receive an invitation. If you are a bible based church, please inquire about this. We would be glad to invite you to join this project, and if you have received an invitation and know others who might also be helped, please pass the invitation on to them. We would like to help as many as we can. And if you are a faith-based charitable organization, please inquire. It would be our pleasure to minister to you through this web-hosting collaborative.
Hosting Prices
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Standard - $5/month:
2.5GB website space with 5TB CDN space. Domain names for one parent organization & its child ministries, unlimited sub-domains
20GB/month anticipated bandwidth for the website, unlimited bandwidth for files hosted on the CDN
(most average churches will *more than easily* fit these constraints) -
Enhanced - $10/month:For the "over-achievers" among us if they regularly exceed bandwidth restrictions--we'll contact subscribers if this is ever needed... We are presently thinking this will be unlikely.
(We want to be fair to all users & again, ensure server speed for everyone).
Our Priorities
Efficient websites
Fastest servers
Volunteer support
Standard Features
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Turbo Server, NVMe SSD drives: Up To 20X faster page loads
- Free SSL certificates (HTTPS via Let’s Encrypt)
- CloudFlare Free CDN (Avg. 200% faster page load)
- Amazon S3 bucket for webmasters to utilize for delivering large files fast (eg. audio, video & oversized pictures)
- WordPress LiteSpeed Cache
- 99.9% Uptime Commitment (Ultra-Reliable Hosting)
- 10 Gb/s Redundant Network (for stability)
- Quadruple Redundant Network (Even if one, two or even three of our US data center links were to go down, you would remain connected)
- Perpetual Security (proactive protection against malicious hackers and security threats)
- Server Rewind Backups
- cPanel Control Panel
- Latest versions of PHP/mySQL (user selectable if an older version is needed)
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Unlimited Email accounts (Nb. It is best to set up as a forwarding/downloading service in order to conserve the allocated 2.5GB space on your server)
- Access to apache Log Files, Webalizer Visitor Statistics, AWStats, Website Statistics