1. What is web hosting?

Web Hosting provides any business without a direct connection to Internet to house their own web pages (on-line) for customers to view. It provides your business a low cost Internet presence without hocking the farm. By acquiring a domain name, your business will appear as if it has its very own Internet server directly attached to the Internet . No one who views your site will know if you host or if you own your own server. In short, you can look every bit as “big” as any other company on the Internet without anyone being the wiser.

2. Is Web hosting expensive?

Web hosting is very inexpensive. In fact, it is, by far the least expensive form of advertising currently available. For as little as $15 per month, you can display your business to potential audience of over 40 million people By the end of the decade, this audience is expected to grow to over 180 million people world wide.

3. Can I design my own pages an upload them to your site?

Absolutely, if you want to do that. Some people prefer that their pages are professionally designed. But if you feel as if you wish to try to design your own pages, please do. You can upload HTML files directly to your site. Or, you can hire us to design and upload your pages for you.

4. Can I use MS FrontPage?

Yes, you can any HTML program. Dreamweaver is a popular one also.

5. What are the advantages to hosting at CloseRange?

CloseRange offers not only a high speed connection, but a very reliable and sophisticated data center where your web pages are stored. In addition to performance, reliability and security, there is also xcellent customer service, and as your business expands you can rest assured that our hosting center can provide everything you need. Take the tour of our data center, and visit our other pages at closerange.com to learn more about the advantages to hosting here.

6. Are backups performed? How often?

CloseRange servers are backed up daily. No matter whether we develop your site or not, we will keep a copy available on a Zip drive.

7. How is my server connected to the Internet?

We have multiple and redundant connections to the Internet through a high speed full optic fiber dual digital T3 connection.

8. How will my server speed compare with most other hosting services?

Well, remember we are not discussing connection speed (at your end or your visitor's end) but rather the speed of the server that hosts the data, and the speed that it can transfer it to MCI, or Sprint, or our other backbone connections. Some hosting services use ISDN connections. The majority of hosting services use a faster connection called a T1 connection. The Dual T3 connection used by CloseRange provides nearly thirty times the speed of a T1 connection. Our Redundant OC12, OC3, and DS3 Internet connectivity lines are far superior to what the majority of hosting services use to connect to Internet, and highly competitive with the fastest speeds nation-wide.

9. Will my Site slow down due to high volume traffic?

As your site becomes more successful, your site will increase its traffic dramatically. Some of our sites can receive over 500,000 hits in a single day. One of our web cam sites receives as much as one million hits in a single day!

Such heavy traffic can mean your site will begin to slow down, because every virtual server has only so much memory and CPU processes allocated to it.

Our hope is that each one of you have this problem ... of more hits than your server can handle. We can help you get there. In which case, you can celebrate the fact, along with ust, and take advantage of additional upgrades that will handle increased volume and more simultaneous users.

It's nice to know that your site can not only keep up with visitors viewing from T3 connections, but keep pace with the very fastest Internet connections anywhere, even at the world's largest companies. When you host with us, you join this elite group without having to spend big money achieving such performance. That's certainly a real plus.