Web Hosting

There's a lot to be said about web hosting, but I know many of you just want to get down to business, so I'll try to organize this page in the most convenient manner possible. Let's start with the available plans and then move on to the gory details.

Packages

I currently offer two different hosting packages. The two packages are nearly identical, so let's first look at the difference between them. If you want to know the details of what the two packages offer, all you have to do is scroll down to the next section.

Package Disk Space Monthly Transfer Free Domain Monthly Price
Basic 250MB 10000MB No $2.50    Order!
Standard 1000MB 40000MB Yes $9.00    Order!

If you purchase your hosting package on an annual basis instead of monthly, there is a 16.67% discount. (Essentially, two months are free.)

What Do You Get?

Both packages come loaded with features to make your web hosting experience as comfortable as possible:

As stated above, I currently use cPanel to manage my hosting servers. Love it or hate it, it does seem to be the industry standard. I do, however, always keep looking into other options.

My Philosophy (or "Why Web Hosting?")

There are a seemingly infinite number of web hosts out there, both large and small. A disturbing trend I've noticed over the past couple of years is the inflation of the amounts of disk space and data transfer certain hosting companies are offering. It's not that more space and transfer is a bad thing, but dishonesty sure is. I've heard several stories from users who expected to have even unlimited space, until they reached some invisible wall and had their account canceled.

I'm not going to lie to you, of course. Unfortunate as it may seem, there is a wall. No host can truly offer everyone unlimited disk space or data transfer. I've chosen to take a different route with Calindora. Instead of hoping most customers don't cross my invisible line, I've chosen to offer a generous amount of space straight up, with no catches. You'll know exactly what you're getting and how much it's going to cost you. That's a peace of mind that can be as valuable as an ethereal amount of space.

Aside from that, there are a few other tenets of my hosting philosophy:

Hosting Details

That's right, here's the full disclosure regarding my hosting setup. I can't expect you to pay for hosting if you don't trust that I know what I'm doing.

Calindora currently consists of two servers, one of which is currently used for hosting client web sites. Both servers are actually virtual private servers provided by Slicehost. I have chosen virtual private servers for this task due to their much lower cost. In addition, my testing has revealed that as long as the servers aren't overcrowded, performance is more than acceptable. If a time comes when the performance is no longer acceptable, I will migrate to physical servers, but I don't expect this to occur anytime soon, if at all.

I am not sure of the limit of the number of users per server I expect to enforce, but my estimates indicate that given average users, it will most likely be around 100. For reference, some web hosts have been known to put as many as several thousand users on a single server. In any case, the exact number will be determined in such a way to keep all web sites performing well.

All user data is backed up every four hours to a remote location. Even so, I do recommend that you keep your own backups as well, since you can never be too safe with your data. cPanel provides an excellent backup tool.

If you have any additional questions regarding the details of my web hosting, don't hesitate to ask.