Why do we require that you host with us?

You may be asking why you cannot choose your own hosting provider.  This comes up because there are hosting providers offering lower monthly rates, or because you already have your site hosted elsewhere.

We require that you host with us because our custom websites provide you with the ability to perform the following tasks directly from your web browser:

• Edit the content of your websiteAadd or remove pages
• Automatically generate new page links on your navigation bar
• Automatically update site map page when you modify/add/delete pages
• Generate special feature pages by the server

On top of this we also:

• Backup all web changes you make on a nightly basis
• Dynamically notify the search engines of your changes via sitemaps or rss feeds

To provide all this, the HTML of your pages is dynamically generated by the server, based on the custom layout files and your page content, which is stored in a database on that server.  We do NOT use web page development applications (such as Adobe's Dreamweaver) to update web pages on your site.  This would defeat the ability to provide you with dynamic page editing and management.

Our PHP web application could be installed on another server but this is not cost effective for small websites.  The web application requires a PHP/MySQL/Apache environment and we can't be certain that every hosting provider has the versions of these known to work well.  On top of this, we have tools to setup your site and do the backup of changes that depend on known services at known ports being available on the server.  The extra costs to do all this only make sense when your site is large enough to require a dedicated server.

All that said, we are website experts and can help you with your website problems in your own environment.  When we work this way, we simply work for you at our hourly rate and can't quote an amount to solve a problem until we understand your particular web hosting environment.