Innovative, Reliable, Affordable Web Hosting

Hosting is an absolutely integral part of building a website.

What is Hosting?
In essence hosting is a remote computer server that stores your website files to be viewed by the public. Every website you've ever visited is hosted on a server.

Hosting is a separate service in addition to developing websites that we provide our clients. Therefore, it has additional costs. A hosting company, or, as we like to think of it, hosting partner is a vital step to delivering your website to your customers. You want to make sure you are usiing a reputable, reliable, hosting company.

Like with all web services, you pay for what you get.

Our hosting services are innovative and provide you with top quality service and reliability. We believe in being a "one-stop-shop" when it comes to web services. Therefore, we pride ourselves in managing all your web needs in one place and isn't that peace of mind what you've been looking for!?

Think of hosting as your most valuable "silent partner." Part of your monthly hosting costs ensures that your website always be available to the public with no down time. There are many factors to consider when choosing a web host but you must also consider the type of traffic you plan to drive to the website. For example, if you have a simple plumbing business your needs for a host would be very different than a popular website such as Amazon.com which has a huge customer base. A larger product based site would need a host that could handle large amounts of traffic at once and not overload the system.

Vinci-Designs Cloud Sites offers a range of hosting options for every possible configuration from small business all the way to a robust eCommerce solution. We also can provide as many email accounts as our customers need. We also install Google Analytics throughout your site to help track traffic and leads from your website. If you are intersted in learning more or signing up for our hosting services we encourage you to read more about it on our site.

Benefits of Vinci-Designs Cloud Hosting

Cloud Sites vs. Dedicated Hosting

On Vinci-Designs Cloud Sites, all the hardware is handled for you. We monitor, patch, and supports the entire platform. A large group of servers powers each site and if one fails, its removed automatically with no work on your part. Isn't it nice to know you won't get a 911 call in the middle of the night about a hard drive dying??

With other hosts who use Dedicated Hosting, its typical for these host to put a server online for you and provide you access to it, but you need to play a major role in ensuring the health and uptime of the hardware. It's a lot to manage and for almost all our clients, it is too much of a distraction and takes away from your ability to affectively run your business.

Expansion and Scaling on Cloud Sites vs. Dedicated Hosting

One of the greatest features of Vinci-Designs Cloud Sites is that it scales automatically. A traffic spike to the any of our hosted sites just means more servers are working to handle all the requests. Nothing additional is required by our clients.

With hosts who use Dedicated Hosting Solutions, sudden popularity or traffic to your site can pretty much overwhelm a single server and take your site offline in a short period of time.

Storage with Cloud Sites vs. Dedicated Hosting

Files on Vinci-Designs Cloud Sites are served from redundant, enterprise NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. With redundant drives, controllers, and power supplies, the likelihood of us experiencing data loss or unavailability is greatly reduced.

With Dedicated Server Hosting, most servers, especially on the lower end of the cost spectrum have just a single hard drive. Even if there's a backup, it can take hours for your site to be restored if that one drive fails. If professionalism and reliability are key factors in your website's online presence why would you ever risk this amount of downtime?

Support With Vinci-Designs Cloud Hosting vs. Dedicated Hosting Competitors

Since all our hosting clients, house their sites on on our cloud platform architected and built by Vinci-Designs, we are intimately familiar with the technology involved and provide an amazing level of support. We truly are one vendor that handles any problem first hand without passing it off.

With Dedicated Hosting, since you manage your server cooperatively with the hosting provider, it's harder for them to provide support. Often, they are coming into your environment blind to how you have it set up. To keep costs down, most providers have only ticket support, forgoing the live 24x7 support that Vinci-Designs can provide.

Hosting Q&A

Below are some commonly asked questions about hosting and we are happy to provide our customers with as much information as possible to make informed decisions.

What does Vinci-Designs Cloud Hosting use for a storage system? Have you done anything to make it redundant?

Nothing as important as your website should be served from a single hard drive, but you'd be surprised by how many web hosts have little more redundancy than a pair of crossed fingers. We're different and for good reason. The advanced architecture powering our hosting solution uses groups of high-performance, network attached storage devices to reliably serve every web page, and image. Inside each storage device, drives are mirrored to each other in a RAID configuration to create a first level of redundancy. And, as a final precautionary measure, all data on the system is automatically backed up on a repeating schedule.

How often does the Vinci-Designs Cloud backup information?

The entire Cloud Sites FTP structure is backed up every four hours, which totals six daily backups. Those backups are rolled into a nightly backup, which are retained for two days. However, these backups are for disaster recovery on the server side. If for any reason a storage node on our side were to crash, our backups will be there to replace any lost data.

Note: That said, we recommend that you make periodic backups of your site and data to your local computer since we are unable to extract an individual site's data from the nightly backups. If you need a backup of your MySQL or MS SQL databases, they can be exported through our online utilities (MySQL or MS SQL) or by connecting directly to the servers using desktop software.

What version of Linux does Cloud Sites™ run? What about for Windows?

The Linux side of our platform is built on Debian 4.0 (Etch) and Red Hat Enterprise Server. On the other side of the fence, the Windows platform runs on Windows 2008 and IIS 7.

Tech Specs

Run Linux or Windows (Or Even Both)

Behind Vinci-Designs Cloud Sites, cabinets full of both Linux servers and Windows servers power an unlimited number of websites and applications we host for our customers. Every Windows-based page is served from clusters built and optimized especially for Windows, and every Linux-based page is served from clusters built and optimized especially for Linux.

We use advanced load-balancing technologies to automatically detect the type of technology you are running and route each request to the proper pool of servers. This is a great example of the power of cloud computing, since you no longer have to make a hosting choice between Linux and Windows. Both LAMP and .NET are included, allowing you to choose the technology you need site by site (or even page by page). The best part is that the cloud technology that can power both will probably cost you less than even one server of either type.

Will your site or application run on Vinci-Designs Cloud Sites?
Most popular apps like Wordpress, Drupal, and .NETNuke run really well. If you have a question about your own code or needs, we can answer ANY questions you might have!

Powerful Load Balancing

The older and more common way to host websites is to load as many as will fit onto one server. Vinci-Designs Cloud Sites is different, because your sites and applications are loaded across large pools of servers, and the traffic you receive is balanced out to entire fleets of servers.

It's the technology large, popular sites use to stay online because it solves two important problems. First, if a server fails, the other servers in the pool can continue to respond to requests for your site, and visitors often never notice a problem. Secondly, when your site gets suddenly popular, all the traffic being received can easily overwhelm a single server and ruin your moment in the spotlight. But our large server pools can (and do) handle billions of requests for millions of visitors each and every day.

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