Reliable, affordable website hosting is critical for the success of an organization's website project. The problem is that the hosting market is saturated; there are literally thousands of website hosting companies available, offering packages ranging from cheap (or even free!) up to hundreds of dollars per month.

The Problem

This makes it difficult for nonprofits to select a suitable hosting provider. Selecting the wrong hosting company results in excessive site downtime, missing email, unexplained glitches, and slow (or absent!) customer support, while eating hundreds or even thousands of dollars from your website development budget. We'd rather put your budget toward new functionality or a better design than waste it investigating and fixing issues related to your hosting company.

Our Solution

To address this, we're working with Rackspace to introduce a nonprofit website hosting program. Rackspace has the industry reputation of being the best of the best. Our hosting service takes their higher-priced infrastructure and support and breaks it down into smaller packages more suitable (and affordable) for our nonprofit clients. This means that our clients can pay for just the hosting they need, without compromising on what is literally the best technical support in the industry.

You benefit from world-class hosting infrastructure located in secure, top of the line datacenters. You also have access to a dedicated team of Rackspace support engineers 24/7/365, by phone, chat, or email. And of course, your team always has access to one of our project managers if the support issue is related to your website project itself, or if you just want a familiar face involved in getting something resolved.

What does it cost?

For most of our nonprofit clients, we anticipate offering our hosting service at between $10 and $20 per month for website hosting and email support, with options for additional support / maintenance / upgrade contracts for ongoing projects. Hosting is customized to your project's needs, but will offer state-of-the-art features including an online control panel, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited email accounts, generous storage and bandwidth quotas, and support for popular web scripting / programming languages and frameworks. We'll never nickel and dime you on features; you'll get what you need to make your website successful.

Let us know if this is something you'd be interested in! We're still ironing out the details, but the first few clients to sign on and help us test the system will definitely get the best rates :)