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 frequently results in excessive site downtime, missing email, unexplained glitches, and slow (or absent!) customer support. On the other hand, the hosting companies who have a reputation in the web development community for providing top-notch service and outstanding technical infrastructure are generally priced far out of reach of most nonprofit organizations, who don't need more than a fraction of that kind of high-powered offering.

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.

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 :)