SERVICES: Web Hosting
Wtih Web Hosting, there’s more to consider than bandwidth
Many web hosting companies won’t want to admit it, but not all servers are equal. At Bear Creek Web, we had the foresight to strategically locate ours at the data center in Seattle, Washington. It’s a stable position right on the Internet backbone, in one of the premier telecom hubs in the nation.
Our web hosting servers are built around high-end, name-brand equipment and we do everything humanly possible to maximize our performance, our uptime, and your security. Backups are performed daily, and we constantly test our own ability to restore data should it be required.
Number-crunchers will be happy to know that we provide some of the most robust and detailed Web statistical packages anywhere.
A difference that’s anything but virtual
When the goal is to provide results for our clients, the question is never how to do it cheaper; it’s how to do it better. So while other web hosting companies keep their hardware and software costs to a minimum and share resources among as many customers as possible, our philosophy is different. We do what makes sense for our clients.
For example, we strictly enforce a maximum of no more than 30 sites on one web server. And we’re constantly on the lookout for new hardware and software that will increase our clients’ security and the performance of their web sites.
We‘ve also created our own private VLAN.
Our commitment to superior quality web hosting and email hosting gives our clients a distinct advantage in online community-building as well as in the competition for page views, repeat visitors and conversions.
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The Benefits of VLAN
Our VLAN provides these key benefits:
- Dramatically improved performance between the web server and database server so that web pages load with lightning speed
- Increased database security because the database server (SQL Server 2000) is pushed back off the Internet. For e-commerce sites and corporate back-ends, this will provide tremendous peace of mind
- Faster web sites, even for those without databases, because network latency is vastly reduced
A Cisco PIX 515 Firewall protects all of our equipment that is placed on the VLAN. This decreases the likelihood of your site suffering costly downtime due to hacking, Denial of Service Attacks or viruses. It also allows us to log any attempts at security compromises and respond with appropriate action. Additionally, we can preemptively block major threats such as CodeRed, Bugbear, and Nimda before they even reach the web server.