What is Supervised Web Site Hosting?

First of all, standard hosting is a service of placing your web site on the internet so that the world has access to your pages, images, forms and information. This involves paying a "provider" to place your web site on a computer called a "server" and to provide access of all your information to the world through an internet connection. It's as though you have a showroom that displays your products or services (web site), and need a location/building (hosting) in which to present the showroom to visitors and customers.

Because the internet is new to many of us, you may not be aware that where your web site is hosted is as valuable as where you would locate your business in the physical world.

In the physical world you're use to making considerations such as: kind of building, environment, safety, maintenance, ease and speed of access to the public, parking, lighting, etc.

In the cyberspace world there are just as many, or even more considerations, as finding a location for your business within a city. However, because it is invisible and works behind the scenes, we may not take them into account at first. However, if a poor selection is made the impact on your business may be just as severe as selecting a building on a side street, in a bad neighborhood, far from a freeway access, frequent electrical blackouts, and on the 20th floor without an elevator. Actually, it could even be worse than that and it is highly recommended that you read, "But what could possibly go wrong with my hosting service?"

Supervised Web Site Hosting is a term the founder coined years ago when this service was first offered by Design Affect. It basically means that we will do the hunting, evaluating, monitoring, trouble-tracking, and all the many actions necessary to give you incredibly good hosting for your web site. We supervise your hosting so that your web site is always perfoming at it's best without you having to take the time to even learn all about the technical world of servers, operating systems, performance criteria, maintenance factors, upgrades, programming, special languages, etc. And, you don't have to spend your time monitoring your site to see that nothing is going wrong such as degraded speed, poor access time, non-availability or other items that may affect your web site's success.

How does it work?

Cliff Durfee, the founder of Design Affect, realized years ago when he first started developing web sites as a service, that the quality, performance and even development cost of the web site was greatly influenced by the choice of the hosting service provider. Many of his clients were at a loss to choose good hosting services and though they were often tempted by the so called "FREE" services or unbelievably cheap fees offered by some, they were smart enough in business to know "You get what you pay for." Of course, along with that is the knowledge you don't want to over pay either.

With much research, Cliff continues to locate the best hosting capabilities he can find using his years of experience. He contracts/leases space from the selected provider and the sublets space to his clients. This provider gives him outstanding technical support and response with a requirement that he is the liason between the final client and them. This saves them time because they are not bothered by a multitude of questions from novice/beginners, they deal with one person that is doing bulk purchasing. They in turn give Cliff discounted prices.

This works out to be a win-win for everyone involved. The provider sells in bulk and lowers the number of people they have to deal with directly. Design Affect benefits by reselling discounted space with enough margin to make it reasonable. The end client, hopefully you, benefits in getting outstanding hosting, service, reliability, and speed at a very reasonable rate. And, it minimizes taking your valuable time to monitor, select, track things down, trouble shoot, and perhaps even worry whether you're losing business or not because of poor hosting-- not to mention the actual costs of losing business should your choice of a hosting provider turn out less than wise.