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TOM STIER offers MANAGED hosting services. You can find hosting on your own for a little less than we might charge. But consider the following steps required to set up AND maintain it:
Set-up domain hosting accounts
Before you can have a site, you need a domain name. TOM STIER will help you choose the right domain name for your site. We will advise you on which registrar to choose, or you can leave all this for us to sort out.
Assign domain nameservers at the registrar
Once you have a domain name and a website you have to make sure the world will see it correctly. Glitches in this process can and do happen.
Check server performance daily
Sites always seem to go down on Friday evenings! We will be working directly with the tech team to get your site back up, usually before you even know there is a problem. Server uptime has been between 99 -100% on our hosting servers at datacenters in New Jersey and Atlanta, USA.
Set up and maintain email accounts
This is another step that our clients could do on their own through each site's CPanel admin panel. Most prefer to let us set up their accounts for them.
Set up local email software to access domain mail
Sometimes new security measures make it impossible to access email. We appreciate that it is sometimes difficult to maintain multiple email accounts.
