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This overview of our basic Internet Site Hosting services (which we have been providing and supporting since the early- to mid-1990s) should serve as a general starting point for hosting your web site.  Since requirements vary with each project, customization may be required.  A commercial hosting package typically starts at CAD$840.00 per year (please contact us for pricing information because your needs are probably unique).

Full backups are performed regularly, as a part of our disaster recovery precautions.  Data is stored off site and checked regularly as a protective measure against natural disasters and other unexpected destructive events.

Our Debian (Linux) systems, which consistently provide first-class boringly-reliable high-performance efficiency, route through redundant high-speed internet backbones, that ensure your web site is fast even during peak times.

Our up-to-date equipment includes more system resources than are required because your data, and its high-performance delivery, is important to us.  The success of your business depends on reliable systems that are optimized to handle heavy loads, which is why we rely on secure, reliable, efficient, high-quality solutions on Debian Linux:

• Apache Web Server is the best managed Open Source cross-platform web server projects in the world, and has gained the respect of web site managers from all regions of the world for its scalability, security, and total reliability, plus much more, ever since its inception in the early 1990s.  The product quality and flexibility provided by Apache far exceeds that of other commercial web server offerings, and we believe that this is partly due to the large number of open source software developers scrutinizing every aspect of it.
   
• PostgreSQL is the database engine we've chosen because along with its seemingly limitless scalability (over 512 petabytes / 536,870,912 gigabytes), it also offers instantaneous response times for the vast majority of the queries it executes, particularly when its internally optimized codebase compliments proper database design.  The performance and reliability that PostgreSQL Server provides has consistently exceeded our needs in the testing we've done, and has more than proven itself with ease in production environemnts.
   
• Postfix SMTP Server is a high-performance RFC-compliant SMTP server that integrates well with Dovecot, PosgreSQL, SpamAssassin, and is customizable with Perl, BASH, and other popular scripting languages commonly used in system administration.  By implementing customizations in PostgreSQL and Perl, scalability is achieved while maintaining strict security and high-performance, and flexibility with domain, address, and alias management of eMail accounts that follows our way of maintaining large systems.  Since each eMail message is stored as a separate file (in Maildir format) we enjoy greater overall reliability with less administrative overhead.
   
• Dovecot POP3 and IMAP4 Server is a high-performance RFC-compliant POP3/IMAP4 server that integrates well with Postfix, PostgreSQL, and is customizable with PostgreSQL.  By implementing customizations in PostgreSQL, everyone benefits from its scalability, security, high-performance (due to its built-in message indexing and other efficiency-focused functionality), and flexibility with domain, address, and alias management of eMail accounts that follows our way of maintaining large systems.  Since each eMail message is stored as a separate file (in Maildir format) we enjoy greater overall reliability with less administrative overhead.
   
• Intel CPUs, motherboards, and network adapters have provided us with both reliability and optimal performance.  To avoid possible reliability problems, we don't overclock our CPUs (a common practice amongst hobbyists and video game fans who prefer speed and typically aren't as concerned about reliability).

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