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In April 2009 we launched our new Cloud Hosting featuring several new hosting plans that include more disk space and bandwidth at a lower price. Here is more information on our new cloud hosting service and the advantages it offers over our standard web hosting services. If you are an existing customer, here’s more information on how to move over to our cloud hosting. All information related to our cloud hosting services can be found over on our new website laughingsquid.us.

New Cloud Hosting Plans

new customers should select from these plans

Micro Squid – $6/month

1 GB of disk space 25 GB of monthly bandwidth 500 compute cycles per month 1 MySQL databases 10 email accounts 1 GB of email storage per mailbox plus all these standard features

more info on our new cloud hosting service

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Mega Squid – $8/month

2 GB of disk space 75 GB of monthly bandwidth 1000 compute cycles per month 3 MySQL databases 25 email accounts 1 GB of email storage per mailbox plus all these standard features

more info on our new cloud hosting service

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Ultra Squid – $12/month

3 GB of disk space 150 GB of monthly bandwidth 1500 compute cycles per month 5 MySQL databases 50 email accounts 1 GB of email storage per mailbox plus all these standard features

more info on our new cloud hosting service

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Super Squid – $16/month

4 GB of disk space 200 GB of monthly bandwidth 2000 compute cycles per month 5 MySQL databases 50 email accounts 1 GB of email storage per mailbox plus all these standard features

more info on our new cloud hosting service

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Forwarding Squid – $3/month

25 GB of monthly bandwidth 500 compute cycles per month 10 email accounts 1 GB of email storage per mailbox plus all these standard features

more info on our new cloud hosting service

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Standard Hosting Plans

these legacy plans are on our old hosting system which is being phased out

Tiny Squid – $8/month

300 MB of disk space 50 MB of email storage 20 GB of monthly bandwidth 5 email accounts 20 email redirects 5 mail groups 5 email autoresponders 5 web users 1 MySQL database plus all these standard features

 

Basic Squid – $11/month

600 MB of disk space 75 MB of email storage 40 GB of monthly bandwidth 20 email accounts 40 email redirects 15 mail groups 15 email autoresponders 15 web users 2 MySQL database plus all these standard features

 

Giant Squid – $14/month

1 GB of disk space 150 MB of email storage 60 GB of monthly bandwidth 30 email accounts 80 email redirects 25 mail groups 25 email autoresponders 25 web users 3 MySQL database plus all these standard features

 

Standard Features

The following features are included with all of our hosting plans (except where noted):

• Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (operating system) and Apache 2.2 (webserver)
• our servers are located at Rackspace’s world-class data centers
• RAID Level 10 hard drive mirroring
• full weekly and daily differential, remote data backups of the server to tape, with a four week retention
• Parallels Plesk web-based control panel
• email accounts
• browser-based access to email via webmail
• email aliases
• SpamAssassin 3.0 spam filters
• FTP access
• PHP 5.2 with Zend Optimzer
• MySQL 4.1 or MySQL 5.0
• phpMyAdmin
• CGI with your own cgi-bin
• Perl, Python & Tcl
• SSI
• web-based file manager
• directory password protection through the control panel
• domains work with and without preceding “www”
• detailed, graphical web stat reports
• access to log files
• SSL & SSL Certificate management
• custom error pages
• use of custom mime types
• the ability to change the default page
• Apache module mod_rewrite enabled by default

NOTE: We do not provide any access to the internet such as dial-up service, DSL, cable and so on. You will still need to have the means to connect to the internet to access and update a website that we host for you.

 

Disk Space

Disk space (storage) is the total amount of space that is used by all of the files associated with your site, including log files and MySQL databases. Email storage is a separate quota. You will automatically receive an email from the server when you exceed your disk space quota. The email will be sent to the email address that is associated with your control panel.

Additional disk space will automatically be billed at $1.00 per additional 100 MB (rounded to up to the next 100 MB block) each month that exceeds the storage quota associated with your hosting plan. There is a 1 GB (1024 MB) maximum disk space per domain, we do not host websites larger than 1 GB. If you are on our Tiny Squid or Basic Squid plan and you think that you are going to be consistently over your quota you might consider upgrading to our Giant Squid plan.

If you are looking for more disk space, the hosting plans on our new cloud hosting service range from 1GB-4GB of disk space.

 

Bandwidth (Traffic)

Bandwidth is the total amount of data transferred from the server each month and this number increases as your website is accessed more often. The more visitors you have, the greater the bandwidth you will have each month. This figure is also influenced by the size and type of files visitors are requesting, ie. audio and video files use up much more data transfer than text and images. You will automatically receive an email from the server when you exceed your bandwidth quota. The email will be sent to the email address that is associated with your control panel.

Additional bandwidth will automatically be billed at $1.50 per 1 GB (rounded to up to the next 1 GB block) each month that exceeds the transfer quota associated with your hosting plan. If you are on our Tiny Squid or Basic Squid plan and you think that you are going to be consistently over your quota, you might consider upgrading to our Giant Squid plan.

If you are looking for more bandwidth, the hosting plans on our new cloud hosting service range from 50GB-200GB of monthly bandwidth.

 

Email Storage

Email storage is the total amount of server space that can be used by each mailbox associated with your domain.

This is a hard quota, so if it is exceeded, then any new email sent to your mailbox will bounce back to the sender until you free up some space by deleting/downloading old mail (including deleting sent mail). If you are on our Tiny Squid or Basic Squid plan and you need to increase the amount of email storage associated with your domain, you will need to upgrade to our Giant Squid plan.

If you are looking for a larger email quota, the hosting plans on our new cloud hosting service come with a 1GB quota per mailbox.

 

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You can sign up for web hosting using our secure Order Form.

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