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Web Hosting Plans
Our web hosting is known for reliability, security, great customer support, and plenty of functionality for the price.
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Tiny Squid 200 MB disk space 10 GB bandwidth $8-$10 / month |
Basic Squid 500 MB disk space 30 GB bandwidth $11-$13 / month |
Giant Squid 1000 MB disk space 50 GB bandwidth $14-$16 / month |
Forwarding Squid 0 MB disk space 30 GB bandwidth $3-$5 / month |
Of course, if you already know which plan you’re interested in, you can skip all the tech specs and Sign-up now for Web Hosting.
Tiny Squid
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Tiny Squid Hosting Plan Pricing
| standard rate | multiple domain discount or starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
multiple domain discount combined with starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
setup charge |
| $10.00/month | $9.00/month | $8.00/month | $0 |
Basic Squid
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Basic Squid Hosting Plan Pricing
| standard rate | multiple domain discount or starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
multiple domain discount combined with starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
setup charge |
| $13.00/month | $12.00/month | $11.00/month | $0 |
Giant Squid
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Giant Squid Hosting Plan Pricing
| standard rate | multiple domain discount or starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
multiple domain discount combined with starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
setup charge |
| $16.00/month | $15.00/month | $14.00/month | $0 |
Forwarding Squid
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Redirect a domain to another domain or sub-directory of a domain (ie abc.com forwards to def.com or def.com/stuff/).
You can use either Standard Forwarding or Frame Forwarding. Check out our Website Setup FAQ for more info
Forwarding Squid Hosting Plan Pricing
| standard rate | multiple domain discount or starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
multiple domain discount combined with starving artist discount or non-profit discount |
setup charge |
| $5.00/month | $4.00/month | $3.00/month | $0 |
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 2.0 (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
- Plesk 8.3 web-based control panel
- POP and IMAP 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
- 24/7 external & internal server monitoring (performance, services & connectivity)
- 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.
Hosting Discounts
Multiple Domain Discount
This discount is automatically applied when customers host more than one domain with Laughing Squid. Please see our Billing FAQ for more info.
NOTE: This discount can be combined with our “starving artist” discount or non-profit discount. To qualify for this discount, all domains need to be billed to the same web hosting account on one invoice.
NOTE: You will need to choose a hosting plan for each domain that you want to have hosted. Multiple domains cannot share the same hosting plan or disk space, however you can bill multiple domains to the same hosting account, which will qualify you for our multiple domain discount. You can also use our Forwarding Squid plan to redirect one domain to onther domain or sub-directory of another domain.
“Starving Artist” Discount
Our “starving artist” discount is available to individuals or organizations who add our “Powered by Laughing Squid” button to the main page of each website that will have the discount. Please see our Billing FAQ for more info.
NOTE: This discount can be combined with our multiple domain discount, but not our non-profit discount.
Non-Profit Discount
Available for non-profit organizations. To qualify, you will need to fax or mail us a copy of your 501(c)(3) information. Please see our Billing FAQ Here’s more info.
NOTE: This discount can be combined with our multiple domain discount, but not our “starving artist” discount.
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 50 MB (rounded to up to the next 50 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 sites 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.
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 $2.00 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.
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.
Referral Program
Earn $20.00 credit for each new customer you refer to us under our referral program.
Order Form
You can sign up for web hosting using our secure Order Form.