Hosting

ON OUR GEAR OR YOURS

Most of our clients choose to have Sophio host their website. Clients that host with Sophio enjoy unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, and 24x7x365 monitoring.

Some clients already have one ore more websites they are hosting elsewhere, often on their own equipment. If this is the case Sophio will install its software on a clients server. You can also ask us to install your new webstore on your own server. Besides the obvious benefits of having your own physical server, here are some that may not be apparent.

• Your own unique IP address (good for SEO)
• Your own SSL certificate
• Ability to change the character set for foreign languages
• Unlimited webstores without additional monthly fee's (save $50 per month per store)
• Get 100% of the bandwidth and speed available without sharing with other clients
• Freedom to host or store content for other sites
• SEO capabilities using tools such as ISAPIREWRITE
  

Sophio Software requires a Windows Web Server with at least 2g of ram and 2 physical hard drives. The two hard drives should be at least 120g in capacity. If you plan to host many webstores and you expect a large amount of traffic then the bigger the drives the better..

We recommend getting a dedicated server at 1and1.com. You must get a WINDOWS server with at least two hard drives and 2gigs of ram. The more you spend the faster your site will be.