In our experience, one of the biggest mistakes non-profits and small businesses make when starting their Internet presence is choosing the right place to host their web site. The old adage that you have to “spend money to make money” does not apply in the case of web hosting. There are so many web hosts providing similar services it is a buyers market when it comes to choosing one. Many organizations choose to own their own server, we advise differently, why pay a large amount of money for the purchase, installation, and upkeep of a web server when you can get the same thing hosted remotely for $10.00 a month or less?

Scott Elliott Consulting has been using Dream Host web hosting for more then five years. The packages and services they offer are fantastic, it would hard if not impossible to find a better one. They offer Unlimited Disk Space (the space your web site takes up) and Unlimited Bandwidth (the amount of traffic that comes to your web site). They also provide 50 GB of backup space (No other “unlimited” host allows using any of your disk space for backups, at all). What this means is, you don’t have to worry about disk storage or network transfer when your site gets popular.

You also get Unlimited E-Mail account either using POP / SMTP Access (accessible using Outlook or Thunderbird) or through their webmail portal. It also includes Spam Filtering, Gmail integration, Forwarding addresses, Autoresponders, and Announcement lists; all of which are important tools for Non-profit organizations and Small Businesses.

Your Dream Host account comes with plenty of other features; One Free Domain Registration, Enhanced Web Security, Snapshot Data Backup, Daily Access Statistics, $75 Google AdWords credit, 24 hour Technical Support (E-Mail) and a 97-day money-back guarantee. They are also carbon neutral! Which means they purchase renewable energy certificates that offset the carbon emissions generated by all of their business activities. Don’t just take our word for it, visit Dream Host and check them out yourself. If you need help setting up an account with them, please contact us.