The Benefits of EOS Hosting

By hosting our sites on our own Virtual Private Servers (VPS), we function as a vertically-integrated website company.
We control the entire pipeline: hosting, design, development, and support.

Overview and Talking Points

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Speed and Support Swift, thorough service from people who already know your website inside and out. Because we designed and built it.

  • In contrast, when technical issues arise with third-party hosting, it can take anywhere from days to even weeks to resolve the problem – if it gets resolved at all. Finding the right department, navigating customer service, and dealing with ambivalent tech support can make resolving your issues stressful and frustrating. With EOS hosting, we fully understand our environment; and on the rare occasions when something does go wrong, we already have access and familiarity with the systems.
  • Personal relationship factor. When a client calls EOS for help with their website, they’re going to be dealing with the people who built and implemented it. Not a random customer service representative overseas.
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Consistent Quality EOS websites have an guarantee of excellence. We’re constantly improving your site for years to come.

  • Because our development and hosting process is standardized and integrated, we can expect a consistent degree of quality control. Default installations are uniform, procedures and methodology are standard. There are rarely any surprises.
  • We use reliable hosting that gives each client their own server, unlike shared hosting like GoDaddy. Our Virtual Private Servers  allow each client to operate and expand individually, rather than being controlled by shared economy hosting.
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 Return on InvestmentWe’re always providing new features at competitive costs. If the client wants a new feature added to the site, we have them covered. There’s no need to rebuild.

  • Rolling out new processes, features, and tools is simple. Since we have a standard and consistent rollout, it’s no trouble for the “web team” to introduce new ideas into our pipeline and see the benefits in both the short and long term. Plus, it’s easy to try different things.
  • We’re always on the lookout for new features that can be added to the default installation, passing the benefits (and the savings) on to EOS and our clients.
  • Automating and standardizing our process has introduced a lot of efficiencies into EOS’ website building. On average, it takes the “web team” six hours to build the first version of a signature site. That’s an impressive feat. While the development timeline is still bottlenecked by design and client interaction/revisions, EOS is paying less overall to actively develop more consistent, quality websites.
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Security Your information is safe. Your users’ information is safe. Offsite backups, malware protection, and SSL certificates come standard with every site.

  • All EOS websites are SSL enabled with certificates that never expire. SSL is now the standard security expectation on the web. The SSL process encrypts information between parties (like a website and its users) so that only the intended recipients can read it. It’s an important security feature, as well as an important psychological cue for users’ comfort: All SSL-enabled sites have the “https” prefix and display a padded lock.
  • Most third-party hosts charge more for an SSL certificate and leave their sites unguarded. In the event that your site is breached by a bot or a hacker, third-party hosts will often charge you to fix your site (if they fix it at all).
  • We offer protection against brute-force attacks by default.
  • We have firewalls in place, forcing connections to meet certain security parameters.
  • Our sites have never been hacked.
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Speed & SEO Our sites are fast, and Search Engines reward fast sites.

  • SEO takes a lot of things into account, and our hosting’s contribution is the speed and efficiency of our server environment. We’ve developed an incredibly clean, incredibly fast server installation that has none of the cruft. Unlike GoDaddy and the rest, there aren’t a bunch of unnecessary features weighing our websites down in an effort to sell ALL THE STUFF TO EVERYONE. We have everything we need, and nothing we don’t. This keeps our sites lean – and SEO loves that.
  • In addition to the SEO benefits, page speeds/load times on our websites are incredibly fast. High above the average. Data shows that user behavior is strongly influenced by load times.
  • We do not yet offer a CDN.