Choose Verio's award-winning, Web Hosting plans that deliver the best value for the money, including all the tools you need to set up your online presence or expand what you already have. These aren't just any website hosting plans. You get robust functionality, the ability to install free open-source applications to scale your solution as your business grows and free website design and online marketing tools. Every basic web hosting plan also includes 24×7×365 live phone and email support.
Choose one of Verio's web hosting plans to support multi-media and Flash, setup a blog, sell your products online or just get more resources for your high-traffic website. You can design your site with one of hundreds of templates from EasySite, our free web design software that comes with all of our website hosting plans. Then get more visitors when you use our free online marketing tools to make your site ready for the search engines. You may also choose to add a ShopSite shopping cart to one of our web hosting plans. This award-winning ecommerce tool makes it easy to set up an online store and sell your products online. All basic web hosting plans also include our 99.9% uptime guarantee. We really do deliver the best value for businesses that rely on their website for new leads and customer retention.
Verio's award-winning web hosting plans feature robust functionality, free tools, a secure environment and 24×7×365 live support.
If your web pages end in .asp or .aspx then you most likely need Windows. Choose this option if your website is developed on the Windows .Net framework or you need a MSSQL database.
If your web pages end in .php, .html or .htm you could use Windows but we recommend Unix. Choose this option if you want to use WordPress, Drupal or Joomla content management systems or a MySQL database.
Need: Ecommerce Hosting or Dedicated Hosting?
With Basic Web Hosting You Get
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| Get a website | Ecommerce | Blog | Lots of Email | Complete Web Solutions! |
Primary Features | Technical Details
Basic Web Hosting Includes:
Point-and-Click Installs for Popular Tools – Unix Plans Only!
Our application installer is the easy, fast and free way to install new functionality and the latest versions of open-source software like WordPress, ZenCart, 4images and more. No technical expertise required! Plus, you’ll get fast notification when updates and patches are available. This free tool gives you one central place to manage all of your applications. View Complete List »
Free EasySite Web Design Software
Build a simple website quickly without any design or HTML skills. View EasySite Details »
Large Monthly Transfer Amounts to Support Extra Visitors [?]
This ensures that your visitors can simultaneously visit, download and engage with your site without ever slowing it down or costing you extra.
How much Transfer do you need? Estimate your average page size w/ graphics MULTIPLIED BY # page views / month.
Example: average page size of 50 KB X 2000 page views per day = 3 GB per month. 1,000 GB = 1 TB
Guaranteed Server Resources [?]
Your site will load fast and consistently for every visitor. This service is unique to Verio!
Dedicated IP Address [?]
Shared IP addresses are less reliable and can make your site load slowly. With a dedicated IP address this is not an issue. Plus you can add an SSL certificate for added security at any time.
Automatic Site Backups
Backups are performed both nightly and weekly – so an archived version of your site is readily available.
Service & Satisfaction Guarantees [?]
Get reliable performance from our global IP network, our 99.9% server uptime guarantee and a 30 day money back satisfaction guarantee.
24×7×365 Phone and Email Support
Our highly trained technical staff is here to help answer your questions any time. Plus you can access online tutorials, video library and our online knowledge base for additional help.
Your Choice of Unix or Windows
Add a powerful and secure shopping cart to any hosting plan. ShopSite ecommerce can be added from within the Verio shopping cart when you check out.
ShopSite is an online catalog and shopping cart system that is easy to learn, yet extremely powerful. Manage your online storeyourself – no technical skills required!
With our ecommerce software and intuitive interface, you can have an online store in as little as 15 minutes. You get all the features needed to start selling right away – no expensive add-ons necessary!
ShopSite ecommerce plans can be added from within the shopping cart when you check out.
§ Please note that Verio cannot make a promise or claim that you would be PCI compliant by simply installing this software. For more information on PCI Compliance, you can visit the PCI Security Standards’ Home Page: www.pcisecuritystandards.org
Demo Stores
How do I get started?
First think about what are you selling and how many products you will have. This will help you select a ShopSite package. Then think about features you want to offer to customers. The Starter ShopSite package will have basic features. More features and functionality are included in the Manager, and still more are included with the Pro package. You can set up the store yourself using ShopSite's set up wizard, or have someone design your shopping cart for you.
There are four basic steps to selling your product online with a ShopSite shopping cart. 1) Open a Local Checking Account with a banking institution so you can receive deposits. 2) Open a merchant account so that you will be able to accept credit cards. 3) Open a Payment Gateway account so you can connect between the Internet (your website) and secure banking and credit card networks to process your payment. 4) Configure your ShopSite store to work with your merchant account and payment gateway.
What is a merchant account?
A merchant account is a bank account that is designed to process debit and credit card payments, then deposit those funds into your local checking account (for a fee). A merchant account can be established for an online business, a brick and mortar business or both. If you already have a merchant account, contact your bank to make sure you can accept online payments via your website with your account type.
Do I need a merchant account?
Yes. You will need to have a merchant account to accept payments via your website. You will also need a payment gateway to transfer information securely from your website to your banking institution. Verio does not offer merchant accounts or payment gateways.
What is a payment gateway?
A payment gateway is a service that provides a connection between the Internet (your website) and secure banking and credit card networks where your merchant account resides.
What if I already have a PayPal or other merchant account?
You can link directly over to your PayPal account to process a sale directly from the ShopSite shopping cart.
How can I become PCI Compliant?
PCI Compliance can be a troublesome task for the average company. Verio offers scan-ready hosting platforms and compliant payment gateway solutions from AuthorizeNet or Braintree that may help your business with the steps needed to meet compliancy regulations.
Do I need to pay for an SSL account?
No. We provide a shared SSL for all of our hosting plans that you can use at no extra charge. If you prefer to have a private SSL certificate, you can purchase one from a third party vendor for an additional fee. We recommend you purchase an SSL certificate from Global Sign or GeoTrust. Note: You will need a dedicated IP address for a private SSL certificate. We include a dedicated IP address with each Verio hosting account at no additional charge.
Can I have multiple shopping carts?
If you select a Linux VPS or Linux MPS plan you can add multiple websites and IP addresses, and therefore have multiple shopping carts.
Can my shopping cart pages be found by the search engines?
Yes. ShopSite pages are static which is better for Search Engine Optimization. When content is dynamically generated it can't be indexed by the search engines. Static content is always there and easily findable.
Will my shopping cart look like the rest of my site?
Yes. You can either use the shopping cart itself to promote your products and information, or create a website for your information and simply link to the shopping cart for “buy now” functionality when your visitor is ready to purchase. Either way you can add graphics to your shopping cart so that it matches your branding (your website's look and feel).
Secure Your Site with an SSL Certificate
A dedicated SSL certificate will allow you and your customers to conduct Internet transactions referencing a secure URL at your own domain name: https://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com. Adding an SSL certificate to your website lets your customers know their personal information is safe and transactions are secure in two ways. First, an https prefix will display in their address bar to identify your site as protected. And secondly, a certificate will be issued to encrypt data transfers like credit card numbers, and to identify your website as matching information on file with the Certificate Authority.
Add An SSL Certificate Now
Verio offers two options for adding an SSL certificate to your hosting plan. Each offering is provided by a third party. You'll purchase the SSL Certificate from the respective providers and then install it on your hosting account.
SSL Secure Server Support from GlobalSign
GlobalSign has been issuing SSL Certificates to secure web sites and transactions since 1996. GlobalSign is a leading Certification Authority and SSL Certificate Provider and expert in understanding and fulfilling the online security requirements of enterprises, organizations and governments of all sizes. GlobalSign SSL Certificates are highly trusted, WebTrust accredited digital certificates capable of 256 bit strong encryption and are supported by all popular browsers, applications and mobile devices. GlobalSign digital certificates are covered by a $250,000 Liability Warranty.
Buy Domain and Organization Level Certifications at special Verio prices from GlobalSign.
SSL Secure Server Support from GeoTrust®
GeoTrust is the world's second largest SSL certificate provider with more than 100,000 customers in over 150 countries. You can obtain your own SSL certificates from GeoTrust. Several options are available, capable of up to 256-bit encryption. Order with this link and receive special Verio pricing.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. SSL is a transaction security standard that provides data encryption server authentication and message integrity. Note that SSL is a means for ensuring credit.
EasySite Design Software
| EasySite Demo | - or - | Get a Custom Website Design from Verio's Professional Services Team |
NOTE: the demo that you are about to try is for EasySite PLUS, which is an upgrade on some plans.
| Primary Features | EasySite Standard Included on Basic and Enhanced Plans | Or Add EasySite Plus for just $8/month. EasySite Plus Included with Premium Plans |
|---|---|---|
| # of Pages | 9 | Unlimited within Disk Space |
| Design Templates | 120 | 250 |
| Voting and Number of Media Albums | 1 | Unlimited within Disk Space |
| Number of Contents in Media Album | 100 | Unlimited within Disk Space |
| Maximum Quota | 300 MB | 1000 MB |
| Forums | ||
| Weather, Map, Driving Directions, Google Analytics, & .mobi | ||
| Accessibility | ||
| eCommerce (Product Catalog with PayPal – up to 500 Products) | ||
| Flash Introduction, Feedback Forms, Guestbook and Blogging Tools | ||
| Counter, News Ticker, Flash Games, and Flash Maker | ||
| Multimedia Archive (500+ material of image, sound and movie) | ||
| Favicon Editor, Metadata Per Page, SiteMap, & SiteSearch | ||
| Uploader, Footer, and Publish Capabilities |
How can SEO Tools help you drive traffic to your site and improve usability?
View the Descriptions of SEO Tools »
Meta Tag Analysis: Provides an easy to read analysis of the current meta tags and will provide information about missing tags. If the tags are not optimized, the tool provides recommendations to help you optimize them for improved ranking.
Meta Tag Generator: Places the title, keywords and website description into the correct HTML format, which can then be copied and pasted into the site.
Position Check: Shows your site’s rank in various search engines based on keywords you specify.
Keyword Analysis: Checks the phrase frequency and keyword utilization in use on your web pages and compares this with your meta tags to recommend more effective use of your keywords.
Engine Guidelines: A tool that visits your web site and checks for possible violations of common search engine guidelines.
Competitor Analysis: Checks to see how your website measures up compared to that of your competition, just like a search engine would.
PosiTrak: Checks the position of your website and keywords on a monthly basis so you can track your position in relation to your marketing campaigns and various keywords.
StatTrak: Shows traffic and usage patterns for referring search engines, time on site, keywords and more so you can see which keywords drive traffic to the site, how long visitors stay on your websites, how often visitors return and other details.
Link Check: Checks all of the links on your site to make sure dead links do not exist.
Server Uptime Monitor: Scans your scans site every 20 minutes and sends an alert if the web site is not accessible.
LinkTrack: Checks the number of websites that are linked to your website on the top Search Engines for link popularity – which can factor into their relevancy algorithms.
Browser Check: Checks whether your site looks good and is displayed correctly in all of the most popular browsers.
HTML Analysis: Checks your website’s HTML code and provides information about bad code for document structure and images that may need to be altered to comply with industry standards.
Load Time Analysis: Analyzes the current load time of your site for 56K, DLS, T1, and T3 connections and provides an alert if the site is not optimized for one or more connection speeds.
Keyword Spider: Finds the top words or phrases used on your entire site along with the competitiveness in the search engines.
| MARKETER PRO | TECH PRO* | ||||
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| Included w/ Basic Hosting | Included w/ Enhanced Hosting | Included w/ Premium Hosting | Upgrade for just $9.95/mo! | Upgrade for Just $14.95/mo! | |
| # of URLs Submitted to 100+ Search Engines & DMOZ | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Automatic Monthly Resubmission, Manual Submission & Initial Site Review | |||||
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| Load Time Analysis | |||||
| Keyword Spider |
* Please note that Tech Pro provides suggestions for improvements that require editing the source code. However, access to the source code is not available in all DIY design tools – including EasySite.
How can Local Submission make it easy for customers to find you?
Key Features of Local Submission:
$5.99/month
Available with UNIX Shared Hosting PlansMuch more than a simple website converter, goMobi™ offers businesses a fast and easy way to create a mobile web presence that delivers mobile web visitors all the information users want to see most when on the go, such as links to specials and coupons, social networking updates, physical address and hours of operation, even online reservations and product sales.
What is Basic Web Hosting?
Basic web hosting is a service where multiple users/ websites reside on one server and share the same operating system. Each site or user has its own section on the server, and shares resources with other sites/users. This is the most cost-effective solution for hosting, as many users share the cost of maintaining the server. This is the most affordable hosting solution for small business owners who don't want the hassle of maintaining their own private server.
How do I choose a hosting plan?
It's important to choose the right hosting plan that will accommodate the growth of your online business. Consider how many visitors you will have, how many pages your website will be and how much you are predicting your online business to grow in the next year to two years. Consider choosing a hosting plan level that offers more resources than you need today. Then you will less likely need to migrate or change plans as your business evolves.
What is data transfer or monthly transfer?
Data transfer is the amount of data you are allowed to transfer to or from a website. Data, in this case, must be transferred from the web server to the user's web browser and is usually provided in increments of gigabytes (GB) – that's billions of bytes – and allotted monthly, meaning you can transfer a certain amount of data every month. Data refers to text, images, audio and video files that require various amounts of data to transfer.
How much transfer do I need?
You can figure out how much data transfer you will require by estimating your average page size (including graphics!) and multiplying it by the number of page views you expect to have in a month. For example with an average page size of 50 KB, and around 2000 page views per day, you will transfer an average of 3 gigabytes (GB) per month. Verio plans include 6, 8 and 12 terabytes – 1,000 GB = 1 Terabyte.
What is Unlimited Disk Space?
At Verio we do not apply specific limits to the amount of disk space you can use for website content. The term “Unlimited” is for content directly related to the site's content. Disk space is not to be use for file storage, only website content. You can also include up to 5GB of Multimedia content.
How do I add ecommerce?
You can add a ShopSite shopping cart to just about any Verio hosting plan or server. ShopSite can be added to both Unix and Windows operating system-based plans. This can be done by selecting the “Add ShopSite” option as part of the check out process. If you want to save a step in the ordering process, we also offer Ecommerce bundles that are based on Unix (only) and include both a basic web hosting account and a choice of three different levels of ShopSite shopping cart. You can also select a Windows Virtual Server or Dedicated Windows Hosting plan that both include ShopSite Starter, or you can upgrade to ShopSite Manager or Pro.
What level of shopping cart software do I need?
Choose a Starter ShopSite shopping cart if you will have less than 5 product pages. If you want to offer digital downloads, choose Manager. If you want to offer gift certificates, digital coupons, digital downloads or customer rewards then choose the Pro level. View a full comparison of features
How many databases can I have?
With our Unix basic web hosting plans you can have 1 MySQL database, with as many tables as you like within the given disk space for the plan. With our Windows basic web hosting plans there are a few options:
| PLAN TYPE | MS SQL | DEFAULT SPACE | # DATABASES | SQL EXPRESS | MYSQL | DEFAULT SPACE | # DATABASES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows (Basic) | NO | 2 DB 25 MB ea | YES | 50 MB | 1 | ||
| Windows (Enhanced) | YES | 50 MB | 1 | 5 DB 25 MB ea | YES | 100 MB | 1 |
| Windows (Premium) | YES | 200 MB | 4 | 10 DB 25 MB ea | YES | 200 MB | 1 |
Can I keep my Domain Name when I change hosting providers?
Yes. Even if you purchased your domain name from your existing hosting provider, your domain name and web hosting package are two separate entities. You can point your domain name to any hosting provider to display your web pages. Confirm that you are the administrative contact for the domain through WHOIS service. Enter your domain name and be sure that your name and email appears for the Administrative contact. If it doesn't, you will need to contact that person to re-point your domain name to your new web hosting package.
How do I tell if I need Windows or Linux?
If your pages end in .php, .html or .htm, you want to use a CMS or MySQL database or run open-source applications you can use Windows but we recommend Unix. If your pages end in .ASP or .ASPX, your site supports .NET technology or you need a MSSQL database then you need Windows. Note: Just because your desktop or laptop is Windows-based does not mean you need a Windows hosting plan. If you are not sure ask your web designer / developer.
I don't have any experience creating a website. Can you help me?
You don't need experience to create a great website if you use EasySite, our free design tool. You can choose from 100's of templates, add your logo, choose your color scheme and add your content using an interface that functions much like Microsoft® Word. If you prefer to have someone else do the work, our Professional Services team can provide you with a professional website.
I have Windows web hosting. Can I use this application installer?
Not at this time. Our application installer is only available for Unix-based hosting plans.
Can I use this to install other applications?
Our application installer will only install and manage select applications. We will periodically add new applications to the list. If you have a specific application that you would like to see, please let us know. View Complete List »
Where do I find the application installer?
An icon for our application installer will display in your hosting control panel. Simply click the icon to launch it. Select the applications you wish to install, and follow the simple steps to move through the installation.
Can I upgrade after I've installed an application?
Yes. Your hosting control panel will inform you automatically if any of your installed applications has an upgrade or patch available. You decide when to implement them. Upgrade one at a time or multiple ones all at once.
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