Category 4 offers 24-hour monitored business web hosting at a secured facility on premises. Friendly, experienced systems administrators are at your service and available by telephone.
We have a variety of hosting plans for your business website, from space on one of our shared servers to co-location of your machine. Our state-of-the-art shared web servers run Apache, the world’s most popular web server, on a Unix operating system called FreeBSD. We support Perl, PHP, and MySQL. Our hosting facility has multiple redundant internet connections for guaranteed bandwidth. We have battery and generator backups for uninterrupted clean power, and we offer nightly automated server data backup to all customers.
HOSTING PLANS
Basic Hosting Package: $25/month
- Includes up to 5 GB/month transfer, 1 GB of storage, 3 domain name aliases, and 10 email addresses.
Standard Hosting Package: $30/month
- Includes up to 5 GB/month transfer, 1 GB of storage, 3 domain name aliases, and 10 email addresses.
- Access to a private MySQL or Postgres database with unlimited tables.
Silver Hosting Package: $40/month
- Includes up to 10 GB/month transfer, 1 GB of storage, 3 domain name aliases, and 10 email addresses.
- Access to a private MySQL or Postgres database with unlimited tables.
Gold Hosting Package: $60/month
- Includes up to 25 GB/month transfer, 2 GB of storage, 5 domain name aliases, and 20 email addresses.
- Access to a private MySQL or Postgres database with unlimited tables.
Dedicated Server Hosting: $350/month, $500 one-time setup fee
- Includes a dedicated server in our rack with a 1.8 GHz+ processor and 1GB RAM.
- Two 80GB drives configured as RAID1 (mirror) for fault tolerance.
- FreeBSD operating system.
- Hardware maintenance is included.
- Nightly backup is included.
- Includes up to 10 domain name aliases, and 25 email addresses.
- 0 - 128Kbps data transfer @ $200/mo with each additional 128Kbps tier @ $75/mo
Colocated Server Hosting: $300/month, $250 one-time setup fee
- Includes space in our rack, power, and shell access to the server.
- Server will be backed up to our system if requested. (up to 100GB)
- We will reset the machine as requested but otherwise bill hourly for hardware or software upgrades or troubleshooting.
- 0 - 128Kbps data transfer @ $200/mo with each additional 128Kbps tier @ $75/mo
- Includes 10 domain name aliases, and 10 email addresses.
a-la-Carte Services
Usage of services beyond what is included in your hosting package will be billed the following month at the rates listed below.
- Data Transfer: $5/GB
- Storage Space: $10/GB
- Email Boxes: $2/month
- Domain Aliases: $2.50/month
- Subdomains: $15/month
Additional Services
- Domain Registration: Our cost from the registrar of your choice (we recommend GoDaddy.com) + $25 whenever the domain(s) are registered or renewed.
- Secure Certificates: Our cost from the certificate authority of your choice (we recommend Thawte.com) + $125 for initial registration and $100 per renewal.
Discounts
- Non-Profits: 20% discount
- 1-year Advance Payment: 10% discount
- 2-year Advance Payment: 15% discount