Web Hosting
Web Hosting at Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
One of the services we offer is web hosting. Although we primarily provide web hosting for our own design customers, we also provide general hosting services. Our basic shared web hosting packages start at $8.95 per month. The basic shared hosting package includes several "one-click" application installers, including a one-click installer for Drupal that actually works and is upgradeable. We are located in the Menomonie and Eau Claire, Wisconsin area. Our company prides itself on being carbon-neutral - all of our energy use is either provided from renewable sources, or is matched by carbon offsets.
We provide our own hosting services with a network of servers in two different locations. The servers are located in world-class hosting facilities, with redundant high-speed Internet connections, UPS, and generator-supplied power. Our hosting is extremely reliable and provides high redundancy. Unlike other hosts where you may share a server with hundreds of other customers, we are a small hosting company that can work with you to provide the hosting environment that you need, ranging from shared hosting to having your own dedicated servers.
All shared hosting plans include access to Webmin and Virtualmin Commercial control panels. All VPS and Dedicates servers include Webmin and Virtualmin GPL - you can upgrade to the commercial Virtualmin for a small increase in price.
Drupal Hosting
Most of our hosting services are intended to support the Drupal content management system. We provide managed Drupal hosting where we supply Drupal and a set of supported Drupal modules. This can include CiviCRM, and a number of other additional packages. Typically our Drupal managed hosting rates start at $65 per month. We're not a generic hosting service, but have a strong background in UNIX/Linux system administration. We can work with you on a specialized hosting environment for your needs, including VPS hosting and dedicated managed servers.
Managed Drupal
One way that we are different from most Drupal hosting services is that we provide an option of managed Drupal hosting. Our managed services mean that you can keep your Drupal site running and up-to-date without having to do the continual maintenance and due diligence that is required. We build you a running Drupal site with a set of Drupal modules that we support, and we keep your Drupal instance up-to-date and secure. This service includes updates to Drupal and our supported modules through a single numbered version of Drupal (that is, it includes updating through Drupal 6, but would not include updating to Drupal 7 without an extra porting charge). Our Managed Drupal service starts at $65 per month on a shared server.
Drupal Shared Hosting Environment
We provide a hosting environment intended for Drupal. Our Drupal servers include:
PHP 5.2
Mysql 5.0
Database servers tuned for Drupal use
APC Cache on all PHP servers
ioncube loaders
Drush available - along with login on the server.
On shared servers, we run Apache in worker MPM mode, with PHP running as a cgi process under fcgid. This means that you will be at least somewhat separated from other users on the server, and more importantly PHP will run as your own process under your own user id. This increases your security, and makes the servers more scalable. Our shared Drupal servers have 6 Gbytes of RAM and have a limited number of sites, so that our shared hosting is typically as fast as VPS servers are with most providers.
Shared servers support access to your own php.ini file, and an ssh login to the server.
Premium and above hosting packages include an svn repository and DAV logins.
We have successfully supported Boost and memcache on our shared servers to provide higher scalability for heavily-used servers.
All sites are remotely monitored 24/7, with paging alerts going to our staff if the sites become unresponsive. Additionally, your own staff can receive emails or SMS page if your site becomes unavailable.
We use the open source VIrutalmin Pro hosting panel on our shared servers. We can provide Virtualmin GPL for free on VPS and dedicated servers, or Virtualmin Pro for an additional charge.
VPS
We provide VPS hosting both on our own VPS servers and though other VPS providers. In this way we can provide VPS services in different parts of the United States. This includes providing hosting through Amazon Web Services for our customers. We can provide many different custom solutions for you, and provide additional scalibility when needed. On our VPS servers we typically provide PHP running through mod_php, which provides faster service - if you're running your own server and only have your own virtual hosts runing on it, this is typically a better choice.
Dedicated Servers
We can also provide dedicated servers for clients when that is necessary. We can do custom server builds for you. Please note that dedicated servers can take up to a week for setup, and there is a non-refundable server setup fee for dedicated servers.
