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The Best Website Hosting in Canada and the U.S. for Small and Medium Businesses

It’s a big claim to say you offer the best website hosting in Canada and the U.S. for small and medium businesses!  But we believe it’s true and we’ll back that up with data (that you can use to compare with other providers).

Here’s why we say we are the best:

1. Cloudflare for Enterprise

If you are comparing us to other providers, ask them what Content Delivery Network (CDN) they include (at no additional charge to you). IF they offer CDN at all, chances are they give you CloudFlare’s free plan. Most providers though don’t offer any CDN ‘out of the box’.

We provide Cloudflare’s HIGHEST level of service to all websites hosted on our system! You can compare Cloudflare’s features and plans here. And while those prices may scare you, don’t worry! With our hosting solution you only pay a fraction of that. Feel free to contact us for cost information or any other details you are interested in.

2. Security

We utilize CloudFlare for Enterprise’s Web Access Firewall (WAF) to help keep the bad guys out. CloudFlare’s WAF inspects all data against the rule engine and the threat intelligence curated from protecting literally millions of websites. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged or logged as per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, agnostic of whether it lives on-premise or in the cloud. Websites that run without such a service are left to defend for themselves against a very hostile internet!

We also use what we consider the best premium WordPress security plugin and make sure it is configured the way we think is best. And we keep our software and yours up-to-date because we know that WordPress websites are often hacked via known software vulnerabilities. The best way to avoid that is to have up-to date software. We take security very seriously and so should you as we know EVERY website is being explored for vulnerabilities by hackers using a variety of computer-generated scripts.

3. Reliability

Reliability goes hand in hand with solid security. You cannot have high reliability without solid security.  In addition to the We provide REAL TIME VIRUS PROTECTION via Immunify 360, another key differentiator from our competitors.

We also back up our websites nightly and do a second monthly backup via another independant service. Our backups are there if you need them!

4. Speed

We know fast websites are critical for good Search Engine results (search engine optimization) and for good user experience. Our websites are fast! You can always check your own website performance using GTMetrix.com

If you’re not getting an “A” rating with your existing hosting provider, you should seriously thinking of hosting with us!

5. Backups

In business, the number one rule of data is to back up anything you don’t want to lose, and then back it up again! We take nightly backups of the websites we host and we do monthly backups via an entirely different service (with daily backups available there as well).

6. Up Time Monitoring

Via Better Up-Time 24/7 Monitor we monitor our hosted websites’ uptime. If a site goes down we receive a text and an email from the monitoring service.  Knowing this as fast as possible, we can take corrective action. Of course it’s extremely rare for one of our sites to go down but there are a variety of reasons why this could happen.

7. Staging Environment

With the push of a button we can instantly create a clone of your website. We can use this to test out new versions of WordPress, your website theme or plugins or even the version of PHP your site is using.

8. PHP Options

On some website hosts you don’t have a choice of what version of PHP you use. And while we recommend staying on the latest fully released version, there may be valid reasons to be on a different one. We can do this on our hosting environment for you at the push of a button!

9. FREE Migrations

If you have a WordPress website on another host, and want to come join us, we’ll move your website for free and we’ll do it fast!

10. Support

We’re here when you need us and we’re backed up by a team 24/7. We respond to phone, email, our ticketing system and even Facebook messaging!

StoneHouseMarketing Solutions, Inc is located in Belleville, Ontario. We proudly serve many local customers in the Belleville, Quinte West (Trenton), Picton, Tweed, Madoc, Brighton, Cobourg, Port Hope, Napanee, and Prince Edward County area. We also have customers in Toronto, Ottawa and other parts of Canada. We have US based customers in Illinois, Washington, Florida, Virginia and South Carolina.