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Standard Level Web Site Hosting

Standard Level

The basics for running a nonprofit on the web

Investment

  • $200 setup fee
  • $20 monthly maintenance

Main Features

  • Secure file space for your clients - they can work on their documents from anywhere.
  • Domain Registration - (www.your-organization.org)
  • Web site
    • Daily Site Backup
    • 99% Uptime Guarantee
    • 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
    • Traffic Reporting
    • Content Management System - lets you easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of your own content on the web. No expertise required! In fact, you're using an example right now. We use it to maintain our own site, entirely.
    • Constituent Relationship Management solution designed specifically to meet the needs of non-profits - gives you the tools to connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents, including fund-raising! We use it ourselves. Click here to see a page from our contacts list.
  • Email
    • Virus Protection
    • Spam Protection
    • Web Mail
    • Email Forwards
    • Email Aliases
    • Auto Responders
  • Support
    • Guaranteed response within 24 hours - we're always listening.
    • 90 day phone support. Lifetime e-mail support.
    • If it's broken, we fix it - no questions asked.
    • 2 hours of consulting on any subject - design, technology planning, best practices.

Alternatives

In case you're looking to shop around for alternatives, we'll share what we know about other providers. Comparisons are tricky, since we don't all offer exactly the same features. We try to keep up with their information, but can't promise these prices are up to the moment.

  • The closest comparison we're aware of is DharmaTech, another nonprofit based in Salt Lake City, Utah. According to their hosting page, they charge for-profit clients a $500 setup fee and $125 monthly maintenance for a distribution similar to ours. They offer a discount to non profits, but we don't know how much. It does not appear that they host email or register domains names, which we do.
  • If, like us, you're in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, the most similar organization is Advantage Labs. They provide a managed hosting plan that could be used like our standard plan. They charge a $35 setup fee and $70 monthly for the same content management system we use. They don't offer the same modules and don't offer our constituent relationship management system. We don't think they host email, which we do.
  • If you have staff with the technical expertise to do so, you could 'Do It Yourself' at Dreamhost for about $8 monthly, or with GoDaddy for about $5 monthly. They'll host your site and let you install the same systems we use. They don't offer specific support for these systems, but we do.