Managed, Green E‑Commerce Hosting
IT’S SIMPLE.
We take care of your every website hosting need; fully managing your site for continuous, ubiquitous, lightning fast service–all included in your hosting plan–which includes: Basic Maintenance, Upgrading, Eight-Layered Security and Staging Ability.
If you need added or replacement support (with a can-do attitude!) for WooCommerce–and nearly every other plugin–or extra levels of service for things like: design, posting, copywriting, cart and site operation, answering your store’s customer service support requests, etc. we offer affordable solutions to meet your needs starting for as low as $1 per plugin per month or $25 per hour.
Expertly Engineered Application Stacks
Improving upon Standards
We specialize in a few types of E-Commerce Applications Stacks and then focus our expertise toward offing you a full range of managed shop services geared to these specialties.
All of our engineers and support staff are specialists in these applications, and with e-commerce itself, so that we can help you build and operate your store by providing the very support services that you need. This enables us to have a can do attitude–we empower you to focus on your vision, your site, your customers and your sales–while letting us make it all work, perfectly!
WordPress WooCommerce
Whether you are experienced with WooCommerce or not you can rest assured that we’re not afraid to help! We’ve got support plans to help you set up advanced product types, subscriptions, deposits, form fields and more.
GiveWP
Boost fundraising efforts by leveraging the kinds of crowdfunding campaign features that really get folks excited about your mission, projects and causes. We’re the GiveWP experts who’ll help you master targeted giving.
Divi Builder
We’re experts in the Divi Theme Builder by Elegant Themes ® which is the Most Popular WordPress Theme and the most powerful WordPress Page Builder in the World. We supply, train and support the Divi Builder, third-party Divi Modules and our own custom Divi Modules and Layouts.
Fully Managed Servers
We’re Secure Shopping Experts!
In 1998 we started as merchants selling a variety of products and services online; seven years later, in 2004, we launched our flagship JournalsAndBooks.com an online boutique retailer of writing journals and diaries.
Our founders were a computer programmer and a graphic designer both with extensive publishing experience with several print media startups who had the technical and artistic vision and ability to help pave the way when e-commerce was still the wild west.
During the course of over two decades we helped many of our friends, and friends of friends, realize their online and e-commerce visions as well.
Since we have so much experience in keeping our own shops running well, and those of our friends to boot, we’re uniquely positioned to understand what store owners need, and–since we’ve built so much from scratch–we know how to get things done the right way, the first time around!
Now, we offer our services to a wider array of shopkeepers and non-profits who want to get and keep their stores running well–not just at the beginning–but into the future.
Our Buffalo Data Center Location
We’re close to Niagara Falls and this allows us to have 85% green energy which includes the total carbon footprint for the entire network connection from our server to your customer. On top of that, our ColoCrossing Data Center has been awarded SSAE16 Type II Certification–a rigorous third-party review–which validates their commitment to providing the highest levels of security and environmental controls for its data center customers. This and our excellent customer service are why we’ve had over a 97% customer retention rate, year-after-year!
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Environmental Responsibility
We triple offset Carbon Emissions
We’re environmental activists and we’ve helped to found several non-profit organizations that steward grassroots environmental causes like: reforestation, responsible agriculture, composting, urban agriculture/food justice, and healthy living initiatives.
We also use renewable energy for all of our servers and offices. Then, we calculate an estimate for the carbon emissions for the total network connection from our servers to the visitors and then triple offset that carbon footprint.
High Availability and Best Grade of Service for All Plans!
Plans and Pricing
Selecting the right plan is easy with our FreeScale service. Simply select a plan with enough SSD Space (hard drive) and email accounts and we’ll automatically FreeScale you to the best fitting plan, for your approval, based on your actual needs. Conversely, we’ll FreeScale clients to less expensive plans if it won’t affect their service.
Never Overpay for Resources again!
Apple
Lowest Cost- (more like this)
- SSD Space: 10 GB
- Max. RAM: 1024 MB
- Max. CPU: 200%
- WordPress: 1
- Maintained Cart: 1
- Email Accounts: 15
- Mo. Visits: 4,000-19,000
- Mo. Page Views: 25,000-50,000
- Busy Hour Views: 252 – 1,260
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Palm
Best Starter- (more like this)
- SSD Space: 50 GB
- Max. RAM: 1.6 GB
- Max. CPU: 225%
- WordPress: 2
- Maintained Cart: 2
- Email Accounts: 60
- Mo. Visits: 18,000-90,000
- Mo. Page Views: 50,000-250,000
- Busy Hour Views: 1,161 – 5,805
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Maple
Best Value- (more like this)
- SSD Space: 150 GB
- Max. RAM: 6.3 GB
- Max. CPU: 500%
- WordPress: 7
- Maintained Cart: 7
- Email Accounts: 190
- Mo. Visits: 58,000-290,000
- Mo. Page Views: 175,000-775,000
- Busy Hour Views: 3,726 – 18,630
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Walnut
Best Power- (more like this)
- SSD Space: 425 GB
- Max. RAM: 18.7 GB
- Max. CPU: 1100%
- WordPress: 20
- Maintained Cart: 20
- Email Accounts: 580
- Mo. Visits: 180,000-896,000
- Mo. Page Views: 475,000-2,350,000
- Busy Hour Views: 11,538 – 57,690
- (full specs)
What Our Customers Say
Brandon
You are fabulous! GPowerHost was a big help in getting my Inn website designed, up and running. You’ve been excellent and professional throughout the whole process and beyond. We still rely on you to help when we are busy and no task is rejected in keeping our rates and bookings up to date.
Mark
GPowerHost has helped our theater company with website hosting, electronic mailing, and online troubleshooting for over ten years. We have been consistently thrilled with the expert service, quick and friendly response, and smart advice for keeping our company visible online to our supporters and mailing list members. Our Support Manager always goes out of his way to maintain our website and to keep mailing system functional, responding quickly whenever minor problems arise.
Tanya Gagné
In 1999 you helped me launch my first website and now I’ve got six! Thanks so much for all that you’ve done. Xoxo
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Our clients and friends often comment “You work so hard on our website and store, why don’t you have a website of your own?” and is was a very valid question. Over the years we have indeed turned our website on to the public, but that never lasted…
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have a Control Panel?
Yes. We are a fully managed host and 99% of our customers never visit a control panel more than once or twice. Since we do it all, why bother? Yet, each account includes its own full-strength WHM cPanel control panel which, this is provided mostly as a convenience--especially for new clients moving from other hosts who are still in the habit of setting things up themselves--or for power users who want to retain control.
In addition to all of the WHM cPanel tools we provide a fully-functioning, automated installer and backup snapshot tool called Softaculous. Here, you'll see a history of documented backup snapshots (and any staging sites) that our technicians employ when they perform all kinds of maintenance to your site.
For things like email account set up our account customer service GPowerHost Portal has many of the same services and is less complicated to use. In our GPowerHost Portal area you can:
- View your billing history or pay an invoice
- Order new services
- Upgrade any existing services to plans with more power (we'll suggest when this may be a good idea)
- Downgrade when you feel you are over-resourced (likewise, we'll suggest when this may be a good idea!)
- Cancel all kinds of services or your account
- Transfer or Register a New Domain
- Open, answer or review your support tickets
- Read our support documentation
- Read our support news
- Add additional users so that more than one in your organization can use the portal or cPanel
- Control your email preferences
- Review any past messages from us
- Login to your cPanel interface
- View basic or advanced statistics
- Perform additional backups
- Manage your Enterprise Grade Email accounts, Forwarders and Autoresponders
- Browse all of your files
- Manage your Domains
- And much more!
Feel free to use either our GPowerHost Portal, WHM cPanel or just open a ticket and tell us what you need and we'll handle the nitty-gritty! Don't let us discourage you if you want to get your hands dirty and learn to do it yourself, we'll be happy to walk you through any of the hundreds of things that can be done from our control panels, just ask!
Is this Shared Hosting or are these VPS?
Neither! Each of our hosting plans is built upon a foundation of CloudLinux 7 and their Elastic Site account type--which is a greatly improved hybrid of the best of both of these other two kinds of antiquated account types: Shared Hosting and VPS (Virtual Private Servers). On top of this, we build our own servers and infrastructure and then we greatly expand upon that by adding our own proprietary stacks (highly specialized technology and customization combinations).
We started by combining the best aspects of VPS', like:
- Separation of user files and services
- Control over things like: programing languages and versions
- Greater speed
- On-demand extra resources
- No risk of bad neighbors spoiling a good thing
- Ability to have sophisticated security
- Greater backup protection and options
Then, we engineered the conveniences of Shared Hosting like:
- Ease of use
- No need for any expensive licenses
- Everything already set up
- Everything hardened
- Email Server and reputation managed by the hosting company
- All patches and updates handled immediately by experts
- Less chance of things going wrong
- No overhead--requires less memory, CPU and hard drive space
- Inexpensive when compared to Managed VPS
- Engineered for E-Commerce and your critical shops, service and support site needs
- Higher degree of customization than either hosting or VPS
- 24/7 Uptime Monitoring (every 60 seconds) and daily inspection of your site and logs by an engineer that knows your site
- Highly optimized server stacks that are geared toward one or combinations of these: WordPress, WooCommerce, GiveWP Give, or PeepSo
- Better and more secure isolation from other users than even VPS
- Email administration by experts and outgoing emails delivered by Amazon SES
- The best Eight Layered Security protocol managed by security professionals using the leading tools and vendors
- Ability to implement custom plans for users with unique needs--within minutes--at fair prices
- All traffic served lightening fast with no impact during peak periods
- Free evaluation of greater resourced plans (for three days) without added cost
- Three kinds of backups! All managed by us and the ability to do your own as well.
- The very fastest servers with the highest performing components
- High Availability, Solid State Hard Drives
- Free periodic site optimization and SEO tuning
- No need for all of the security, SEO and backup plugins--we've build these things on the server level
- A network and servers that are Faster than competitors without any need for CDN's (except in rare cases--we test and let you know if a CDN is warranted)
- Infrastructure that is not ever over utilized to reduce heat
- Green power and partnerships with activist organizations to triple offset any minimal carbon footprint wielding a net positive environmental impact
- A can do and can fix it attitude!
What's more, we have a host of reasonably priced extra support options to meet all of your needs and to free up your time to focus on your site, organization, mission and clientele!
Are your servers secure from all of these new hosting threats?
We are always 100% patched and have implemented all best practices against all known and likely vulnerabilities! While many hosting companies operate well patched infrastructures, there are two new classes of vulnerabilities that pose significant hurdles that many are not willing to fully and completely address:
Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities, like: ZombieLoad and MDSUM—where attackers are able to see data inside the CPU—are a very new and extremely serious global hosting threat. Recently, four of these attacks were disclosed:
ZombieLoad, the most serious, also referred to as the larger issue, RIDL or CVE-2018-12130.
Fallout, also referred to as Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS) or CVE-2018-12126.
MLPDS, Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling or CVE-2018-12127.
MDSUM, Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory or CVE-2018-11091 . Bad score: 9.9 (critical).
Simply patching hardware/software is NOT enough to mitigate this threat and if a hosting companies' server CPUs are made by Intel® after 2010 AND if they have Intel Hyper-Threading Technology enabled the host IS vulnerable!
Because these attacks take an exploited user to implement the issue isn't one that the well maintained and careful single user/dedicated hosts/desktop computer users will likely fully mitigate. If a single user keeps their computer squeaky clean they might not see the need to cripple the computing power with the fixes.
In a shared environment, where infections are common—even if quickly cleaned up—only a full mitigation would be prudent. Why? Because the vulnerability is so pervasive that certainly new exploits will continue to occur and full mitigation is the only way to be sure.
If you ask many in the industry if they are vulnerable they will point to patching, which is ONLY part of the fix. It is being widely and incorrectly reported that Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is only needed until a patch is available. However, to date and for the foreseeable future, no patch will fully mitigate the threat while SMT is still enabled. This costly and inconvenient truth has left many hosts silent/evasive on the issue.
As of May, 2019 we surveyed 50 hosting companies and could only find two brands (the same hosting company)—other than GPowerHost–that was accurately claiming to be fully mitigated. Most refused to answer questions about the threat or gave false and misleading information about their vulnerability. This means that around 96% of all hosts with Intel CPUs are vulnerable to at least the worse of these threats.
It seems that in the new era of Trump, one can now get away with lying and sticking to the lye or just evolving it as you go along—as long as you always maintain the false underlying premise folks just won't care about the truth—they are too besieged by false information to react.
Being one of the 4% who have fully disabled Intel Hyper-Threading Technology was no small feat. We were aware of the impending classes of threats and had started a year ago to expand our architecture to allow rapid mitigation of future disasters like these. Since we are not a discount host (we are super expensive either!) we are able to plan ahead and take all proactive, protective and prophylactic steps and plan for unforeseen disasters.
So, why would so many hosts remain vulnerable? Likely, many will eventually do something about this, however, disabling the Intel Hyper-Threading Technology means that a hosting company would instantly have half of the CPU cores (shared cores, that is) than they previously had. Since many hosting companies heavily pack their servers to densities where the available CPU cores are sometimes utilized to around 80% or more, turning off Intel Hyper-Threading Technology would bring all of their servers to a screeching halt. Furthermore, the cost and the amount of resources needed to go out and double the number of servers a hosting company has would mean they would no longer be profitable.
While we could not know that this particular threat would be found, we were certain that Intel (and some others to a lesser degree) had for over a decade cut corners and global hosting catastrophe was imminent. To date, few, if any, real world cybercriminals and unscrupulous governments are thought to have leveraged these exploits, however, since the payoff is so giant it is certain that they are hard at work—spending hundreds of thousands of dollars—crafting those exploits right now.
Other CPU side-channel vulnerabilities, like: speculative execution attacks, such as Spectre, Meltdown and Foreshadow represent still further vulnerabilities in modern processors like Intel, AMD and ARM processors. These are nasty bugs indeed, but so far there are mitigations that while difficult to protect against when they were announced have fixes that aren't too hard to swallow. Many high quality hosting companies have mitigations fully in place.
See: FAQ: Are your servers secure from all of these new hosting threats?
Support
We are 24/7 available
Every server is human monitored around the clock and our support staff to server ratio is 5 : 1. That’s more than five engineers and support staff dedicated to servicing each server. This way, they all know the client sites and needs.
Additionally, each site we host is visited daily by a support engineer as part of a checklist of things to ensure your site is working without your having to be responsible to look. This, plus 1,440 daily uptime checks and more keep your site fully operational, guaranteed (by our 100% uptime SLA)!