Top 10 Reasons for Family Web Hosting

A Permanent, Easy-to-Remember Address

Having your own domain name and web site means that you'll always keep that name, even if you change internet service providers or jobs. With an identifiable name, your friends and family will never need to look up your email address again.

Bigger Mailboxes

Does your ISP limit you to paltry 5 or 10 MB email accounts? With our email services, full inboxes and attachment limits will be a thing of the past! If you send and receive a lot of email, why not set yourself up with a 100 MB email account? With our family web hosting packages, you can set up mailboxes that are as small or as big as you want.

Personalized Email Addresses

Wouldn't it be nice to have portable email addresses that identify who you are instead of who your email provider is? joe@joesmith.com looks a lot better than jsmith287@mail.yourisp.com, and it is easier to remember too. If you choose to host a family site, wouldn't it be great to have individual, private email accounts for each member of your family? Instead of obscure, spam-filled hotmail accounts, give your children unique identities like joe@thesmithfamily.ca or cindy@thesmithfamily.ca.

Email Aliases

At some point, we've all had to submit an email address to a website, only to have that email address bombarded with spam as a result. Imagine being able to submit a new, unique address everytime you need one, without having to set it up first. For example, you could use contest@joesmith.com to sign up for a contest or newsletter@joesmith.com to sign up for a newsletter. Then, if that address starts to attract spam, you can simply ignore it. Email aliases make this possible! All mail sent to email addresses you haven't explicitly defined are automatically sent to a generic account, where you can control what email reaches you. Entering a personal email address on websites has never been safer!

Host Large, Dynamic Sites

Would you like to host your own forum, image gallery or let users customize how they see your site? With mySQL databases, ample storage space and Fantastico applications included with every family web hosting package, these things are easily within your reach. And, if you should need any help setting things up, we'll be happy to get you started.

Learning Tool for Children

There has never been a greater tool than web hosting to give your children a global voice. Whether a personal journal or gallery of their art, your child has an instant potential audience of millions. With our free software tools, they are empowered to create dynamic, interactive sites limited only by their imaginations. Keep your children at the forefront of technology education by giving them the tools they need to grow.

Web Statistics

With our included statistical analysis tools, you and your children can learn all kinds of things about who your sites attract. You can see what country people are visiting from, when they're visiting, how they get to your site, and even what they do while they're there.

Sharing Files

Do you still send vacation photos by email? With email size limitations and complex distribution lists, it's a horribly inefficient process. If you had your own website, all of your photos could be in a single location, neatly organized for your visitors, and guests could leave comments and reviews. You can even host vacation videos! If you rely on email or webspace provided by your ISP, you could never offer friends and family something like this. With the free applications included with your account, you could have your own professional, database-driven image gallery online in as little as 30 minutes with no previous web development experience.

Secure your Family Name

Get a personalized domain name for your family before someone else takes it! With prices at an all-time low, domain names are being registered at a phenomenal rate and thousands of common names are taken every day. Protect your family's online identity today.

Back Up Important Files

With Sheltered Hosting, you never need to risk losing important files to a computer crash again. Store your important files online, where you will be able to access them from any computer in the world. With additional software you can even schedule automatic backups to our servers on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis.