Website Hosting

Simply Web Services owns its servers and hosts them in a Network Operations Center in Utah. This location allows us to take advantage of its proximity to multiple power grids and its location in an area that isn't prone to many natural disasters. There are multiple different hosting plans we can walk you through depending on your business needs.

Simply put, no. We have found that most "complaint" email practices are not as compliant as we have been led to believe. For this reason, we do not sell or lease servers for that reason. We also do not allow our hosting clients to use our email servers for mass mailings.

Hosting is a critical component for your website; it’s a recurring fee that everyone must pay to have their site live on the internet. We offer hosting services, but there is nothing wrong with procuring hosting for yourself. Just note that hosting is often one of those things that you get what you pay for. Free or budget hosting is usually on "oversold" servers, meaning they are often far over capacity and full of malicious websites. Servers that are near, at, or over capacity are usually slow and unreliable.

Yes, there can be additional fees, and we strongly believe in being up front with our clients. Your website domain is a recurring fee, which can be purchased in different yearly increments (you are not required to purchase a domain name through us). Some clients have us handle this for them, and if we host the website, we often purchase the domain on the client's behalf as well. In WordPress, plugins provide functionality to the website. Most of the time, we can get the effect we want with a free plug-in, but sometimes a premium plug-in is called for. In those cases, it can be a one-time fee or an annual fee. It just depends on the plugin. We always communicate any costs that arise to the client before we move forward.

Normally, we would recommend CAPTCHA, but it has been defeated many times over, which is why we highly recommend OPPSpam for all our clients. In fact, we are so impressed with OOPSpam that it is now included with all the websites that we design and host as a value-added service, at no additional fee. OOPSpam uses AI to detect SPAM from Contact Forms and other web forms on the fly, moving SPAM into quarantine.

We use SPAMAssassin and ConfigServer MailScanner, which work together to help keep incoming SPAM low on our email servers. However, no Anti-SPAM solution is 100% or foolproof; that is why we recommend that our client set up their email client to help filter SPAM as well. In fact, we find that together, a majority of the SPAM can be eliminated.

For outgoing email, we use Mail.baby, which not only scans emails against known signatures and addresses and quarantines emails considered SPAM, but also handles all email whitelisting/blacklisting and delisting.

At Simply Web Services, we strive not only to equip our servers to be fast but also very affordable. Our main web hosting servers are using the following architecture:

Dual AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - 8 cores / 16 threads CPUs
64 GB RAM
2x 1TB NVMe storage drives (1 for the OS and one for storage)
1x 2TB NVMe (backup)
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
Unlimited @ 1 Gbps Bandwidth
Running CloudLinux with Imunify360, KernelCare, and Litespeed Web Server

Though this configuration is a few years old, it is very fast, extremely stable, and highly cost-effective.

We co-locate our servers in a FiberState Data Center in Draper, Utah, just outside of Salt Lake City.

In late 2024, the company we had been using to co-locate our servers suddenly closed due to the owner's passing. We were forced to scramble to find a suitable new location. After running through a list of hundreds of Data Center locations, we settled on Salt Lake City, Utah, for its natural disaster history, or its lack of natural disasters. Utah averages about two tornadoes per year, has an earthquake tremor every decade, and has a low risk of wildfires, landslides, hurricanes, and Tsunamis. The major flood risk is also very low, as is the volcanic activity. There is a notable risk of a winter snowstorm or blizzard; however, the data center is located in an industrial area, which greatly reduces the effects of a storm.

The data center itself is split across multiple power grids as well (plus an on-site solar array). The Data Center includes CCTV surveillance, Biometric Access Control, 24x7 Technical Staff Onsite, Redundant Power and Cooling Systems.

The data center is highly energy-efficient, which helps reduce our environmental impact.

Sorry, we do not allow adult websites on our shared hosting servers. The main reason is that many adult websites consume large amounts of resources, and it simply wouldn't be fair to the other websites on that server. However, if you have an adult website that you need hosted, we have a solution for you.