What is it Exactly?

When browsing through our site at Hipposerve you may have noticed a category that you haven’t seen on other hosting sites. That is Community Hosting. This article looks at the premise behind these products and why we feel that they are an important provision.

What do you define as the ‘Community’?

We define the community is something that is local to you, the customer. A community group could be something like a swimming club, wine tasting circle, Scouts or Girl Guides group. It could include local community action groups, or political organisations, or even local charities and non profit organisations. Basically its anything local to you that doesn’t fall into the business or personal category.

With this we find an interesting niche because community groups tend to draw quite a bit of website traffic at certain times – far more than a personal site needs. However the traffic needed is much less than the requirements of a business. It’s something in between. As an example, we host a Jujitsu website for a Welsh jujitsu club. For part of the week, traffic is very low, but come club nights, the site is hit hard, with members visiting it to find out times and events. Our customer also found that the basic email provided with the personal sites was not really good enough for the number of mail shots he wanted to send out to his members.  It was because of his that our Community Hosting Package was born.

With competitive pricing set much lower than our business products, our community customers can purchase high end web hosting that is optimised directly for their needs and the needs of their members.

Support for Community Package Customers

Community groups tend to be run by people who also have a day job; they are busy people who come home from work, often gulping down their dinner and then shooting off out again to run their club. Having to manage a website as well is even more work. With our FREE SSL your site will get an extra layer of security. Not only that google likes SSL and so this will improve your websites position in the rankings.  We also use the ultra fast Litespeed web servers, with a bespoke cache and free cloudflare with railgun, for additional speed, security and redundancy

Our package comes with a one click WordPress installer so you can install the web’s most popular content management service at the click of a mouse button and begin creating content straight away. If however you want even more simplicity, we have partnered with Weebly, and drag and drop website creator, which is available as a very reasonably priced option on all our packages.

Alongside all of that our community hosting comes with our famous Hipposerve support. We have specialists on hand to offer not only technical advice, but also advice on content you can use that will inform existing members and attract new ones. The support is wide and varied. You can phone us between 8am and 8pm. You can contact us via our online ticketing system 24/7; or you can use our live web based chat which is available on our website that is available from 8am until midnight.

Hipposerve’s Network

On top of all this you will have the advantage of using Hipposerve’s robust network with 99.9% uptime and all the additional features our packages have. We challenge you to take a look at similar packages operated by some of the bigger boys out there and see there comparative costs. You will struggle to find something there for a rambling group or local theatre.

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About Us

Hipposerve is a UK based company offering Web hosting, domain names, specialist email services and a range of other features to help you make your online statement. We offer outstanding customer support that always works on a personal level. You will always be treated as an individual – not just another customer. We also have a range of tools to help get you started:

Hipposerve Domain Tools

1. Domain Price List – updated daily
2. Domain Promotions – updated daily
3. Domain Suggestion Tool – (this is currently only compatible with a few tlds, but can be used to find good names for the others)
4. Domain Registration – (this allows you to filter down the tld’s into different categories to make it easier to find them)

Ordering a hosting package is a fully automated process which can be completed from our website. If however you wish to discuss package options with us, or any other hosting related query;  just drop us a line at our support desk.

You can also phone us on 0330 043 1502.

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