A Non-Profit Web Hosting Cooperative Association!
Become a member today and recieve all of these great benefits!
Exceptional Website Speed
With 90% fewer neighbors on your server, speed up your load times with WebHosting.coop’s superior hardware. Stop waiting on your website to load. You don’t have to take anymore abuse from your overloaded web host. With our faster servers, you’ll have room to grow!
Data Backup & Redundancy
Never worry if your email or website is down. WebHosting.coop offers advanced multi-regional DNS & Email redundancy. WebHosting.coop also backs up all members data every other day to 2 different locations to ensure that your information is always safely protected.
Detailed Website Statistics
The power of getting the reports you want when you want them is easy to do and completely in your hands. View a multitude of website reports, ranging from total traffic (hourly, daily, and monthly), most visited pages, search engine keywords, countries, etc.
TownHall Member Access
Participate in a brand new type of socially run, democratic digital cooperative by voting and engaging on many important issues which affect you as a valued member of our digital community. Bring your concerns to our TownHall and be a part of the change.
Transparency Reports
It’s time to stop wondering what’s going on with your server. Receive bi-weekly transparency emails showing detailed server statistics. These reports include domain usage, email activity, bandwidth usage, as well as automated blacklist check reports.
24/7 Technical Support and Monitoring
Relax and enjoy the comfort in knowing your data is in good hands. WebHosting.coop is heavily focused on identifying and resolving your technical related issues and is available 24/7 via Phone, Live Chat, or e-mail ticket. We are here for you at all times!
What exactly is non-profit Cooperative Web Hosting?
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What is WebHosting.coop?
WebHosting.coop is the world’s first completely transparent, socially democratic, internet-run web hosting cooperative association. WebHosting.coop services its members all over the globe with fully transparent and honest website hosting solutions. Town Hall meetings and WebHosting.coops digital voting platform are some of the ways we give our members the ability to vote on important issues relating to WebHosting.coop’s operations and service offerings. This innovative approach will help increase confidence in business, leverage the evolution of the internet, and raise the bar for service-based organizations of the future.
Why choose a non-profit cooperative webhost to host your website?
There are many types of web hosting solutions available today. The web hosting industry has grown significantly over the past few years alongside the demand for individuals and businesses to have a website online. With this growth, many for-profit corporations try to take advantage of this demand in a few ways. Unfortunately, website owners can become collateral damage from the will to profit. This includes issues from slow and interupted service due to overfilled servers with too many users, not implementing rigorous backups and solid redundancy measures to save money, and filling your account with ads of services you do not need. Our vision and goal is to take a more balanced approach and ensure that the needs of our members are a top priority. We believe that when our members are made number one we can grow together to new, soaring heights of web hosting success.
Our approach at WebHosting.coop is that we try to solve these issues by providing the world’s highest quality shared web hosting environment while giving our members the ability to vote in changes which can affect the cooperative as a whole. At the end of the year, WebHosting.coop takes all excess funds and we petition our members to decide how those funds are to be used. It is WebHosting.coop’s goal to use any excess money not to flow to the top of the business but rather to increase the quality of service and provide amazing benefits to our members.
What are WebHosting.coop’s server, network, and datacenter specs?
WebHosting.coop believes hardware and network infrastructure are the most important aspect to providing world class shared web hosting. WebHosting.coop runs its member’s websites on top-of-the-line server hardware in a cross vendor hybrid cloud architecture which resides across multiple class 1 datacenters around the country.
WebHosting.coops sites utulize 4 AMD QuadCore 2600 servers with 128gigs of ram with a gig Ethernet connection. While most companies overfill their servers with 2000 plus users causing slow times heavy use, WebHosting.coop keeps the integrity of those resources by only allowing its servers to fill to 250 members. All resources are shared among its users. This allows the server to remain fast for other members in case one of the members receive a spike in traffic. WebHosting.coop uses its cloud architecture to run redundancy for all members’ accounts. This includes their membership, backups, live failover, and multi-regional DNS and Email redundancy.
In what ways are WebHosting.coop transparent to it’s members?
As an open, honest, and transparent cooperative association, WebHosting.coop offers our members unrestricted access to what companies consider sensitive information ranging from financial reports, to general shared server data reports, and official future roadmaps which can be altered by vote via our socially democratic voting software. (“TownHall”). We will not only send out bi-weekly server transparency emails, but we will also be releasing bi-annual financial reports, roadmaps, and abuse reports. While many companies prefer to keep this information hidden from their customers, we have full confidence in sharing this information, so our members can be fully aware of what is happening with the web hosting community which they are a part of. There’s no tricks, smoke screens, or hidden mirrors here: what you see is what you get.
How can I affect change I would like to see made with WebHosting.coop?
Every member can participate in our socially democratic voting platform we call “TownHall”. Members can submit suggestions, vote on upcoming issues, and communicate about any aspect of the cooperative. Petitions can also be submitted. Then when a member receives one third of overall total participation on their petition, the petition is then put up for vote during our quarterly live broadcasted town hall meeting. At this time, members may be requested to submit a final digital vote.
I have never had a website before. How can you help me?
WebHosting.coop strongly believes that education is the key to successful growth. It is the cooperative’s goal to educate all its members about all of the ins and outs of various important aspects of building, managing, and marketing their website. These days, most of everyone has heard of someone who started a blog and now they have their own business. At the same time, you may have also heard stories of people being taken advantage of because of lack of understanding in the process. It can be a tough road to walk out there in this new digital world.
Today technology has advanced to the point where an average person can get an AMAZING looking website pretty fast for free with a system to help them manage it via open source. We offer collaborative training classes where we teach members how they can use free open source software to accomplish their website initiatives. Our goal is to eventually build an entire school into our membership. One step at time of course!
I currently have a website. Can you help me transfer it? Is there a fee?
WebHosting.coop offers 1 free website, database, and email trasnfer per membership. We can help for additional admin charge of $50/hr.
