Stratus Joins HTN Cloud Hosting
Another Type of Cloud
Stratus Accounts in HTN Cloud Hosting
If you have been waiting for the smaller shared Cloud hosting plans to become available because your needs do not demand the Cirrus PCI-compliant servers, your wait is over. Stratus accounts are now available in two sizes.
Startus 2 accounts are ideal for non-commerce sites that need to support modest traffic – a brochure site, a blog, etc. At $10/month, these Stratus 2 accounts give you great value with the full HTN Cloud Hosting services for a single domain: nightly backups retained for 5 days, the Plesk control panel, access to the application vault of easily-installed programs, up to 100 email users, unlimited subdomains, and Google Postini email filtering.
Stratus 5 accounts are ideal for sites that need a dedicated IP address, but do not require PCI compliance. Perhaps you do e-commerce but your credit card processing is entirely through PayPal or Authorize.net or some such provider where the whole financial transaction is done at the payment processor’s site, not yours. At $19/month, these Stratus 5 accounts give you great value again – the full range of HTN Cloud Hosting services listed above apply for up to 3 domains.
More details for both types of Stratus accounts are on on our site.
The speed of the HTN Cloud Hosting accounts is neatly illustrated by this graph of the HTN site statistics. This shows time to download a page. Can you tell just by looking at the graph when we moved the site to a Cirrus account?
Customer Site News
HTN launched Tackle-Craft last month. This is a site for the fisherman who makes his own lures. As is so often true, the details behind this craft are amazingly diverse and complex. If you, or someone you know, enjoys making lures or is seeking specific materials, visit this site. You will be amazed at the variety of products available.
New Customer Portal
HTN is moving its hosting invoicing to a new Customer Portal system. If you have a hosting account with HTN, you will eventually be moved to the Customer Portal for hosting billing. You will receive an email before we move you with more detail. And you will receive a “new customer” email when the hosting invoicing for your hosting account gets moved.
If you are currently paying for hosting with an automated charge, that behavior will continue on the same frequency and date. If you are currently paying for hosting by check, you will continue to be invoiced and have an option to either pay by check or online through the Customer Portal.
We think you will find the Customer Portal useful. With one login, you can view and update your hosting account, view payment history, see emails that the system has sent to you, and use the help desk. Yes, we are also moving the support ticket/help desk function into the Customer Portal. One place to take care of many tasks.
If you are also doing website work or custom programming with HTN, those invoices will continue to be handled through our old invoicing system and online payment portal.
If you have questions, please contact us.
