Many things in our world have greatly improved in the last two decades.
Web hosting, however, has failed to keep up with the times.
Does this sound familiar to you?
What gives?
When web hosting companies own the resources, they call the shots.
This leaves bloggers, internet entrepreneurs, and startup founders prone to the whims of their hosting company.
We know the feeling. It sucks.
We decided to do something about it.
Imagine this:
Back us today and we will be able to offer you all this and more.
What "more," you ask?
While ambitious, though individually it may be challenging, together we can accomplish much!
Mark Baker, CoFounder of BackerClub.co
Before switching to Decibite, we regularly ran into arbitrary restrictions on our accounts and email systems without warning.
It was very frustrating to be punished for a website that was successful. Communication was poor and getting answers took way too long.
With Decibite, they personally handled our account and gave us exceptional response time and thorough help.
The difference has been night and day.
As founder of AlterNation, I wanted a hosting company that could provide me a quality platform to build on.
I started with TMD Hosting, but was constantly getting complaints of slow load time on the forums. Customer service said everything was fine. Not even close!
I began looking for a new host and found Decibite.
Everything was migrated by their staff in a matter of minutes and never had another complaint about load time since.
The site is quick, stable, and if I have ideas I don't know how to implement, they figure it out for me.
Decibite is the first company I've ever felt there was a real relationship.
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$6,000 - Custom control panel, including 1-click Wordpress installation and full resource monitoring. (Comes with API access with WPMU plugin)
$12,000 - Expand into a new datacenter in Alberta. Multiple locations will give us even higher response times for those in US, Canada, and Mexico.
$45,000 - 24/7 expert technical support.
$80,000 - An additional server based in Germany, giving better response times to those in Europe and Africa.
$125,000 - On top of our Montreal, Alberta, and German locations, we'll add another server in Australia. This will increase response times to any of you in Australia and Asia.
$170,000 - A new server will also be based in Argentina, giving better response times to those in South America.
$250,000 - Free shared web hosting plan. Great for aspiring startups, internet entrepreneurs and bloggers!
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By directly communicating with our administration team, you will receivedirect feedback and changes can be put into effect immediately.
Guaranteed to keep your website to industry standards with 99.9% uptime.
You own the asset, giving you the option to lend or re-sell at any time.
Fully customizable to fit your website's needs. Our VPS packages can be tuned to handle thousands of concurrent connections in today's hottest web languages.
No perpetual leases. An affordable, upfront purchase price and a small maintenance fee. Nothing more.
Unsure how many resources you need? Our credit system makes switching between packages as easy as classic web hosting! Upgrading is only the difference between the two options.
No more charades of unlimited plans that get throttle down or restricted whenever an algorithm feels like it.
We closely monitor server your resources to maximize efficiency and site speed.
No gimmicks hiding true resource usage and availability.
Monthly resource usage is a thing of the past. Projects can go through periods of surge and inactivity. Through our control panel, we can monitor both your current and projected site usage to adjust accordingly.
With our free traffic surge protection, extra resources will be supplied at the first sign of a traffic spike. This prevents your site from crashing just when you need it most!
Website under a malicious attack? Our technical support will work with you to find the best solution rather than just cancelling your account.
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Not sure option which is best? Our team can help determine which is best for you. Or read the description below.
Here's a simple analogy to help you understand what you will get.
Each resident is given their own place to stay with semi-private rooms.
Staff monitor and maintain common areas and equipment for safety and security.
Some web hosting companies can get greedy by overselling the space provided, especially if they don't account for surges of traffic.
Optimal for: Casual bloggers, new startups, and personal websites with traffic up to 30,000 pageviews per month. Good place to start for most MySQL and PHP-based sites.
What happens if I receive too many people visiting my site at one time?
Many companies simply shut down your site or suspend your account entirely. Sometimes they won't even give you the courtesy of notifying you through email.
In the event you experience an unforeseen traffic spike, Decibite offers traffic surge protection to boost your resources to help you manage the sudden influx.
Should the traffic continue, the support team will work with you to find the best long term solution.
What are potential security concerns in a shared plan?
Guests are prevented from visiting your "storage" or "sleeping areas."
But malicious individuals can still attempt to con a user into allowing access to these private spaces.
While Decibite makes every effort to keep everything secure and isolated, nothing is a real substitute for a solid wall that you'll find with a VPS.
This is why those that have the budget often upgrade to a VPS.
Not only is a VPS more secure, we can help you tune the settings specifically to your needs and run many of the latest web technologies.
We created the VPS package for serious bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs, and growing startups in mind.
Starter VPS traffic capacity
Serious bloggers and website owners: Up to 100,000 pageviews per month.
eCommerce websites: Up to 80,000 pageviews per month.
Enhanced VPS traffic capacity
Professional bloggers and website owners: Up to 400,000 pageviews per month
eCommerce websites: Up to 320,000 pageviews per month
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At this stage, you can expect more control, security, flexibility and greater reliability.
You'll find the security is enhanced with an individual space. A place to call home. No more shared restrooms and laundry facilities!
You have complete control over anything inside your walls. With our configuration and maintenance included we can customize a system to your needs.
VPS hosts are closely monitored to maintain optimal resource usage so our private cloud is at peek performance.
Having your own system tuned precisely to your needs is a must have for anyone looking to monetize their project.
Every person's resources are fully partitioned out. So what happens in your VPS stays in your VPS.
Security guards don't need to worry as much about who belongs since there is a locking door at the front.
With the ability to add or remove security features at will, you get to choose what is necessary and what is a burden.
Though the "guards" are often able to spot who "belongs" and who doesn't, it isn't as secure as a VPS cluster or dedicated core processor.
With a cluster of systems, reliability and speed increases dramatically. This is done by leveraging the power of multiple VPS systems, each dedicated to specific tasks.
With insulated floors and padded walls in between owners to keep things nice and quiet.
A mother-in-law that you both like and love of course :).
VPS Cluster traffic capacity
Bloggers and website owners: Up to 2,500,000 pageviews per month
eCommerce websites: Up to 2,000,000 pageviews per month
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At this stage, it is very unlikely that you will be affected by anyone, even your neighbour.
By using a cluster of VPS with a private LAN, traffic congestion is rarely an issue.
At this stage, you would need a MASSIVE amount of people visiting your site at the same time in order to cause a problem. Like the population of a small country visiting at the same time, massive.
A VPS Cluster is great for resource-heavy websites, medium organizations, or owners that knows website downtime = lost revenue.
Dedicated Processor traffic capacity
Bloggers and website owners: Up to 7,500,000+ pageviews per month
eCommerce websites: Up to 6,000,000+ pageviews per month
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At this point, you have solid concrete walls between you and your neighbours.
The likelihood of anyone affecting you is virtually nil.
Security at this point is very high. Like visiting royalty high.
If a neighbour were to do everything within their power to flood your system, you might notice lower water pressure.
And even if your neighbours were to be bombed by unethical hackers, you wouldn't even notice it.
A dedicated processor is great for larger organizations or those that desire quarantined security areas.
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What happens if I receive too many people visiting my site at one time?
Many companies simply shut down your site, or suspend your account entirely. If they send you an email to tell you it is considered a courtesy.
In the event you experience an unforeseen traffic surge Decibite offers surge protection to boost your resources to help you manage the sudden influx.
Should the traffic continue the support team will work with you to find the best long term solution.
Got something in your reward level that you don't want?
We use credits as an interchangeable currency, allowing us to streamline the process for our customers using any payment, including bitcoin and Dogecoin.
Upon campaign completion, you will have the option to either collect the rewards provided in your package or use the credits towards other products/services to help your website grow.
Credits can be used to pay the maintenance fees, hosting products, and domain registration.
In the future, we hope to offer you various business and marketing services to help you start and grow your business.
This includes things like graphic design, programming, copywriting, SEO analysis, and other service of that nature.
1 credit = 1 month of shared hosting maintenance
While the cost of credits may fluctuate the buying power does not. Once in our system credits do not devalue, and they can be cashed out at any time.
Where does the money go?
For every $1 invested...
50% - Product (development, hardware, production, expansion)
30% - Customer service and satisfaction (Helpdesk services, SSL Certificates, domain registration, and other awesome rewards, yet to be announced :))
15% - Marketing/advertising
4% - IndieGoGo Fees
10% - Other/Backup Fund
1% - Awesome office party ;)
How much does it cost to migrate my site to Decibite?
If you support this Indiegogo campaign, you will receive free migration to our servers. We will copy the files, import the databases, update the DNS records, and fine tune the settings to give you a smooth and seamless transition.
How does renting a web hosting package work?
It sounds like I can buy in at the right tier then "rent out" some of my space to my friends. Is this correct?
That is correct! You can also set limits on sub-accounts too.
What tier would I need to start renting?
All tiers can be rented out. Depending on the types of sites and flexibility required you may find it significantly more advantageous to upgrade to a VPS server.
How do I go about renting out the space?
Before our control panel is completed reseller management will be handled through our helpdesk. Once we have our control system it will be built with reseller functionality at heart.
How much am I allowed to charge?
Feel free to charge whatever you like. We hope our clients will use our platform to add value to their existing services. We do charge a 5% transaction fee if you bill clients through our system.
Will every site be secure from each other?
The main account has the ability to create various sub-accounts that run as different independent users.
Each sub-user is secure from each other, but the main account makes any decisions that affect each sub-user.
Hosting Specs
Shared Hosting
Diskspace: 10GB
Bandwidth: 200GB/Month
Additional Diskspace: 1 Credit/500MB
Additional Bandwidth: 1 Credit/50GB
Resource Price: 20 Credits
Maintenance: 1 Credit/Month
Starter VPS Hosting
CPU: 1 Shared Core (Bursts to 2.6Ghz)
Diskspace: 25GB Disk
Ram: 2GB
Bandwidth: 500GB/Month
Resource Price: 38 Credits
Maintenance: 6 Credits/Month
Cluster VPS Hosting
CPU: 2 Shared Cores (Bursts to 5.2Ghz)
Diskspace: 50GB Disk
Ram: 5GB
Bandwidth: 1TB/Month
Resource Price: 70 Credits
Maintenance: 10 Credits/Month
Dedicated Processor
CPU: 1 Dedicated Core (100% utilization of 2.6 Ghz, or divisible into upto 10 Shared cores)
Diskspace: 150GB
Ram: 10GB
Bandwidth: 3TB/Month
Resource Price: 374 Credits
Maintenance: 20 Credits/Month
Additional VPS Resources
Additional CPU Core: 30 Credits/Core
Additional Diskspace: 1 Credit/GB
Additional Ram: 10 Credits/GB
Additional Bandwidth: 1 Credit/100GB
Risks and challenges
We desire our 100-day, 100% money-back guarantee will alleviate any major concern you may have. But we do believe it valuable to fully disclose any potential risks and challenges we may face and how we foresee solving them.
1. Server fulfillment - We have already spec'd out several server deployments and have live prototypes in place for the last year-and-a-half.
Additionally, we have already begun talks with our vendors and are ready to go once we have received full campaign support.
2. Expanding internationally - As we seek to serve our users in various parts of the world, we will need to setup servers in new countries.
Our team has been working internationally since 2004 and already have connections in secure countries. Additionally, with the funding we will receive, we will have the ability to scale much more efficiently.
3. Hiring quality technicians to maintain servers - Every company seeks top talent to fill their ranks with and finding those people can be difficult.
Our CTO has over 12 years experience in the field of Information Technology and knows many qualified people to help lead the company forward.
4. Software. There are always potential challenges whenever you are coding your own control system. Our CIO has 10 years of programming experience and has connections to other freelance programmers to help double check his work.