Our servers

We exclusively use Apache servers, PHP and MySQL for hosting and website development. This combination has repeatedly proven itself to deliver the best performance, features and value for money when compared to similar web technologies.

We feel it is important for US and Canada web sites to be hosted at a major US data hub. We maintain data centers in Los Angeles, and Dallas, which will provide much better connectivity and security than an overseas facility. Having servers located in the US guarantees faster web site access for USA and Canadian site visitors. It also provides web site owners with the security of having their sites in a data center that is subject to US laws and regulations.

Data Center Photos

Our Data Centers

We maintain and operate a state-of-the-art data centers; offering private suites, locked cabinets, multi-tenant open rack space, managed application servers, flexible network and Internet connectivity and all the accompanying service options.

Operate your critical business applications and IT infrastructure in the type of environment these important assets deserve. Our network operations center technicians handle the maintenance and management of these complex facilities and infrastructure enabling you to reap the benefits of a world-class facility with minimum investment of resources and up-front capital.

The Data Centers do not adjoin any exterior walls. All visitors must be authorized for access through an enrollment process that includes generating a photo style ID badge and capturing finger print biometric information. Visiting clients are required to check in at the front desk to check-out their photo ID badge. Access rights and identity for visitors are then double checked and their activity is logged by the biometric controllers located on all access points to the data center. Only an authorized set of Red Anvil personnel has access to the data center. No other individuals are allowed access without prior authorization and an appropriate escort.

Another thing you may consider is in regards to the physical location of each data center. Based upon where you or potentially most of your customer base maybe located, you might considered one data center over the other based upon it’s proximity to you.

The ms of latency from each data center to where you are or where most of your customer base might be is a consideration. To compare, ping each data centers IP address(shown below). Steps

Windows users, click the start button or Windows logo orb;

Start –> Run –> and type into the serch box: ‘Command’

A box opens whereupon you enter:

type ‘ping ipaddresshere’ (without the quotes) then hit ‘Enter’ on your keyboard.

The ping to Texas might be 80 ms while the ping to California could be 50 ms which means the path from you to California is faster than the path from you to Texas. The results of this test is different for each person. For those catering to overseas visitors, one could attempt to ping from a remote overseas location using a service such as this, to decide what DC is best for them.

There is so much misinformation and lack of support from hosting providers who do not know how to support WordPress, that its difficult sometimes to know which one to host with.

As WordPress developers ourselves, we became very frustrated with the services available within the USA and Canada and decided to go about doing it firstly, for our own clients’ sites and now for all developers and business owners.

We are pleased to offer an affordable selection of USA and Canada based Linux WordPress hosting solutions. Our hosting plans provide excellent uptime statistics, a fast dependable network, uncrowded servers, generous disk space and bandwidth, with outstanding client support.

As your site requirements change over time, your hosting package can easily be upgraded to suit your changing needs.

Our Entry plan is ideal for personal web site owners and small businesses. Our Standard plan is suitable for medium-sized businesses and our Advanced plan and Pro plan are designed for e-commerce sites and larger businesses. For sites requiring large amounts of bandwidth and resources, we offer our Max plan.

All of our hosting plans come with cPanel. It is an industry-leading, easy-to-use web site control panel packed with features to give you flexibility and control of your web site.

We provide quick and helpful 24/7 client support via the friendly and knowledgeable staff on our help desk. We also offer an extensive online help system with web hosting tutorials and a comprehensive knowledge base to answer your frequently asked questions.

If you have any queries about our hosting packages or would like help choosing the best hosting plan to suit your needs, please feel free to contact us»

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A little background on us.

The Company

Our background
WP Host Secure .com is a privately-held – by HQ Secure Global Internet – web hosting company. We are based on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. In business since 1992, we are a growing e-Consultancy and now, a WordPress host provider.

Our business approach
We have a simple yet challenging business rule: to provide quality web hosting that works. Although there are a vast number of web host providers on the Internet today, there are few truly good WordPress hosts. We work hard to provide quality and affordable local USA and Canada web hosting services, from our outstanding uptime to our dedicated support.

With this business rule in mind, we are very conscientious about Internet technology. We invest enormous amounts of time and research into choosing the right tools, services and technologies to offer our clients.

The Technology

Our servers
We exclusively use Apache servers, PHP and MySQL for hosting and website development. This combination has repeatedly proven itself to deliver the best performance, features and value for money when compared to similar web technologies.
We feel it is important for US and Canada web sites to be hosted in a Los Angeles data center rather than in an overseas facility. Having servers located in the US guarantees faster web site access for USA and Canadian site visitors. It also provides web site owners with the security of having their sites in a data center that is subject to US laws and regulations.

Our Data Center

We maintain and operate a state-of-the-art data center; offering private suites, locked cabinets, multi-tenant open rack space, managed application servers, flexible network and Internet connectivity and all the accompanying service options.

Operate your critical business applications and IT infrastructure in the type of environment these important assets deserve. Our network operations center technicians handle the maintenance and management of these complex facilities and infrastructure enabling you to reap the benefits of a world-class facility with minimum investment of resources and up-front capital.

Some of the many benefits of leveraging a professionally managed data center include: * Increased bandwidth with lower costs
* Greater network and power redundancy
* Improved physical security and video surveillance
* Access to 24/7 on demand technical support
* Proactive service monitoring and SMS or email notifications
* Equipment is located in an environmentally controlled space with dry fire suppression
* Uptime guarantees backed by an SLA

Data Center Facts
* Multi-homed network with 99.95% uptime backed by our SLA
* Redundant UPS power with 100% uptime backed by our SLA
* FM-200 clean agent dry fire suppression
* Anti-static tile with over head wiring and power

Redundant Power
* Main power is backed up by a Cummins diesel generator
* The entire data center receives conditioned power from redundant Powerware UPS systems.
* Redundant power is delivered to each rack as an A & B feed each coming from separate Power Distribution Units
* The data center is located on a newly upgraded power grid

Redundant HVAC
* 150 ton capacity, redundant Carrier HVAC system
* N+1 Cold Water Pumps
* N+1 Precision Aire Air Handlers

Building Facts
* Our facility is located outside of the 100 year flood plain.
* The building has an F3 wind rating, capable of withstanding 110 mph winds.
* Building exterior skinned with 10 gauge steel studs, 1/2 inch concrete board with a full trowel membrane, 3 inches of Styrofoam, a 3/8 inch trowel of concrete (in mesh) and an additional membrane.

Security
All entrances to our facility, entrances to the datacenter areas, and each individual datacenter row is monitored 24×7 by digitally recorded video surveillance.

The Data Center does not adjoin any exterior walls. All visitors must be authorized for access through an enrollment process that includes generating a photo style ID badge and capturing finger print biometric information. Visiting clients are required to check in at the front desk to check-out their photo ID badge. Access rights and identity for visitors are then double checked and their activity is logged by the biometric controllers located on all access points to the data center. Only an authorized set of Red Anvil personnel has access to the data center. No other individuals are allowed access without prior authorization and an appropriate escort.

NOTE: Managed WordPress Gold hosting plan includes SSL!

We are pleased to offer a range of affordable web server SSL certificates that provide protection for your online business and ensure that sensitive information and transactions cannot be viewed, intercepted or altered.

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is the industry-standard for secure online transactions. It is used to transmit data safely over the internet by creating an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. When visitors access your web site via SSL, your web server certificate makes a small padlock appear on their web browser, letting them know that their online transaction is encrypted and most importantly safe.

• All of our SSL certificates enable up to 128-bit encryption and have excellent browser compatibility.

• SSL certificates are only issued to authorised recipients and an automated telephone authentication process verifies that the person purchasing the SSL certificate has the appropriate administrative rights to a web server’s domain.

• Administrators are sent automatic renewal reminders and provides a quick and easy way to reissue any lost certificate at no extra charge. After re-validating certificate information online, the new SSL certificate is issued immediately and is valid from the date of reissue until the original expiry date.

Flashy Socials can be added to any website, WordPress blog or ??? You get to decide.

Photoshop file is included so you can edit the colors or icons to your hearts content. The rollover effect can be modifed via the CSS.

You can see Flashy Socials in action here»

WordPress Instructions

• Upload flashySocials-icons image folder to your theme directory.
• Copy and paste flashySocials-style.css content to your styles.css.
• Open flashySocials-content.php and edit the links to point to your social networking websites.
• Copy and paste flashySocials-content.php to your theme’s header.php, or page.php, or home.php, or single.php; depending upon where you want it to display.
• Edit the CSS to postion your Flashy Socials where you want them.

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Blogs are websites, but much more dynamic.  When people think of websites, they usually are thinking something that is “static”, or used just to display information.  Blogs however, allow you to publish your own articles, pictures and videos, create conversations and manage everything easily from a simple dashboard.

Blogs can be built to do anything websites can do, and the user can control everything themselves.  Even large companies are using WordPress for a that website/blog combination, keeping everything all under one roof.

What’s the big deal about WordPress?

The WordPress blog is now a website with tens of thousands of people signing up for WordPress each day making it the world’s most popular website/blogging platform and it is now 12% of all websites on the Internet. Over 260 million people worldwide visit WordPress sites every month, bringing them over two billion page views. Not only is WordPress easy to use, but it offers thousands of free plug-ins to enhance your site’s functionality and user experience.

WordPress is Open Source

You do not have to pay licensing fees to use it for your business.  It is a free software that you can modify and use for all of your sites.  Being open source, thousands of developers freely build upon WordPress, which is why it has such a huge selection of designs/themes and plug-ins.

WordPress is User Friendly

Going back and forth with a designer can get very frustrating for a non-techie person who just wants to make a simple change to their site.  With an easy to use interface, WordPress lets you manage all your day-to-day website maintenance such as updating the content on your site, adding pages, organising the layout and installing plug-ins.

WordPress has Beautiful Themes

It is so easy to get the look you are ecstatic about with WordPress.  Since it is open source, you will find thousands of free themes online that you can just download and install on your site with just a few clicks.

WordPress has Outstanding Plug-ins

Almost anything you can imagine can be done with your WordPress site.  Since it is open source, any developer can create a plug-in that performs a certain function.  And for the most part, they are very simple to add on to your site.  You just download, install them into your site with the plug-in installer and if they need any configuration, make the appropriate changes and you are up and running.

WordPress is Always Evolving

You won’t get left behind with an outdated website, as WordPress constantly is improving and adding features to their software and when they release them, you can update your site with just a few clicks.  Remember, since WordPress is an open source software it remains pretty advanced as the community is always creating the cutting edge tools to match the advancement of online technologies.

WordPress is Search Engine Friendly

For those of you that don’t know, big brother Google is cracking down…again.  They are actually bumping websites from the first page that don’t show comments and recent activity.  This means if you don’t have the right type of site, you may never make the first page of Google.  And if you are not on the first page, you might as well forget it because 95 % of all site traffic from search engines comes from page one results. Google wants to see dynamic websites – WordPress websites – ranking on the first page.

Can You Use It For Business?

WordPress is perfect for businesses of all types.  Sites are built specifically to help business owners and marketers get found on the Internet.  Not only do WordPress sites perform better in the search engines and help you build a list, but they are integrated to your social media sites for complete optimisation.

We are pleased to offer a range of affordable GeoTrust SSL web server certificates that provide protection for your online business and ensure that sensitive information and transactions cannot be viewed, intercepted or altered.

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is the industry-standard for secure online transactions. It is used to transmit data safely over the internet by creating an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. When visitors access your web site via SSL, your web server certificate makes a small padlock appear on their web browser, letting them know
that their online transaction is encrypted and most importantly safe.

All of our SSL certificates enable up to 128-bit encryption and have excellent browser compatibility.

GeoTrust certificates are only issued to authorised recipients and an automated telephone authentication process verifies that the person purchasing the SSL certificate has the appropriate administrative rights to a web server’s domain.

Administrators are sent automatic renewal reminders and GeoTrust provides a quick and easy way to reissue any lost certificate at no extra charge. After re-validating certificate information online, the new SSL certificate is issued immediately and is valid from the date of reissue until the original expiry date.

You do not have to host your web site with us to take advantage of our great prices. We offer a variety of SSL web server certificates to suit your needs and budget. If you have any questions about our range of SSL certificates, please feel free to contact us.