Your website needs a dependable place to live.
NameStand provides straightforward web hosting for businesses, organizations, community groups, personal projects, and other websites that need a solid home on the Internet.
No mystery. No artificial urgency. No pretending that every website needs the same thing.
Hosting without the nonsense
Hosting should be one of the boring parts of running a website.
That’s a compliment.
Your hosting shouldn’t demand constant attention. It should provide the environment your site needs, keep the routine infrastructure out of your way, and give you somewhere to turn when something needs attention.
NameStand’s approach is practical:
- Clear hosting options.
- Honest resource limits.
- No pretending everything can be unlimited.
- Help moving an existing site, whether you’re moving to us or away from us.
- Support from people who understand the infrastructure behind the service.
- No requirement to buy every other service we offer.
The objective isn’t to sell you the biggest account.
It’s to provide the hosting that fits what you’re actually doing.
Your domain doesn’t have to be registered with us
NameStand can register and manage domains, but we’ll be honest: domain registration isn’t where we’re particularly price competitive.
You may find a better price from another registrar, and if you do, we’re perfectly happy for you to register your domain there and use NameStand for hosting, email, development, or whatever other services you need.
We’ll help you configure the DNS to make the pieces work together.
Already have a domain registered somewhere you’re happy with?
Keep it there.
You do not have to transfer your domain registration to NameStand just because NameStand hosts your website.
If you want NameStand to handle the domain too, we can do that.
Either way is fine.
Your domain is your domain. Where you register it is your decision.
Email doesn’t have to move either
Hosting your website with NameStand does not mean you have to move your email.
If you already use an email service you like, keep using it.
If you’d rather use NameStand for email on your own domain, that’s available separately.
Website hosting and email can work together without being welded together.
That’s the point of offering services à la carte.
Use what you need. Keep what already works.
Bringing an existing website?
Changing hosting providers doesn’t necessarily mean rebuilding your website.
NameStand can help evaluate and migrate existing websites when moving them makes sense.
And migration assistance works both ways.
If you’re moving to NameStand, we’ll help make the transition. If you’re moving away from NameStand, we’ll help with that too.
We’d rather lose a hosting account because you’ve found something that fits you better than keep one because leaving was deliberately made difficult.
A migration may involve more than copying a directory. Depending on the site, there may be databases, DNS records, email considerations, application settings, certificates, redirects, and other details that need attention.
We’ll look at what you actually have and help make the move as orderly as practical.
WordPress or Joomla getting to be a full-time maintenance project?
A dynamic CMS can be exactly the right tool for some websites.
For others, it may be considerably more machinery than the public site actually needs.
If an existing WordPress, Joomla, or similar CMS site is primarily publishing pages, articles, news, events, documentation, or other content, NameStand can evaluate whether moving to a static publishing workflow makes sense.
In that type of system, content can still be maintained in an organized way while the public website is generated as HTML, CSS, images, and other static assets.
That can reduce the amount of application software exposed on the public website and simplify the hosting environment.
It isn’t appropriate for everything. Stores, membership systems, authenticated applications, and other dynamic services may still require server-side application software.
But a website that primarily publishes content may not need an entire dynamic CMS running publicly just to display it.
Your website should be publishing content, not collecting plugins.
Need something custom?
Hosting and development are separate services, but they work well together when you need both.
NameStand provides custom web development for projects that need more than an off-the-shelf site.
That can mean building something new, improving what already exists, adding functionality, or creating a site specifically suited to the organization using it.
You can use NameStand for development and host somewhere else.
You can host with NameStand and use a different developer.
Or we can handle both.
We don’t get offended if you cherry-pick.
Hosting for Southeast Mississippi
NameStand has called Southeast Mississippi home since January 2019.
We particularly want to make dependable web services accessible to the businesses, nonprofits, churches, clubs, associations, community groups, and individuals in the communities around us.
That doesn’t mean NameStand hosting stops at the state line.
Our services are available beyond Southeast Mississippi too.
This is simply the community we call home.
What about hosting plans?
We’re developing hosting plans around real customer needs rather than inventing three arbitrary boxes because every hosting website is apparently required by law to have Basic, Professional, and Ultimate.
The finished plans will clearly explain:
- What resources are included.
- What types of websites the plan is suited for.
- What support is included.
- What optional services are available.
- What the service actually costs.
No scavenger hunt through footnotes to discover what “unlimited” meant after all.
Once those offerings are finalized, this page will provide the details and direct ordering through the NameStand customer system.
Not sure what you need?
That’s fine.
You shouldn’t need to understand every part of web hosting before you can buy web hosting.
Tell us what you’re trying to put online, what you already have, and what you want to keep.
We’ll figure out the hosting part from there.