NameStand provides web and Internet services for businesses, organizations, community groups, families, and individuals who would rather spend their time using technology than fighting with it.
Some customers need the whole package. Others need one particular piece.
We’re fine either way.
Pick what works for you
NameStand services are available à la carte.
If you want us to host your website but prefer to keep your domain somewhere else, that’s fine.
If you need custom development but already have hosting you like, that’s fine too.
If all you need is email on your own domain, domain assistance, or help moving a website, we can handle that without insisting that everything else move with it.
Use what you need. Keep what already works. We don’t get offended if you cherry-pick.
Technology should give you choices, not take them away.
Web Hosting
Dependable hosting gives your website a place to live without making server administration your newest hobby.
NameStand provides hosting for websites ranging from personal projects and community organizations to business sites and custom applications.
The goal is straightforward: provide a solid hosting environment, explain what you’re getting, and be available when something needs attention.
Custom Web Development
Sometimes an off-the-shelf website does everything you need.
Sometimes it doesn’t.
NameStand provides custom web development for projects that need something more specific, whether that’s a new website, improvements to an existing one, custom functionality, or help turning an idea into a working web presence.
Development starts with the problem that needs to be solved, not with a predetermined collection of tools.
The technology should fit the project.
The project shouldn’t have to fit the technology.
Email on Your Own Domain
Still using @gmail.com for your business?
You’re advertising Google every time you send an email. Why not advertise your own business instead?
And you don’t need to own a business to use your own domain for email. A personalized address such as you@yourdomain.com gives an individual, family, business, club, nonprofit, church, or other organization an email identity that belongs to them.
NameStand can provide email service using your own domain, whether that domain represents a business, organization, family, personal identity, or something else entirely.
If you already own a domain, or want one specifically for email, NameStand can help put your name after the @.
Already happy with your website and hosting? Great. Keep them.
Email is available as a service on its own. You don’t have to move your website or domain registration to NameStand simply because you want us to handle your email.
When our email offerings are finalized, we’ll provide clear information about the available options, features, and pricing.
From Dynamic CMS to Static Site
WordPress or Joomla site get hacked? Tired of maintaining plugins, extensions, themes, and CMS updates?
A traditional content management system can be the right tool for some websites, but not every site needs server-side software generating pages every time somebody visits.
For appropriate websites, NameStand can convert an existing WordPress, Joomla, or similar CMS-based site to a workflow that generates static HTML, CSS, images, and other site assets for publication.
You still maintain the site’s content through an organized content system, but the public-facing website can be served primarily as generated files rather than depending on the full CMS application and database to produce every page.
That can reduce the amount of application software exposed on the public website and simplify ongoing hosting for sites that don’t require dynamic CMS functionality.
It isn’t the right answer for every website. Stores, membership systems, complex authenticated applications, and other highly dynamic sites may still need application code running on the server.
But if your site is primarily pages, articles, news, documentation, events, or other published content, you may not need an entire dynamic CMS sitting on the public Internet just to serve it.
Your website should be publishing content, not collecting plugins.
Website Maintenance & Improvements
Not every website needs to be replaced.
Sometimes the right answer is to fix what isn’t working, update what has become dated, improve usability, add needed functionality, or clean up years of accumulated changes.
NameStand can help maintain and improve existing websites without automatically turning every request into a complete rebuild.
If the existing site still has good bones, we’d rather work with them than swing a wrecking ball for sport.
Website Migrations
Moving a website should be a planned technical process, not an adventure.
NameStand can help move existing websites between hosting environments while addressing the related pieces that can make a migration more complicated than simply copying files.
The exact migration requirements depend on the website and its current environment, so migration work is evaluated individually rather than treated as a one-size-fits-all task.
Domains & DNS
Your domain name is one of the most important pieces of your online identity.
NameStand can help with domain-related services and DNS configuration without requiring you to move everything under one roof.
If your domain is already registered somewhere you’re happy with, keep it there.
If you want help managing the technical side, ask.
Technical Help
Sometimes the problem doesn’t fit neatly into a product box.
A website may be misbehaving. DNS may need attention. Email may not be reaching its destination. An existing setup may need to be untangled before anybody can decide what should happen next.
NameStand’s experience reaches beyond simply selling hosting accounts.
If a problem involves websites, hosting, domains, DNS, email, or the systems connecting those pieces, there’s a good chance we can help make sense of it.
Supporting Southeast Mississippi
NameStand has called Southeast Mississippi home since January 2019.
We’re particularly interested in helping local businesses, nonprofit organizations, churches, clubs, associations, community groups, and other local organizations establish and maintain useful web presences.
Our services aren’t limited to Southeast Mississippi, but this is home.
Sometimes local organizations need a complete website and hosting package. Sometimes they already have most of what they need and just want help with one troublesome piece.
Either approach is fine with us.
Supporting Southeast Mississippi isn’t a marketing category for us. It’s supporting the communities we call home.
Let’s figure out what you actually need
You don’t need to buy every service NameStand offers.
You don’t need to transfer a perfectly good domain registration just because we host your website.
You don’t need to replace an email service you’re happy with because we built your site.
And you don’t need to move your hosting simply because you want us to develop something.
Start with the problem you actually need solved.
We’ll go from there.