If you run a business on the Grand Strand and you are looking for web hosting in Myrtle Beach, the question worth asking is not who has the cheapest plan. It is who answers the phone when your site goes down during a holiday weekend, and who actually updates your pages when your hours or your menu change.
We have hosted websites for businesses in Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Conway and Pawleys Island since 1999. We are not a reseller. We run the servers, we administer them ourselves, and the person who picks up the phone can go and look at your server.
What is included with every hosting account
- 30 minutes of free site updates every month. Text changes, new photos, updated hours, a new seasonal menu, a golf package that changed price. You email us, we do it, usually within 24 business hours. This applies to sites transferred in from another host too.
- A test copy of your site. Every hosted site gets a complete copy running on a test server. Changes are applied and checked there, then published to the live site with one click. Nothing goes live untested.
- A built-in content management system so you can edit any page yourself and publish when you are ready.
- Unlimited technical support from the people who run the servers.
- A standard SSL certificate so your site is served over HTTPS.
- Live traffic statistics with a year or more of history you can view online or download.
The full list is on our website hosting plans and features page.
Seasonal traffic is the reason the free updates matter
Myrtle Beach businesses do not have a flat year. A restaurant near Broadway at the Beach runs different hours in July than in February. A watersport rental company changes its lineup with the season. A bed and breakfast in Surfside Beach adjusts rates and minimum stays. A golf course publishes new packages several times a year.
Every one of those is a website change, and on most hosting accounts it is either a bill or a job you do yourself at 11pm. The 30 minutes a month covers the ordinary seasonal churn, which is why our clients here tend to keep their sites current instead of letting them drift a season behind.
Taking card payments: PCI compliant hosting
If you sell online, take deposits for rentals or tee times, or store card data in any form, you need infrastructure built for it. Our PCI compliant servers include an SSL certificate, quarterly PCI scans, the ASV scan report, and 24/7/365 support from people who work on compliance every week rather than reading from a script. The data centers are SSAE-16, HIPAA and Safe Harbor certified.
For medical and dental practices along the coast, we also offer HIPAA compliant hosting for applications that handle patient information.
Business email that is not your internet provider's
Plenty of Grand Strand businesses are still running email on an address from their internet provider or a free mailbox, which looks careless on a quote and gets filtered as spam more often than people realize. Business email hosting on your own domain includes spam and virus filtering, works with Outlook, Apple Mail and phones, and moves with you if you ever change internet providers.
Calendars, booking and text messaging
- Online booking so clients book appointments or rentals against your real availability, synced with Google and Apple calendars.
- CalDAV calendar hosting for shared calendars several staff can edit, and WebDAV calendar hosting to publish a calendar to your website.
- Managed SMS and MMS messaging from your own dedicated number, with carrier registration, compliance and opt-outs handled for you.
- E-signatures for rental agreements and contracts, with counter-signing and a full signing record. No printer, no scanner.
Already have a site somewhere else?
Moving an existing site to us is routine, and the free monthly updates start as soon as it lands. We copy the site, stand it up on the test server, check it, then cut the domain over. Most transfers involve no visible downtime. If your current host has you on an outdated version of PHP or an unpatched WordPress install, we will tell you what needs doing before we move it rather than after.
If you manage your own server and just want it looked after properly, see our server administrator plans, which include two hours of maintenance a month.
We will come and see you
We are based in North Carolina and we meet Grand Strand clients in person. If you would rather talk it through across a table than over email, that is available and it is not an upsell. Our full Myrtle Beach web design services page covers the design and marketing side, and our hosting overview lists everything the hosting department does.
Get in touch to talk about moving your site, or ask us what the free monthly updates would cover for your business. Since 1999, and the same people are still answering.