Joomla-friendly hosting - boost your site with the proper hosting package

If you need reliable hosting with a human being you can talk to if something goes awry, via our Left Brain Hosting service we are offering a variety of packages to meet your needs. The main focus is to offer to our customers a convenient solution - an one-stop shop - a single place to handle all of their web-related needs. So the focus is not on money-making, but offering a quality service, personalized, tailored for each customer specific needs. If you're tired of trying to track down the right person for the job, stop right now. With experience spanning more, than three decades we can get you past the run around, get you up and running and keep you going with as little or as much support as you need. With a pragmatic approach, and refreshingly straightforward pricing, we'll have you up and running in less time than many firms out there are putting together a proposal meant mainly to make your head spin. You don't need to shop around for the domain name, hosting package, site building, development, maintenance, SEO, social media, security, audit, de-hacking services, you get them all in one place.

Joomla-friendly means literally a hosting tuned to best support Joomla - our main development focus, and our top expertise. But we are hosting other CMS-es too, Drupal, WordPress, Typo-3, simple HTML sites - and even simple, one page raw PHP sites too. The key emphasis there is not the technology used, but the human relations behind: we are hosting almost exclusively sites we built, we contributed to, or at least sites of people we have excellent business relationship with. We are proud of the passion-driven service we offer, the quality of our output, the quality of our working relationships with one another, and work/life balance. Of course, we need to put bread on the table, on every day, but if we're not helping improve your quality of work life and maintaining and improving our own, what's the point, really?

Affiliates

Our affiliate system was set up with nonprofits in mind: if you are a NGO with a site below 300MB footprint, you can have a free hosting at our server via our affiliate system by referring us 2-3 clients (depending the hosting packages they use).

The payments they make will partially or fully finance your hosting account. The basic affiliate commission is 10%, and is recurring – from all payments made by the referred clients you got 10% granted during the contracted period for the new accounts.

We can also provide support and services for your existing hosting environment if all you really need is an occasional hand dealing with technical issues and/or strategic decisions. These services cover various areas, from support in decisions, web hosting/website related consultancy to site building, site defence, cleaning and sanitizing, SEO services, etc.

If you need reliable hosting with a human being you can talk to if something goes awry,

Malware doesn't discriminate. It doesn’t only infect popular sites. In fact, most malware attacks are automated, which means you’re as much of a target as anyone. And if you do get infected, it can do more than disrupt your site – it can ruin your reputation.

For as low as^* 250USD/200€ we will examine your site, will quarantine and remove all infected files, cleaning your WordPress install from hacker's code, and notify Google that it is now safe and remove the warning. As part of our company policy wich includes hardening WordPress installs as we are working them, you will benefit from this too, we will add our tried and true of free WordPress security components and apply our best security related settings to make your site more hacker proof in the future. We offer a quick restoration service that gets your website back up and running and installs safeguards to help prevent future hacking.

We will:

• Remove malicious scripts and files from your web space
• Clean your WordPress theme and uploads folder
• Install the latest version of WordPress
• Reinstall the latest versions of the plugins you use
• Change all your passwords to very strong secure ones
• Secure your WordPress website
• Hardening your site with addition of extra software protection layer
• Installing an early warning system
• Install a simple backup system
• Get your website up and running again

Depending on how many plugins and uploads a site has, this process is very time consuming.  Restoration time depends on how many files make up your website as they all need to get checked.

Get your site cleaned and back in order!

* Actual prices can vary. On the evaluation phase we will notify you if the actual situation requires more efforts/resources - so bigger price. But generally, on most cases our initial price for cleaning hacked sites will cover all expenses.

 - your first step to learn about your site's security status

Malware doesn't discriminate. It doesn’t only infect popular sites. In fact, most malware attacks are automated, which means you’re as much of a target as anyone. And if you do get infected, it can do more than disrupt your site – it can ruin your reputation. Even if we recommend to everyone to request our Joomla Security Update service, we also offer an one-time Joomla Security audit to let you know how your site is looking like security wise, what are the security leaks you need to be aware of and what are our recommendations to prevent your site from being hacked.

You must be aware, that we don't do any changes to your site, we just examine it in order to build for you a list of recommendations! Based on the results, you can decide about what to do next based on the real security status of your Joomla site

Here is a list of what we usually checking. The list is only a restricted sample of our usual tasks, the complete list varies depending on your version of Joomla, your installed extensions, the server environment you use and several other factors.

• Your .htaccess file has been modified recently (301 re-directs away from your site, or to pages that aren't familiar)
• The files belonging to the version of Joomla you have are EXACTLY the same as the ones in the official packages
• Your config.php file was changed recently
• Any of your template files was changed recently
• You have files/directories which should not be there (odd index.php files in directories where they should not to be, for example)
• Your database has oddly named tables
• Your image directory (and couple of other similar directories) has files in it that end in something other than an image format extension, such as ".php"
• You have administrative users in the backend you don't are aware of!
• You have weird back-links, your page has unusual keywords in search-engine indexes
• With Google beginning to mask almost all keywords, it's harder nowadays to find out if users are coming to your site using keywords common to spammers (like pharma terms or payday loans). Still, it's worth digging into your analytics and also checking your Joomla search history in the backend to see what kinds of information people are attempting to find on your site.
• You have outdated extensions or extensions with known vulnerabilities
• Your site is listed by any blacklisting service, has bad WOT (Word of Trust) or any similar ratings
• Your site contains any known malware code.

Joomla Support Contract from €60.00 per month (€1.97 per day)

Although Joomla! is unanimously considered one of the most reliable CMS it is very important, for the safety of your web site to keep it constantly updated. Most hacked Joomla websites are a result of Joomla or extensions not being kept up to date. Our Joomla starter contract cover the essentials to keep your website up to date and to have an affordable support retained:

• Joomla Security Update package
• Plus up to 90 minutes support per month

We do not limit the number of updates installed each month to Joomla or covered extensions.

Joomla support contract customers can use their support minutes in the following areas:

• General website help and support
• Content updates and creating new pages
• Search engine optimization
• Template tweaks
• Creating contact forms
• Selecting extensions
• Installing and configuring extensions
• Installing and configuring modules
• Changes to menus
• Consultancy and advise

Support contracts are for a specific website and are for a minimum of 12 months. Unused support time can be used in the next month only, being basically a form of support retainer: you can be sure that anytime during our business hours you can use the prepaid time you have in your contract, having priority over other customers. Contracts can be negotiated to contain more services/more retained support time, or you can use our Pay-as-you-go Joomla support to add extra support time to your contract as needed.