Technology

Why Choose Us

Trick Hosting is dedicated to our customers.  We are a small company that packs a corporate sized punch. Here are a few other reasons why you should choose us.

  • Personal customer service - Your not just a number.  You have a name, and we will try to remember it.
  • Support Tickets and Live Help desk - No chatting with someone who can't reset the file permissions or change owner ship of the files when you need it. We are all system admins so you're always at the top.
  • Need something extra to host your custom script?  Let us know, and we will upgrade our servers at no cost to you.
  • Your fortune 500 company has out grown its shared hosting account. Well, good for you!  We will help you setup one of our semi dedicated or VPS accounts, and help you migrate everything over.
  • We use Open Source software & Operating Systems to reduce costs so we can provide you with the lowest price possible.

Server Technology

At Trick Hosting we use HP DL385 series servers.  This gives the power to host your most intense applications and websites.

Below are some of the features that each one of our servers incorporate.

  • Dual AMD Opteron dual cores at 2.4ghz each per core for a total of 9.6ghz per server.
  • 4 to 32GB of DDR memory depending on what type of server IE:database, webserver, mail server
  • 6x 72.3GB hard drives in raid 5, 5 for daily use and one for hot-swap spare.
  • Dual 1000mb network cards
  • Off Site Backup through encrypted ssh tunnels. Daily Tape backups are taken at off site to keep your data safe.

 

Trick Hosting's Control Pannel

 

The control pannel included with all of our shared hosting is ISPconfig Ver 3.0.4.1.

ISPConfig 3 is an open source hosting control panel for Linux which is capable of managing multiple servers from one control panel. ISPConfig is licensed under the BSD license.