Cybershore

Web hosting from a Connecticut data center

Cybershore hosts websites for businesses on the Connecticut shoreline from a Tier 1 data center. The company says its servers carry close to a thousand local businesses. The facility is managed for cooling and backed by generators, and the company takes a backup of each customer's site every six hours, keeping them on a rolling seven-day cycle so that a problem can be reversed within the week.

Hosting is sold alongside the other services the firm provides, and the company describes its prices as competitive while being clear that it is not the largest or the cheapest host available. Its pitch is that clients get a small company that knows them by name and responds personally when something goes wrong.

Website design built for phones and desktops

The web design team works on custom sites and keeps a portfolio of past work for prospective clients to review. The firm says it specializes in WordPress sites that are simple and clean, and that they look right on a desktop computer as well as on a phone. It points to the growth of mobile browsing as the reason every site has to work well on a small screen, since most people now go online through their phones every day.

E-commerce and search visibility

Cybershore builds and tunes online shops so that customers can buy from them easily. It also provides search engine optimization, which it describes as the work of improving how a site appears in Google, Bing and other search engines. The company explains that the process depends on understanding how search engines rank pages and which terms a business's own customers type when they look for a service like theirs. The more closely a site matches those terms, the firm says, the more visitors it is likely to receive.

Email hosting with filtering

Business email is hosted with spam and virus protection, so that staff mailboxes receive less unwanted traffic. The company presents this as part of the same package as the website and hosting, so that a client can keep domain, site and mail with one provider and one support contact.

Support and the Connecticut customer base

The firm serves local Connecticut businesses, Its customers are concentrated in towns such as Guilford and Madison. Support calls reach staff, never an automated phone menu, and the company says it takes time to get to know each customer. Its own key facts put the firm in Guilford, Connecticut, and say it was founded in 1996.