Web hosting is a service which consists in making your website available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on a secure computer connected to the Internet (web server). A host thus allows you, among other things, to make your website accessible to everyone, 24 hours a day.
Why use a web host?
If you want to use the Internet to make content available to Internet users, you will need a server for storing your data that is permanently connected. To do this, it is much easier and more economical to use a web host than to venture out on your own to establish an Internet server.
A host will guarantee you sufficient bandwidth for many simultaneous visitors as well as the security devices necessary for the proper functioning and protection of your data.
A professional host like manages thousands of accommodations, which brings big operating advantages that benefit all of the host’s customers.
Does ECS Informatique offer web hosting services?
The answer is yes. But we only host websites created with us! therefore respecting a specific architecture and technologies. By creating your website with ECS Informatique, you choose a package from among our main hosting packages made available to its customers.
Web hosting with ECS Informatique?
ECS Informatique has three main web hosting packages, the costs of which vary depending on:
- Traffic or Bandwidth: Each time a user visits your site or uses an offer from your page, some of the web traffic capacity is used. Images and other media increase consumption;
- Storage space – also known as webspace – stores all the media on your website, including html files, images, videos, downloads, and the like. The data is stored on the hard drive of the hosting server located with our partners. This is why the storage space is limited to a certain dimension;
- Domain: Each website has a domain. The domain name is of utmost importance because it is an essential factor for search engines. All of our hosting offers include a free domain name. In addition, when you select your web hosting offer, it is recommended that you check the availability of the chosen domain name. Click here to check the availability of the chosen domain name
- The number of professional emails
- The number of databases that can be installed
A brief overview of our packages for hosting your website
Useful note:
How to proceed to host your website using one of our packages?
- choice and purchase of a package either directly through the payment options offered by the site (Orange Money, MTN Mobile Money, Express Union, etc.), or by contacting us to proceed with this payment;
- Setting up your server and accessing your CPanel: After purchasing your hosting plan, our technical services configure your web server and provide you with the information allowing you to connect to your CPanel which is a tool designed to make it easier for you to manage your website;
- Acquiring a domain name: After configuring your server, you must purchase a domain name that will allow customers to access your website. It is also this domain name that identifies you on the internet. ECS Informatique also offers domain name sales services. The price of a domain name varies mainly according to its extension. At ECS Informatique, the .com, .org, .net and .cm domain names which are in fact the most used in Cameroon vary from 15,000 to 20,000 FCFA / year. Example of domain name: www.ecsinformatique.com;
- Creation or download of your website: Your website can then be deployed. If it was created locally or elsewhere, you can easily download it to your server through your CPanel. If, on the other hand, it has not yet been created, you can directly create it in your server from your CPanel. To facilitate the creation of your website, our CPanel offers you the possibility of installing in one Click the most popular CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Prestashop, etc. which are in fact tools to aid in the creation of modern websites.
A helping hand for the creation of your website?
To optimize your chances of being selected for this promotion, you can follow the following guidelines when filling out your online website quote form:
- You must be based in Cameroon or have representation in Cameroon
- Your website must have at most seven (07) pages
- It would be desirable for you to write the content of your pages on software such as Word and send them to us for processing, structuring and uploading;
- If an SSL security certificate (https) is integrated into your hosting plan, it is a good thing to maximize the security of your site and improve its positioning on search engine.
More informations
Whether you are in Bafoussam, Yaoundé, Douala, anywhere in Cameroon or even outside Cameroon, we are entirely at your service. Contact us to tell us about your project, whether it is creation, hosting, updating or any other web-related activity. We are convinced that we will get along, even if you have little money!
