DATA SOLUTIONS & WEB HOSTING
DATA SOLUTIONS & WEB HOSTING
Private, secure, high-performance systems on a reliable network you can trust!
HOSTING SOLUTIONS
† You may connect your Tarheel Cloud account to your hosting account for file access from the cloud. This can void warranties to any work we have performed on your website as it gives you direct access to the source code of your website.
‡ The use of the infinity symbol is to show we do not meter the usage, but that does not mean unlimited or infinite. Your usage is subject to the fair use clause in the Terms of Service.
Unlike most web designers and digital marketing agencies, we don’t resell big brands to host our site or our customers’ sites. They believe in big brands, and we believe in local small businesses.
Big box hosting companies cram as many websites on their servers as possible leaving little to no resources for a properly customized WordPress website. That means everyone’s performance suffers and if your website performs poorly, so will your SEO and lead generation and capture. Our policy, as our cheapest solution is that you share a core 10 ways, not 1,000 ways like the big guys.
Here is the dirty truth other marketing firms and designers won’t tell you: They don’t have root access to their servers and when something goes wrong, they’re at the mercy of those big companies and powerless to do anything about it. We’re not. We have systems administrators on staff to fix whatever issue that arises.
We have a write-up here as to why we use Virtualmin but have a look for yourself because every image you see, contains a critical feature cPanel lacks:
THE WEB SERVER
Our servers run Apache2 with several mods for security.
PHP
We also run PHP versions 8.0 and up (some previous, secure versions of 7.x are used in some edge cases). You may select the PHP version for your website (and can be selected per virtual host for php-fpm and per directory for FCGI).
OTHER SERVER-SIDE SCRIPTS
Our servers also support Ruby on rails, CGI, Perl, Python, Node, and more.
DATABASES
Available databases are MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQLite
EMAIL SERVER
The email server is postfix and is slaved to the main email server (mail.tarheel.media) which means your server will act as a secondary and you should setup your DNS MX records to reflect that.
SECURITY
We utilized a layered approach to all of our servers and networks.
EDGE FIREWALL
We use proprietary technology to filter data ingression to our networks. We check for many types of attacks and filter out brute force attacks via connection tracking.
SERVER FIREWALLS
Each server uses a combination of IP Tables, Config Server, and Fail2Ban for a multi-functional approach combining both firewall security and application security by log monitoring.
WORDPRESS WEB APPLICATION FIREWALL
We utilize a proprietary web application firewall for WordPress. This firewall checks for many attacks against WordPress including stopping the targeting of venerable plugins BEFORE they become zero-day exploits, and brute force detection as well as 2-factor authentication.
OUR BRANDING WORK
