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You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your service at any time—there are no penalties or long-term contracts.

	Starter For personal websites with low traffic.	Gold For small businesses new to the web.	Platinum For growing businesses that need more.
Monthly Fee No contract; cancel anytime.	$9.98	$19.99	$49.99
One-Time Setup Fee	$5	$3	Free
Included Personalized Domain Names (yourname.com)	Available as an Add-on	1	3
Email Addresses With Your Domain Name (support@yourname.com)	Available as an Add-on	5 Email boxes	50 Email boxes
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
Web Pages	5	Unlimited	Unlimited
Advertising Credit			Advertising credit of $10/month (e.g., to run ads on Google)
Phone Support	30 days	90 days	Unlimited
Online Technical Support	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Maximum Storage Space	25 MB	100 MB	300 MB
Maximum Data Transfer (Bandwidth)	5 GB/month	15 GB/month	25 GB/month
Accept Credit Card Payments 24/7 (PayPal)
Site Traffic Reports
Online Control Panel
MySQL Databases
Microsoft® FrontPage® Extensions
Dreamweaver Compatible
Parked Domains
CGI-BIN
FTP Accounts
Online User Statistics
PHP Support
PERL Support
PYTHON Support
SSI - Server Side Includes
Customizable Error Pages
POP3
SMTP
IMAP
Email Accounts
Email Forwarding
Email Auto Responders
Web Mail
Mailing List
Spam Protection
Catch-All Address
osCommerce Shopping Cart
Cube Cart Shopping Cart
Zen Cart Shopping Cart
Password Protected Directories
OpenPGP / GPG Encryption
Shared SSL Certificate
99.9% Uptime
2,000 Mbit Connectivity
Tape Backup
Power Generator
24/7/365 Server Monitoring
Fantastico Script Library
Blogs
Streaming Video Support
Streaming Audio Support
Real Media Audio & Video Support
Flash Support
Macromedia Shockwave Support
MIDI File Support
Own Mime Types
ASP	Available	Available	Available
JSP	Available	Available	Available
Dedicated IP	Available	Available	Available
Dedicated SSL Certificate	Available	Available	Available
Anonymous Domain Registration	Available	Available	Available

30-Day Money Back Guarantee

If — for any reason — you are not 100% satisfied with Growing Foundations hosting your website, just call us (1-800-710-1998) within the first 30 days. You'll get a refund for your hosting if it has been less then one Month.

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Web Pages

A web page displays information (text, graphics, links, audio and/or video) in the window of a Web browser in a format that can be scrolled, viewed, printed, or saved like any single document. Multiple web pages are linked together under a single domain name to form a website. If you need to present a lot of information on your site, it's best to present it as several short Web pages organized by topic and sub-topic. This ensures each page downloads quickly, and visitors aren't overwhelmed with information. (Generally, we recommend limiting each web page to under 100KB in size and under 1 and a half to 2 screens long.) Our Gold and Platinum packages allow you to publish an unlimited number of web pages and an unlimited number of websites, restricted only by the total storage space required by the files. Our Starter package is limited to one website of up to five pages.

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Run Ads on Major Search Engines

Capture new business with zero effort. Growing Foundations's optional SearchLight service places a clickable ad for your business directly in front of people searching for what you're selling. The "Starter Level" Searchlight service costs $29.99/month, but our Platinum package includes a $10/month credit, and we'll even wave the setup fee, so you pay nothing! Our experts do everything, from choosing the search words (keywords) that will trigger your ad, to creating the ad and placing it with the popular search engines, including Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. You're guaranteed a minimum of 100 clicks per year from Google and Yahoo. For a greater number of clicks, upgrade to our Standard or Turbo SearchLight package. You'll still save $30/month with your Platinum account.

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Personalized Domain Names

A domain name is a label that identifies the location—or "address"—of a website on the Internet and directs Web browsers just like the street address on an envelope. (Example: http://www.yourbusinessname.com) Publishing your website (and receiving your email) at your company's own domain name conveys the impression of a well-established, professional firm, so you can compete more effectively with larger companies. Registering a domain name costs an average of $9 to $50 per year if you do it yourself, but it's included with any Growing Foundations QuickSites account. We'll even handle the renewals for you.

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Domain-Branded Email Accounts

Send and receive email under your company’s unique domain, and read it on any Web browser, in or out of the office. Our email program “Hmail” is drag and drop simple and includes auto-reply vacation announcements, automatic email forwarding, and a calendar tool that lets you check and update your schedule from anywhere. Growing Foundations servers also includes spam assasin anti-spam protection. Our Gold package includes 5 assignable accounts under your personalized domain name for you and your employees. Our Platinum packages handles up to 50 assignable accounts and also comes with the 2 accounts of the powerful Horde mailwhich has group calendaring and an easy way to organize messages and contacts.

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Toll-Free Live Support

Have a question or problem? Call 480-233-4616, and talk to our friendly, expert support staff right here in the U.S. They'll answer your questions and talk you through any task, viewing the results online at the same time you do. They can suggest domain names if your company's name is already taken. They can even help write your search engine ad. If you're not sure which QuickSites package is right for your business, they can help with that, too. Call them.

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Storage Space

As you create your website, the online software automatically saves the text, images, and any other content, and stores the files on secure Web servers that allow visitors to view your website 24 hours a day. To give you an idea how much space you might need, an average single Web page from the multi-page sites in our Design Library uses about 0.4MB (400K) of storage space. High-resolution images, audio and multimedia files generally use a lot more space than text files: a 1-minute audio file occupies about 1MB; a 1-minute video file about 4MB. You can keep tabs on the total disk space used by your site as you create it by checking your Growing Foundations Account Summary. Our Starter package allows up to 25MB of total storage space-that's about 12 times the size of the average, complete site in our Design Library. If you need more space, opt for our Gold package which offers up to 100MB of space, or our Platinum package, which includes up to 300MB. No matter which package you choose, you can upgrade to the next level if you find you need more storage space.

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Data Transfer (Bandwidth)

The amount of information visitors can download (and upload, if your website contains forms or blogs) from your website over a specified period of time. When a visitor views a page on your website, the text and images that make up that page travel from our server to their computer via the Internet. The bandwidth included with your account is the maximum volume of data that can be transferred to and from your website in a month. The larger your files, and the more visitors you have, the more bandwidth you'll need. If you're not sure how much bandwidth you need, our staff can help you. And you can always upgrade or downgrade later. Call us at 480-233-4616.

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Accept Credit Card Payments 24/7

Ring up credit card sales 24 hours a day without the expense and complexity of a merchant account. If you're selling 10 or fewer products on your site, a PayPal Shopping Cart is the way to go. Customers just click the PayPal button to buy multiple items with a single payment. (If your primary purpose is to develop an ecommerce store, then we recommend creating your site with our full-feature ecommerce package, StoreFront.) PayPal credit card payment processing is included in our Gold and Platinum packages at no additional charge.

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Website Hosting

Growing Foundations gives you secure hosting with 99.9% uptime.

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Customizable Designs

Select from over 2000 professionally designed websites created for 100 specific types of businesses, from talent agents to wedding planners. Each design includes multiple pages, images, and even usable text created just for your industry. Customize the site any way you like with our incredibly easy, intuitive online tools. Or download the software to your PC at no additional charge for even more powerful customizing features.

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Site Traffic Reports

All QuickSites packages provide valuable "real-time" reports that help you fine-tune your site and your advertising. See which pages are most popular, where your visitors are coming from, how they're navigating your site, and more.

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Online Technical Support

Our online Help Center offers a wealth of information, and if you need further assistance, you can contact our online business support team to reach agents located in the US.

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Monthly fee

A monthly fee that covers hosting your website on our secure, reliable servers. Growing Foundations for all business needs.

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One-time setup fee

A one-time processing fee that covers setting up your account in the Growing Foundations system.

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Best value for...

simple businesses presenting basic company information.

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Best value for...

growing businesses needing more than 5 pages (for multiple product lines or service areas or portfolio samples), or more than one site (multiple brands).

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Best value for...

generating new business quickly at low cost, and for presenting large amounts of information (pages, sites, or large images).

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