Hosting is important. Mind Imaging currently uses a 3rd party hosting solution that is very economical and reliable. We have partnered with industry giant Doteasy© who are also registars for most domains. Mind Imaging can also use who ever you are currently using for your hosting company to design your website, provided the package your site is currently using allows for the proper server extensions to be used for the site.

The way websites communicate to your computer roughly is through DNS servers. Domain Name Servers are powerful computers who have giant lists of domain names that are matched up to IP numbers... sort of a websites phone number. Your computer talks to lots of DNS servers to get to the web server... another powerful computer, that houses the files for the site you are looking for. DNS servers tell your computer which web server has the website you typed into the address bar, or clicked on an address link.

Hosting is the web server part of the equation. Which server your websites files are stored at, and what that machine allows it to do is called hosting. There are lots of levels of service, generically these levels are called server extensions. These are applications the web server uses to encode and display items on your website. Database access and PHP are some of these types of extensions.

Mind Imaging can guide you through this maze of options and find the best economical solution for your businesses websites needs.