Web Services

Waltenstein Productions is pleased to support your business or organization by providing several key IT services that allow your staff to focus on your core business. Our services listing includes the following:

Website Hosting Services

Waltenstein Basic Hosting Package - $150.00/year, plus our normal hourly rate for initial setup time including file upload, application configuration (if required, i.e. photo gallery, blog, forums, CMS, or similar), setting domain pointers, email accounts, etc. The package includes all of the following, but does not include any subsequent changes or add-ons to your website or email accounts, see below for Maintenance Packages. All packages subject to change without prior notice.
Total Disk Usage (including website, email, etc.) 2 GB
Domain Name Registration (one domain) 1 included
POP3 email accounts, including webmail interface (future changes not included) 1 included if requested
Bandwidth Limitation (including all traffic, such as web, FTP, email, streaming video, etc.) 20 GB/month
FTP accounts 1 included if requested
MySQL or PostgreSQL databases (needed for photo gallery, blog, forums, CMS, e-commerce, etc.) 1 included for each installed application
AWStats site usage statistics included in all new installations
High performance servers with UPS and back-up power generator included
24/7 hardware monitoring included
Site backups upon request
High speed Internet backbone connection included
Hosting Package Add-ons:
Additional Domain Name - registration of one additional domain name (if available), and setup to forward to your main domain name. Yearly fee by domain name, as follows (plus setup time):
  • .com - $15/year
  • .net, .org, .biz - $20/year
  • Other domains - call for quote
Domain prices are subject to change based on our sourcing costs.
Backorder Additional Domain Name - attempt to register one additional domain name that is already owned by another party, if/when it becomes available, and setup to forward to your main domain name. Note that this service is not guaranteed to get you a domain name! Please contact us if you have any questions about this service. $30.00 per backorder (plus setup time), plus $15.00/year after the first year while waiting (plus Additional Domain Name fees if/when actual purchase is made)
Higher Database Limit - each additional MySQL or PostgreSQL database $25.00/year (plus setup time)
Email or FTP Changes - Any changes or requests for aliases/forwarding, new employee setup, password change, etc. after initial website setup. at normal hourly rate, as below
Spam Filtering Service - Our web server uses Postini, which requires a yearly subscription fee. $20.00/year, per email address (plus setup time)
Advanced Services (blogs, e-commerce, photo gallery, etc.) see below

Don't forget to add a maintenance plan (see below) to ensure that your email addresses and website content are always updated as needed for the duration of your hosting!

Web Application Administration Services

Waltenstein also provides an extensive list of application services which can be installed and configured for use by your business or organization. Please contact us for a detailed quote, depending on your project specifications.

Partial list of Applications which can be installed and configured:
Category Examples (partial list)
Blogs b2evolution, WordPress, etc. - These allow you to tell your story over time, so that your visitors can follow your progress as it happens.
Content Management Systems Drupal, Joomla, PHP-Nuke, etc. These provide an extensive framework inside which your website content is managed by your staff directly with WYSIWYG editors and interactive configuration menus.
Discussion Boards phpBB2 and SMF, also known as Forums, or Message Boards.
Customer Assistance online help chat, customer generated support tickets, public help desk, etc., with several packages available.
E-Commerce CubeCart, OS Commerce, and Zen Cart
Custom database hosting PostgreSQL, MySQL
Multimedia & Video Integration Flash video, podcasting, WMV, QuickTime
Guestbook ViPER Guestbook
Image Galleries 4Images, Coppermine, Gallery2
Mailing Lists PHPList
Customer Surveys PHPSurveyor, Advanced Poll
Project Management dotProject (a great alternative to MS Project)
Wiki TikiWiki, PhpWiki (community/collaborative content creation)
Web Calendar includes public and private calendars
Other applications If you can dream it, we can probably make it happen. Just ask!

Website Maintenance Packages

For administrative or maintenance items which are not specifically priced above, time is billed on an hourly basis, with a 1/2 hour minimum per incident. If you feel that you're likely to be needing more than just occasional assistance, Waltenstein offers discounted rate packages for bulk purchase of administrative and maintenance services (please inquire by phone or email if you'd like to discuss these). Please note that most service requests are generally addressed quickly (usually within 24 hours), but time to completion is not guaranteed.