Greetings from your team at Apollo Hosting,

Spring is rapidly approaching and with it comes a sense of renewal, so why not apply that to your website as well? Was your site rushed, did you feel you weren't able to give the design the attention it truly disserves, or are you just looking to shake out the cobwebs with a new, fresh look. Site Symphony can provide your site the sprucing up it requires.

We have more information on our upcoming support initiative, so be sure to check that out.

Finally, we take a brief look at why successful marketing brings with it additional considerations. Apollo Hosting knows your online success is our success as well, so we provide a rich upgrade path to allow your website to grow with your success. Learn more in the Hosting Help section.

The A-Team

Site Symphony is a platform-independent, browser-based website design solution available to all customers of Apollo Hosting. Through a web browser you can quickly and easily choose a template from a selection of over 700, add content, and publish a professional website in just minutes.

General Features
The enhanced interface is easy to use for the beginner, and powerful enough for the professional looking for a quick and dependable design solution. The content editing system functions much like popular word processing programs, just right in your browser window. The editor allows users to

• change fonts, styles, headers
• bold, italicize, underline
• create tables
• add graphics, including customized graphics
• add META & Title information to each page
• and much more...

Custom pictures and images can be uploaded, and powerful features like photo galleries, banner links, search engine tag control, flash animations, language translator, maps and built-in counters may easily be implemented. Site Symphony can provide that media-rich look that dazzles the eyes without learning all the HTML to make it work. If you do know HTML, the editor allows you to open up the code and tweak it directly, so experienced designers can still benefit from the tools Site Symphony provides.

Ecommerce Features
Complete ecommerce capabilities are another part of the broad feature set available to Site Symphony users. Unlike many site builders, the storefront system in Site Symphony can integrate with an existing merchant account /payment gateway solution. Users can set up a secure store and begin selling their products by check payments, PayPal or any credit card supported by their merchant account. The storefront is ideal for startups with a small catalog who are eager to get their products online.

All Apollo Hosting customers receive a free 3-page version of Site Symphony to try out. Try it out at no risk. To learn more & sign up, click here...

Sample Templates

In the coming weeks, customers will be receiving an emails providing them with a very important piece of information. The emails will contain your "Customer ID Number," or CID. This CID is part of our initiative to upgrade our support structure and provide you the best customer service experience possible.

Your CID will help streamline your support requests, allow us to provide you faster assistance, and better track your support history. The CID allows us to keep your support history from tickets, chat, and phone in one location, giving our techs the ability to know if you have open support tickets whenever you contact us.

Please make sure your contact information is up to date, and feel free to contact us via email @ support@apollohosting.com or via chat if you have any questions.

Dealing With Success

We have a lot of new toys to play with on the web. First came images, but the flood gates opened to scripts, databases, server-side programming languages, and full-fledged media, streaming and otherwise. There's really no practical limit to the amount of these elements one can shoehorn onto a web page.

The introduction of shopping carts and similar database driven applications to the web greatly increased its functionality, but it also greatly increased the amount of horsepower required to handle sites employing that technology. Ecommerce hosting is a big culprit, as shopping carts are one of the more complex web apps out there. Popularity is a double-edged sword, as the more customers your site services means more power is necessary to run it effectively.

Obviously you want more customers, but you need to be prepared to deal with your success.

If your store is sluggish and not responding as quickly as you'd like, then it might be time to seriously consider a hosting upgrade. Listen to your users, test your site. If you think things have "slowed down" recently, see if all that marketing mojo you're working is paying off and your visitors are increasing. Remember, all those new customers are great for your business, but they mean more resources for the server running your site.

Apollo provides a variety of upgrade paths beyond simple shared hosting so your site can grow with your success. Consider a VPS if you're still using a shared plan, or even a fully dedicated server. Dedicated servers are just that, fully dedicated to your website, with no other users providing "distractions" to the smooth operation of your storefront, your livelihood.

Learn more about VPS and Dedicated Hosting Solutions...

Free Setup on All VPS in February!

For a limited time, our VPS hosting plans include free setup! Enjoy the power and flexibility of VPS from Apollo Hosting, an experienced VPS hosting provider.

Are you a customer on a legacy Basic, Deluxe, Commerce, or Commerce Plus plan? Trade in that old hosting plan for a new, modern shared, VPS or even dedicated account. Customers on our legacy platform can have our skilled techs move their site for FREE! .

Check our Discount SiteMove page for more details and step up to a modern shared, VPS, or dedicated hosting account today!

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