We put nearly every client we service onto the Google Apps email platform.

Here’s a brief explanation of why:

Google Apps is not just an email platform, it’s a full suite of services and infrastructure including Google Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Youtube, and so much more.  This suite is a powerful set of tools with which a small business can improve their productivity and streamline their process.

Google SPAM filtering is top of the line, and benefits from the shared judgement of over 500 million users.

It’s easy to setup on nearly every device, including iPhones, Android devices, and Windows Mobile.  It also works well with Microsoft Outlook.

It’s cheap.  While $50/user per year isn’t quite free, for what you get, it’s pretty cheap, less than $4.50/month.  For what you get it’s a great deal!

To ensure that we never loose a single file from your website, and that we are always able to repair/restore rapidly from any issue that we may encounter, we rely on a triple redundant system of backups.

This system is anchored by the long term trust which our preferred host, ICDSoft has, earned and the internal backups which they perform every 3 days.  This is our first layer of contingency.  Should any issue occur, we can restore the website to what it looks like at a point in the last 72 hours with just a few clicks.

Our second layer of redundancy involves a complete weekly backup stored on the ICDSoft servers.  This backup is a snapshot of your entire website take once per week.  If an issue arises that is not caught in the first 72 hours, this backup is designed to offer us a 2nd contingency point from which to restore with just a few clicks.

Our final redundancy includes an offsite backup of your website, completed bimonthly, and stored (depending upon our client’s preferences) in Dropbox or Google Drive.  While this backup cannot be restored with just a few clicks, should disaster strike, we can use it to restore your website in a few hours, and ensure that no matter what happens, the equity you’ve built in your website is always safeguarded.

When clients ask us about our hosting, we proudly explain that our hosting is provided by ICD Soft.  This trusted partner has been in business since 1994 and provides us the highest quality hosting and backup services in the industry.

With server’s throughout the world, ICD Soft provides Transcending Creative with a trusted, 99.997% uptime solution and nearly instantaneous support 24/7/365.  The friend who referred our company described her experience by saying that she had “never had a website down because of hosting problems”.

With over 120,000 domains hosted on their platform they provide one service, and do it very, very well!

We are a proud reseller of this service and would recommend it to anyone!

For those of you who need anymore proof, check out their Testimonials.