Novelty Factor Hosting
Your dreams are our business, and we take business seriously. Novelty Factor Hosting is a service from Original Pursuits LLC, a company of dreamers dedicated to making them come true. Whether you want to create a hobby blog or a business website, we've got you covered. Build your own e-commerce store, photo gallery, portfolio, social network, or anything else with our 80+ one-click app installs.
Our powerful, bespoke hosting platform has been designed for you by experts. Novelty Factor Hosting provides an unbeatable load-balanced auto-scaling cloud-based shared hosting platform, meaning there's no single point of failure, and your website performance will never be affected by other users' websites, visitors or activity.
Batteries included.
Manage your websites: caching, optimizations, files, FTP, backups, e-mail, databases, DNS, and logs. *Powerful Control Panel
Everything you need in one place.
Web Optimizer
Control panel configurable PageSpeed web server module included.Content Delivery Network
Serve static files and cached dynamic pages close to your audience on our global network.
Timeline Backups
Access and restore automatic backups of files and databases for 30 days.Databases*
Unlimited 1GB MySQL databases with phpMyAdmin access, or remote database access.PHP
Set PHP version and basic configuration directives.*Scheduled Tasks
Run PHP, Ruby, Python, and Perl scripts at set times.*Website Tools
Sitemap generator*, custom errors*, redirects, and visitor blocking options available.Domains
Use external domains with our nameservers, create subdomains, and set custom DNS.Security
Set SSH access*, hotlink protection, free wildcard SSL certificate (or use own), and automatic malware scanner.
Stats And Logs
AWStats, Webalizer, bandwidth usage monitoring, and access/error logs.Leading In Technology
We use advanced and solid technology to deliver quality results. All web hosting includes:Intel Xeon Inside
Each web server has 2 Intel Xeon 12-core processors with hyper-threading. That's 48 logical cores per machine!Fast Memory
Each of our servers can access 64 GB of 3500 MHz DDR4 RAM. This makes them capable of serving any website we host.IPv6 And HTTP/2
Our network supports IPv6, the new standard for IP addresses. They also use HTTP/2, the latest revision of the HTTP protocol. HTTP/2 delivers faster websites (and happy users).Solid State Storage
We use Samsung Enterprise Solid State Drives (SDDs) with large capacities. SSDs provide faster access to your content, no need to wait for a drive to spin-up.DDoS Protection
Our network includes 1 Tbps+ anti-DDoS measures for free. Don't let malicious parties take your site down!
Off-Site Backups
In a worst-case scenario whole storage servers can fail, but you'll suffer no downtime. We make daily backups off-site for extra protection.Custom Optimized PHP
We've customized PHP-FPM, the server-side dynamic programming language module, as well as OPcache (a PHP caching tool) in order to get the most performance. Every website running PHP 5.6 or above will benefit from the boosts. But if you are running more recent versions such as PHP 7 or PHP 8 the improvements are even more significant.
Because we host your site on an auto-scaling load-balanced cloud of servers, we're not constrained by limits on processor cores, memory caps, number of processes, or bandwidth constraints. Your site will always be fast, even if a major influencer links you in their bio.
Fully-Featured And Free CDN
Our CDN nodes deliver high speeds wherever your traffic is coming from. (Learn More)
Content Delivery Networks make websites load faster for users around the globe. This is done by caching copies of your website data on servers at the network edge called nodes. If a user outside of the US accesses your site, a copy of your website is stored on a node closer to them. This allows your users to navigate your site more efficiently worldwide.
Our CDN offers the same edge caching features as providers like Cloudflare, but for free. We offer one-click activation, development mode, dynamic/custom cache settings, and the ability to purge the cache for instant updates. Problematic visitors can be blocked by IP address or country. You can also monitor performance with CDN statistics.
We make use of the same neutral data centers (internet exchange points) as AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and many other leading tech companies. With us you'll get enterprise-level connectivity included with your package.
Packaged with the CDN is our Web Optimizer (PageSpeed). This server module offers automatic image resizing, image compression, next-gen image formats, code minification and combination, lazy loading, and, if that overwhelms you, a one-click option.*Enterprise Level Security
Secure hosting keeps you safe against harmful web attacks. Same time, money, and your reputation with our free security features. (Learn More)
Malware can compromise your website and give criminals access to your site's sensitive information. We scan all of our websites every day for common malware. A detailed report is always available on the Control Panel. If you've discovered malware you'll need to update your software and delete any compromised files. Once you've done so, you can re-scan right away.
Since Google updated its take on sites not serving HTTPS, SSL-TLS certificates have become an integral part of web browsing. Depending on the nature of your site, you may be legally required to have one. We partner with Let's Encrypt to make every site HTTPS compatible for free. Our free SSL certificates are wildcard, so you can secure subdomains. (Requires using our nameservers)
Our US data center is ISO27001:2013 certified. There are 24-7 security on site, photo ID and swipe card entry, CCTV inside and out, gated access and seure perimeter fencing, and redundant and uninterruptible power supplies. All backups are stored remotely. It's also PCI Compliant and passes PCI-DSS audits.
All e-mails and forwarders, both sent and received, are scanned for viruses, and spam-like characteristics. At the network level we employ anti-spam deny lists from Spamhaus, Invaluement, and Barracuda Networks to reject mail from known spam networks.
Two-Factor authentication is available as an added security option for both Control Panel and SSH access. Our two-factor authentication uses TOTP apps run from your phone which provide you with a time-sensitive single-use code.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks flood the server with requests which obstruct regular visitor requests from coming through. We provide 1Tbps+ anti-DDoS protection that filters out malicious traffic.
Our Web Application Firewall protects your website software from being hacked. It blocks suspicious web activity, including form requests. It inspects every HTTP request for SQL injection, trojans, cross-site scripting, path traversal, and more. This occurs at the edge of the network, before your web app executes, and takes less than a millisecond. We regularly update the rules from commercially available sources.
Our platform includes a protection feature that monitors all common website log-in attempts to your website. It does this by utilizing Google's latest reCAPTCHA tools to route out automated and potentially malicious requests, including brute force.
You have many options to set custom rules of your own to protect your site. You can block visitors by country or IP address, implement a website directory password manager, lock down FTP (which is secured by TLS), establish CDN security headers, and check file permissions all from within the Control Panel.100% Renewable Energy
Green Energy
All our hosting is powered by 100% renewable energy. That means your site is too!
Green Hosting
Our auto-scaling cloud hosting only uses the resources it needs, so no energy is wasted.
Green Data Center
Our data center has an extremely low PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of 1.12.
* the definition of unlimited is bound by our Acceptable Use Policy.
** supported domain not included with package purchase.
*** Lifetime deal lasts as long as existence of company/service.
Eligible for one shared hosting package only and does not include any upgrades to other platforms,
including VPS or Cloud Server in any form (both voluntary and required).
The Results Are In
Tina Holley, The Fabric Nook
Owner of TinasFabricNook.comSupporting The Creative Community
Committed To Open-Source
Novelty Factor Hosting is part of Original Pursuits LLC's "Be Gay. Do Crime." initiative. This means that profit from the hosting service will be used towards developing programs, services, open-source tools, and other materials to help empower creative individuals in their endeavors.
This includes helping fund the following Original Pursuits LLC projects:
How To Program Anything
(A Computational Foundation)
