Self-serve website and domain name hosting comes with online and phone support provided by our host, and is loaded with features. Simply visit our online store to place an order.

If you prefer to deal with MoreThanSolutions directly, our custom web hosting package is designed to provide a lot of features at a modest cost.

• $195/year
• Unlimited email accounts, FTP, e-mail Forwarding, autoresponders, databases, etc.
• Web based CPanel admin, PHP, CGI, MySQL, and free pre-built “Fantastico” software suite
• Plenty of disk space and transfer

Some examples include:

Extremely-targeted FaceBook adverting campaigns for as little as a penny for every 200 impressions to a highly targeted audience that you choose.

Facebook page (public profile) setup and management including FBML boxes (Facebook Markup Language), layout, posting of images and content, custom promotion programs to collect fans, various means of fan engagement, and ongoing page-related brand consulting as needed.

Twitter promotion services are available such as establishing a Twitter profile with custom background, generate list of people to follow, training in Twitter use and management tools TweetDeck and HootSuite, what to tweet, retweets and replies, automating announcements of blog entries and FaceBook status, list of search terms for “listening” on Twitter.

1. Never open attachments (this includes joke emails) under ANY circumstances UNLESS someone is sending you a file that you WANT on your computer AND you are expecting that file from that person. If someone sends you a file that you are not expecting be suspicious and DO NOT OPEN unless you are sure it was really from them (and not a virus using their email address). See below for particularly dangerous file types. This goes for files sent by instant message software as well.
2. Be sure that any critical information is being backed up routinely – to a CDROM/DVD or to another hard drive, perferably automatically and daily.
3. If you suspect you have a virus, they can disable the anti-virus software you have installed, so in this case do a manual virus scan at Housecall, or Norton Anti-virus Scan.
4. If you are on cable internet, make sure file and print sharing is off and you are running a firewall unless you are behind a router (and even better – get a router – they are cheaper than recovering from a virus).
5. Do not visit websites from spam email advertisements.
6. For Word attachments you can use Wordpad (included with Windows) to open them and this will display almost all advanced formatting in Word, but will not allow viruses to run. To do this, save the attachment then hold down shift and right click on the file and “Open With…” then select Wordpad.
7. Go to www.windowsupdate.com regularly and download all service packs, critical, and security updates (you may have to reboot several times) – you need to do this EVEN if you subscribe to automatic updates. You also need to visit www.officeupdate.com (separately).
8. Run anti-virus software, such as Avast (free). Be sure to have it updating automatically every couple of days and scanning daily.
9. Use a tool such as MailWasher (FreeWare) to intervene before a virus even makes it to your inbox. This particular tool has the added feature of you being able to bounce emails back to spammers which is the best way to get off of spammers’ lists.
10. Use a tool such as Spybot Search and Destroy (FreeWare) or Ad-Aware (FreeWare) to remove SpyWare from your computer – ideally, run both.

MoreThanSolution: We were able to address all of the items on Allison’s home computer – in less than two hours. We removed some programs that started up automatically, using system resources, but that Allison never used. We showed Allison how to clean up and organize her files. We added anti-virus protection and set it up to update itself automatically. And finally, we set up a simple backup system consisting of installing a small spare hard drive and writing an automated task to back up everything of importance: Allison’s documents, emails, contacts, and internet favourites. Since it is physically on a separate hard drive, Allison is protected from not only accidental deletion or over-writing of files, but also from hard drive failure.

The LIFE Seminars website is actually the reason MoreThanSolutions was started. LIFE Seminars had a hard time finding a computer consulting company they could trust and that could offer a wide package of services. When we found that out, we decided we should make one.

Client says: “I feel so relieved to know that my work is secured. Even though I spend hours everyday on my computer there is so much that I don’t understand about it. If my computer had crashed before, I would have lost everything so it felt like I was walking on a tightrope. The reorganization of my programs and files has saved me a ton of time. Such a tiny investment for such an important part of my working life!”, Allison Rees.

Some of the website services we offer include:

• planning, design and maintenance
• content management systems (for blogging, updating, and promoting your own site)
• electronic marketing, search engine promotion, and FaceBook advertising
• database and other programming – PERL, Java, PHP, ASP (VBScript), CGI, SQL
• website and domain name hosting

Our focus is on useful, content-driven sites with professional layout.

For more examples, please visit our testimonials and links to websites by MoreThanSolutions consultants on the side menu.

For more information, please visit our photography and scrapbooking site (this will open in a new window).

1. Website design involves planning the content of your website, as well as the look and feel – we provide these services at hourly rates.
2. Domain name hosting gives you a custom name for your website, like morethansolutions.com – we can arrange this for you, costs range from $10 – $30 per year.
3. Website hosting involves maintaining the computer that actually responds when someone tries to visit your website.

MoreThanSolutions has been doing website design since 1997 and domain name/website hosting since 2002. We offer website hosting ourselves so that our web design clients have reliable hosting available to them with excellent features at an affordable price.

MoreThanSolution: We have been able to address all of the client’s needs, without them having to go looking for specialists in each of the different areas. Through MoreThanSolutions, First Metropolitan has had access to over a dozen different professionals, assigned in each case to match the best consultant to each job. This has allowed the client to meet all of their computing needs within a limited budget.

1. .exe .bat .com .vbs .pif .scr are program files and should only be opened if someone is actually sending you a program (which is rare); .zip files are compressed and can be any type thus can also be risky
2. .doc .xls .pub .ppt .mdb are Microsoft Office files and should only be opened if someone is actually sending you a file
3. .gif .jpg .png are images and .txt and .rtf are text-only files and are your safest bets (as long as you are up on your windows updates and the extension is the LAST few characters of the file);
4. .pps and .pdf are presentation formats which are generally safe (but you should still save to desktop and scan before opening)

• The best option is to use a learning filter like K9 that learns from its own mistakes as you correct it and results in a custom spam filtering system for you. After 3 weeks of use, I found this program filters ~500 spam messages correctly per week, with only 3-5 corrections (spams not identified as such) needed per week to keep the filters up to date and zero legitimate emails accidentaly filtered. Note: you will need to set up a mail rule to filter your messages into a different folder.
• Set up email filters using unwanted keywords and subjects to sort emails into a “likely spam” folder – you can check this occasionally to ensure legimitate emails did not get filtered unintentionally
• Filter known email addresses into a “safe” folder
• Block senders
• Fight back and report spammers with Spam CSI
• Hide your address with Spam Motel which is of limited use depending on how you use your email. There are other ways of hiding your email address, including replacing email links on your website with contact forms. Search on google to be sure someone isn’t publishing your email address on their website!
• Change your email address and notify your friends, then use spyware removal tools from the start and make sure your email address isn’t on any websites. Set up an automated response from your old address to phone and obtain your new address.
• Server side filtering – depends on your email host but effective methods like procmail and SpamAssassin may be available.
• Make spammers remove you by bouncing emails back to them with MailWasher – note this can have unwanted side effects (check with your ISP if they recommend use of MailWasher or not)