Who we are

We are a very diverse group that has many years in the web hosting industry. We believe that everyone should get great customer service. We believe you should be able get help managing your website. over the years we have taken hundreds of thousands of technical support calls. A lot of customers have asked us “who can help me with my site?” We believe that there should be no line drawn between your webhosting company and your website designer. We offer managed web hosting for customers who need updates, and help with their hosting account. Need a link updated on your site? Need help setting up a new email account ? Our managed service is what you need when you need help and want to spend time running your business.

Why us

Our prices are competitive. We offer basic webhosting as well as managed web hosting. Need technical support for an hour ? Need help installing or updating wordpress ? Need to understand technical terms ? We have you covered. When it comes to FTP, wordpress, PHP, mysql, bandwidth, phishing, spam complaints, domain registration. Don’t worry about not having all the answers, we are here to help you out.

Our Story

Marie was the name of our relative who was killed in a domestic violence altercation in October of 2006. Her name was Danielle Marie. A percentage of all our sales go towards helping charities. We believe that even $1 can help someone else in need. We will donate 5% or more of our profits to charities that help many causes.

Our Support Guarantee

We want to make sure that no matter what happens you get personal and processional service.  We monitor our services and are very passionate about providing a great quality of service to our customers. Unlike other hosting companies we are proactive not reactive. We have an easy to use support system at http://billing.solarblu.net/client/ this will allow you to pay your bills, submit tickets and upgrade your account features.  We may be a new company but we are not new to the web hosting industry, contact us if you would like more information by emailing sales@mariehosting.com

 

 

 

After creating more than 700 WordPress websites, and WordPress templates we have learned a lot about migrating HTML websites to WordPress. I have personally migrated hundreds of HTML websites to WordPress, Created the WordPress theme and updated the websites to keep existing ranking in Google. When you are thinking of moving your Website to WordPress to make your life easier there are a lot of things to take into consideration. When you update the DNS to a new hosting provider or location you need to have all your ducks lined up to not hurt your website. Using 301 redirects will help redirect clients who have existing bookmarks to the correct locations, permalinks are a practical way to migrate HTML pages to more SEO friendly URL’s. This will also help let the Search Engines reindex the content to e new locations, moving to WordPress alone is known to give previous HTML only websites a bump in the search Engines.

Some other benefits to having a WordPress websites ? ability to update menu items, static Page content and add new images, video and content without having to contact a web developer. The ability to easily integrate Social media into your new website, customizable contact forms, easy to add galleries, and more.There are a ton of plugins and features for WordPress that require little technical knowledge to configure.  Tired of waiting for Google Analytics to update to see who was on your website, there are a few plugins to help you monitor traffic.

I love migrating websites to WordPress. One reason is I like a challenge, the second reason is I love giving customers the control over their website.  So if your thinking about moving to WordPress give us a call today! Once you migrate your content to WordPress you will enjoy your website more than ever before.

 

 

Recent issues at your current wordpress hosting company have you down ? Mariehosting.com will help you migrate your shared hosting wordpress website to mariehosting.com free of charge. Sign up for an account and then submit an email to tech support and we will be more than happy to help you migrate your website. We are experts in wordpress hosting, wordpress web design and more. We are unable to transfer email accounts directly we recommend that you use pop3(instad of Imap) and download all your existing email, If you like to use Imap you can resetup your email box as imap and resynchronize email to the new server. Let us know when you would like us to migrate the site, as it can take up to 48 hours for the new DNS to resolve, we want to make sure the process goes smoothly with no stale data, or downtime.

Here are the steps we take to migrate your existing wordpress website.
1. Export data in phpmyadmin. In order to do this we will need any hosting account information you have access to; control panel login, ftp logins, and mysql information, if you would like us to attempt to transfer your email accounts you will need to provide email addresses and passwords, or we can reset this information for you.
2. Compress wordpress and website files.
3. Import wordpress files to new server.
4. Import database to new server.
5. Configure wordpress site using temporary cpanel user address.
6. Verify installation using temporary cpanel user address.
7. Recommend client updates dns, nameservers to the new hosting account. Let the client know the database, email, mysql database migration process is completed. (checklist with items completed to the client.)

*After updating the dns it can take up to 48 hours for the new nameservers and DNS to propagate the internet. At this time email, and mysql information may become “stale” or out of date.

If you have cpanel hosting currently, we have resources to migrate the account easier then the above steps. We will need your cpanel login information for the current hosting provider in order to migrate your account from one cpanel server to another.

If you are changing hosting companies and need help migrating to a hosting provider that is not Mariehosting.com please contact solarblu.net and they will help you migrate your hosting account to a new provider for a small fee.

I was asked the other day to explain some of the core differences between our web hosting services and the other web hosting companies that offer Web Hosting. For starters, any hosting company with a Cpanel and fantastico liscense can provide you an install script for WordPress. This is not for the faint at heart. We install WordPress for you.

	Mariehosting WordPress Hosting	Other Hosting Providers
WordPress Installation	We do it for you	Use their control panel and setup your own database, bind user to database and install WordPress.
WordPress Themes	We include themes we create in-house	None, or themes that 100 other hosting companies are also including with their hosting packages.
WordPress Support	Extensive	None, go ahead ask them even basic WordPress Questions.
WordPress Plugins	We include WordPress Foundation Plugins 40+ Plugins to help you get started. Add, remove or activate them to your discretion, or ask us for help choosing the right set of plugins for your website.	None
WordPress Optimization	We have optimized over 600 websites for SEO Readyness.	None
WordPress Backup	We provide a specific type of backup for WordPress websites with our management package.	A Bloated version of cpanel backup you have to setup yourself and pray it works. In an emergency it would be tedious and time consuming for a novice to find what they need to fix their website.
WordPress Emergency	We can help you get out of a few tricky situations, such as password lockout, or basic WordPress configuration issues.	No Support, the majority of these companies would not have the technical knowledge to reset your WordPress password for you.
WordPress Support Experience	We have been hosting and developing WordPress websites since 2004.	Varies but most hosting companies have NO Real World Experience creating WordPress websites, or support WordPress clients with the variety of issues we have resolved over the last 10 years.
WordPress Development Experience	Almost 10 years and roughly around 600 websites have been created for our clients in different industries.	0 WordPress Development projects, if the hosting company is a development house then their years in the hosting industry would be in question.
Hosting Experience	Our hosting background starts in 2004 and is very extensive, we have helped over 250,000 customers with common web Hosting issues since then.	Ask them.

We provide web hosting on the WordPress platform. We have been helping WordPress hosting customers since 2004. We create our own in-house themes to use with our Web Hosting packages if you would like to purchase a template, or get custom wordpress design we offer that through our parent company.

We have put together some basic themes to help our clietns get started, if you would like to purchase these starter wordpress themes for your own projects please visit our WordPress Themes Store. These starter themes are designed for developers to be able tochoose one to get started on a new WordPress website. These themes provide the core WordPress CSS, Images and code required to start a basic WordPress theme. These themes are designed to help you choose a layout or color option with your client. You would then be able to hand code the additional features, or landing pages that your client needs. These themes are also great for starter small business websites. These themes have been designed by our lead developer who has created websites for over 600 websites for many different niches. If there is a design you like and want some additional features let us know and we can point you in the right direction.

Choosing the right theme is just the beginning, after that you need to choose the right plugins. Out of all of those plugins where do you even get started ? We have helped you out with this issue as well. We have a bundle of Recommended WordPress Plugins we include with our hosting pages base installation, you are free to activate, configure or delete the plugins.

Need to know how to setup your permalinks, sitemap, and general blog settings ? We can help you out with those types of things too. We offer -la-carte services for our clients. You can get free advice, paid support, or monthly membership into our WordPress management. We also have WordPress Training  for sale, this first installment is a quick quide to WordPress.

Getting a WordPress website for your business should be easy right ?

Get hosting with Mariehosting (which includes free domain registration), we setup your WordPress website for you, and you can login and choose a theme, or purchase an existing template. Then you let us know if you have any questions.

 

 

Hi there,

It has been a long April of getting things together for our company. I have been working on a few new websites to roll out for clients, some new WordPress Hosting accounts and some new WordPress Themes for Mariehosting.com clients. Sounds great right! New features to add to Advanced theme, new support options for existing customers as well as ways for designers to get a hold of our design department when they need assistance too. WordPress Hosting is one of our businesses but we primarily have been focused on web design especially wordpress websites.  I have created some new forms to streamline some support requests. We like to help almost everyone out with general WordPress Support requests. So feel free to use our new form if your looking for WordPress help.

If you are looking for a WordPress template for your small business website, corporate website, law firm website, please feel free to check out our WordPress themes Store and our Free WordPress Themes that are included with our hosting packages.

This E-book will show you the basics of the WordPress Dashboard. It is great to go through this book on your first day and learn where everything is in WordPress. After that you can use it as a reference guide should you get lost inside of WordPress.

Topics include:

Getting Started With WordPress

Introduction to the WordPress Dashboard

An Introduction to Posts and Pages

Managing Media in WordPress

An Introduction to Widgets and Sidebars

An Introduction to Theme Friendly Footers

Managing Menus in WordPress

Searching and Adding Themes for WordPress

Shortcuts for WordPress

 

 

 

WordPress Themes – You need a simple WordPress theme for your project or new website please give us a call. We create custom WordPress themes for our clients as well as WordPress hosting support. Our Lead Developer Timothy Rhoads of Solarblu.net has created over 600 WordPress themes. Try us out today Use our new WordPress Support Form to order a WordPress Theme and see how easy it is to get a basic WordPress website up and running.

A basic WordPress theme consist of a Header, footer, sidebar, and article area. We have the ability to add other features if you have the desire or budget for these types of feature requests. We also provide PHP, MySql and WordPress programming through our Parent company Solarblu.net.

If you think your website is ready for the Search Engines, think again. Have our experts review your website and let you know if you need SEO Readyness. A WordPress Update provided by our technicians that will help resolve some common setup errors that will hinder your SEO Readyness.

Need E-commerce ? Yes, we can help you with that too. We have created and implemented these types of websites for different industries, check out our web design portfolio on Solarblu.net.

 

 

 

 

What are the hardest things about starting a business online is who to choose for your hosting company.At Mariehosting, we make that part easy. We provide WordPress hosting, free templates, recommended plug-ins and everything you need to get started with your new WordPress online business website.Want to sell something online, not a problem! Marie hosting makes it easy to get your first e-commerce website off the ground in a matter of minutes.

At Mariehosting we take care of all the intricate set up steps required to get a WordPress website online. We install WordPress, MySQL, plug-ins, templates and everything you need to get started. We also offer customization and configuration options to help you be search engine ready. Our search engine ready is a 15 point inspection that make sure that your website is correctly configured for search engines to find your website and list them in the various search engine.

We have been hosting and developing website since 2004. We have taken over a quarter of 1 million technical support calls helping everyday customers such as yourself get their website started. We have Handled all types of questions from Email setup, MySql access to viewing how much traffic you have, we have the answers you’re looking for. We provide regularly updated WordPress tutorials and videos that help you understand the ins and outs of WordPress making you up more successful small business owner.

We provide WordPress management that allows you to talk to a WordPress developer and find out how to solve some of your intricate issues he may be facing on your new business website.

Now that we’ve solved the hard part which is finding the right hosting company to help you with your new adventure, we can help you create the content you need for your website.We let you know what the difference between pages and post star, which plug-ins can help me with social media, the correct way to set up your Google analytics account anymore.We are the only hosting company to take the can-do approach to WordPress web hosting for small business websites.

Is our live chat find out if there are any special offers that you can apply to your new hosting account thank you for choosing Mariehosting!

Are you trying to find out if WordPress is right for you ? Here are some of the basic features of WordPress websites.

WordPress Themes and Templates

WordPress is a core program that runs on PHP and is installed on a Linux web hosting account. This program allows you to install templates or themes that change the look and feel of the website. A WordPress website is PHP that gets its information from MySQL, you update the database when you make changes through the WordPress dashboard, change settings, create new posts and pages and more. WordPress themes and templates are created by professional WordPress developers. WordPress themes can be a basic website with a header, footer, sidebar, content area for articles. You would create populate the content with posts and pages. You can have an advanced WordPress theme that has specifically designed pages called page templates that are designed by a graphic designer. You can also have a multitude of features such as contact forms, shopping cart systems, lead generation forms and more. Additionally you can have a fully designed website for the homepage and innerpages, this is usually created by a graphic designer and then passed on to a developer who know how to take PSD’s and turn them into WordPress page templates.

WordPress Plugins and add-on features

You have the ability to install a multitude of WordPress plugins as well as have features created for you through the WordPress Codex. We include about 40 plugins with our web hosting package that allow you to take part in social media, share content to social media, Search Engine Optimization and configuration, Video Embedding,  add items and content to widgets, e-commerce, Maps, event scheduling, 404 and 301 redirection, traffic logging, post views, XML Sitemaps, Post RTF add-ons, newsletter signups, user management, blog subscriptions and more. Some themes have additional features that help you add content and make changes to your WordPress website such as CSS colors fonts and more.

WordPress Ease of Use

WordPress is designed to be easy to use, no matter what theme you have. The backend of WordPress is the same basic structure enhanced further by activating plugins and theme customizations coded by developers. We provide Free WordPress video tutorials and help to customers who need it, and advanced training to customers who need to use WordPress to accomplish everyday tasks and job functions. We have provided technical support to thousands of customers since 2003 and would love to help you learn and use WordPress.

There is is a new toolbar at the top of your WordPress Dashboard and when you are logged in and viewing your website. This toolbar has a a few standard options and a few that are created when you install plugins that are optimized for this new toolbar.

 

 

 

This new Toolbar allows you to easily access your WordPress Dashboard, See New Comment notifications, plugin and Core WordPress update notifications, add new content including pages, posts and media and the ability to edit the page or post that you are currently on.

To enable this menu option throughout your website you need to go to the profile option for your account. To do this on the top right of the Dashboard when logged in you will see the following menu:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click Edit My Profile

 

 

 

 

 

Select the checkbox to enable the option, and hit save.

 

Thats it! You will now see the new toolbar throughout your website. If you do not you may need to contact your WordPress Theme Developer. Be sure to rate our tip