SWGY Web Hosting

SWGY, Inc. offers website hosting. For most cases, hosting is $25 per month. The websites we host strive for minimal javascript - zero in most cases, no third-party services, and no hotloading of assets. These goals reduce the amount of information that is shared with you advertisers regarding your website’s visitors. When you allow us to guide your technology and design choices, you can be sure you will have a website that is extremely fast to load, usable on even the most constrained devices, and safe for your visitors.

Highlights

  1. Hosted on U.S. servers physically owned by SWGY, Inc.
  2. Administered personally in data centers by SWGY, Inc. staff.
  3. 99.99% uptime service level agreement.
  4. Customer requests handled within one business day.
  5. All content is encrypted to prevent unauthorized disclosure, even to data center staff.
  6. Security-conscious hosting environment prevents your web presence from being defaced.
  7. You will speak with a living breathing person located in your country when you need help with your service.
  8. HTTPS through TLS (the “lock icon”) included free - ask why :)

SWGY, Inc. Websites

Some examples of the style employed by SWGY, Inc. Take note of the time it takes for the website to load from an incognito / private tab. Take a look at the page source. Compare this with your current hosting environment.

Website URL Description
The Canopy https://www.the-canopy.org Veteran Paratrooper publication
RIS https://www.ris-sec.com Cybersecurity consultancy
504th PIR Association https://www.devilbrigade.org 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment association
82nd Airborne Division Association https://82.sw.gy 82nd National Association Website

These websites built are proudly built without:

  1. JavaScript
  2. Third Party Tracking
  3. Cookies
  4. Hot Loading Third Party Assets

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JavaScript

JavaScript is a dynamic programming language supported by all major browsers. Unfortunately, JavaScript has found as many avenues for ill as for good. To protect themselves from these maladies, browsers can be configured to refuse to run JavaScript. This can lead to errors or loss of functionality in some websites - but not this one!

By disabling JavaScript, you can be sure there is no malware or unwanted software running because you visited a webpage.

Third Party Tracking

Many website are built using “tracking pixels” and embedding interactions such as “liking”, “favorite-ing”, or “star-ing” from social media sites. These technologies are used to track visitors as they stop by the website, logging the time, device, location, and anything else accessible in a profile about the visitor. All of this just because your website visitor wanted to learn more about you! Unacceptable!

The tradeoff is visibility on visitors. This website cannot confidently say, “we get 1,000 unique visitors per month - more than 134 from the state of Idaho!”

This is an acceptable trade.

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of text information a website asks your browser to store so it can later retrieve it. Sounds simple enough. As with everything on the web, this has been bent and abused to form a durable and malicious tracking system.

This website does not need to store anything about you, dear visitor. This website is to provide information, not collect it.

Hot Loading Third Party Assets

Websites are built using a number of resources - text, images, fonts, and scripts (no scripts here though!). These resources can be served from the same webserver that sends you the text, or they can be “hot loaded” from a third party. This means the web page loads and then says, “hey, grab these images from this other server over here, and grab the fonts from this other place over here, and grab this script from yet another server.” This leads to slower load times caused by increased round-trips to the network. Additionally, the third party servers are informed about your visit and the asset you are requesting. This can provide some coarse-level tracking data to that server.

This website serves all of its assets from its own servers. No third party is required for anything.

Privacy Policy

Additional details about how your data is handled can be found in the privacy policy.


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