Below are some of the many benefits of choosing Gro-pro as your website partner that we hope you will consider when you compare our proposal to our competitors:
- Our website platform is much more than a CMS
All major website vendors offer a Content Management System (CMS) that makes editing your website easy. Ours goes further for you by providing you with drag and drop image and file upload, and many other easy to use features. The real star of the show is the applications that give your website the functionality you desire, without raising your hosting or development costs. All of our applications are included free with our hosting, and they are all easy for your staff to use. ALL of our customers get ALL of our applications. This makes our hosting plan the best value in the market.
- We include more applications for your project
Lots of project we build includes the following application suites at no extra cost;- Separate Secure Staff Portal Website (Intranet) is included free.
- Meeting calendar system with dedicated search and file areas for agendas, minutes, packets, audio, and video files.
- Form System
- Form to email, form to PDF, form to database, excel exporter - all built-in!
- 311 Request Tracking Systems.
- GIS mapping system that may integrate with ESRI.
- Facility Mapping.
- Economic Development Mapping.
- Online Bid and RFP Management System.
- Portal for Citizens and Vendors.
- Mass email system.
- Emergency alert system.
- We offer better website hosting that is more secure, flexible, and reliable - all at a lower cost
- 100% uptime guaranteed - We utilize world-class hosting and DNS service with a zero downtime guarantee and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to credit you in case of any downtime.
- Attack resistant - Our hosting is more reliable because it does not utilize static IPs for your website. Our competitors do not offer this, and that is why their servers have been brought down by DDOS attacks recently.
- Security everywhere - all domains (and sub-domains too) that we host are secured for you with SSL security certificates at no charge.
- Faster pages and document downloads - We utilize a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for caching all of your static website files. This greatly speeds up your website, is included free, and protects your website against attacks.
- No storage limits - We have designed an auto-scaling storage system so that you no longer need to worry about storage limits with your website(this depends on the agreement and payment plan requested by the client).
- Better uptime with redundancy everywhere - our web servers utilize an auto-scaling infrastructure that adds new servers in minutes as demand increases. The entire environment is cloned with a hot backup that is ready to deploy at a moment’s notice.
- We offer hosting plans
- One year fee for ALL applications.
- No "maintenance fees" or other surprise fees.
- No per-user fees.
- Multi-year pricing plans are available - just ask us.