Hometown News Hosting

Our-Hometown, Inc. supplies newspaper website hosting that includes news and advertising conversion services. We focus on making our customers’ lives easier and profitable. Every week, we process about 3,500 pages of our newspaper customers’ content that includes over 6,000 articles, 7,500 display ads and tens of thousands of classifieds.

Our-Hometown, Inc. provides three primary service areas to the newspaper industry.

For newspapers looking for a complete easy to use website:

For newspapers with an existing website they are happy with but want to reduce the effort required to maintain it or add a highly profitable subsystem:

  • High quality news conversion from PDF files to HTML delivered in an XML envelope for upload to news websites without the hassle of cut and paste or low quality/high effort feeds;

  • ROP display advertising solutions that deliver high value through four high-volume exposure methods for use on existing websites; Our testimonials speak for themselves.

Our-Hometown, Inc. has been dedicated to continuous improvement of our products and services since our founding over 10 years ago. The result is highly reliable and functional products that focus on the reader, advertiser value and publisher profits, rapid turn-around times, and world-class hosting services.

Ease of use is another one of our tenets. We expect to increase our rate of improvement and never allow our products to be hard to use or provide low value.

Recently added newspapers

05/15/2010 - Andover Voice of Andover, KS
04/01/2010 - West Seneca Bee of West Seneca, NY
04/01/2010 - Orchard Park Bee of Orchard Park, NY
04/01/2010 - East Aurora Bee of East Aurora, NY
04/01/2010 - Cheektowaga Bee of Cheektowaga, NY
03/31/2010 - Clarence Bee of Clarence, NY
03/30/2010 - Ken-Ton Bee of Ken-Ton, NY
03/18/2010 - Lancaster/Depew Bee of Lancaster and Depew, NY
03/17/2010 - Courier Journal of Florence, AL
02/13/2010 - Cincinnati Herald of Cincinnati, OH
01/21/2010 - River Current News of Duvall, WA
01/08/2010 - Hometown Focus of Virginia, MN
01/08/2010 - Norfolk Boomerang of Norfolk, MA
12/18/2009 - Jewish Press of Tampa and Pinellas County, FL
10/29/2009 - Mariposa Gazette of Mariposa, CA
10/12/2009 - The Cord of Blinn College, TX
10/01/2009 - Currents of Fairfield University, CT
09/16/2009 - Kingsville Record and Bishop News of Kingsville, TX
09/15/2009 - Clarion News of Clarion, PA
09/15/2009 - The Derrick of Oil City, PA
09/02/2009 - Sanilac County News of Sandusky, MI
08/31/2009 - The Banner of Brown City, MI
08/30/2009 - Tri-County Citizen of Chesaning, MI
08/27/2009 - The Burton View of Burton, MI
08/27/2009 - Grand Blanc View of Grand Blanc, MI
08/27/2009 - The Davison Index of Davison, MI
08/27/2009 - Lapeer Area View of Lapeer, MI
08/26/2009 - Huron County Press of Bad Axe, MI
08/19/2009 - The County Press of Lapeer, MI
07/14/2009 - Plymouth Review of Plymouth, WI
07/02/2009 - Punta Gorda / Port Charlotte Florida Weekly of Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, FL
06/24/2009 - The Sun of Hummelstown, PA
06/19/2009 - Spencer Evening World of Spencer, IN
05/28/2009 - Rockdale Reporter of Rockdale,TX
05/16/2009 - Cook County News Herald of Grand-Marais, MN
05/13/2009 - Tribuna of Danbury, CT
05/12/2009 - Stanwood/Camano News of Stanwood, WA
04/09/2009 - Lexington Leader of Lexington, TX
04/09/2009 - Putnam County Courier of Cold Spring, NY

Complete customer list

Hometown Buzz

Our-Hometown Releases New Template
July 14, 2010

Our-Hometown, Inc. introduces its first completely new template designed specifically for the Drupal content management system.

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Study: Publishers Charging Too Little for Online
July 6, 2010

Our-Hometown, Inc. released a study this week titled, Theory of subscription pricing
for weekly community newspaper websites
, which indicates many newspaper publishers utilizing paywalls may be undercharging readers for website access.

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Production Performance Studies Show Impressive Results
June 23rd, 2010

During internal studies of our performance we discovered that we've converted 596,504 newspaper pages from PDF to HTML in the last three and 3/4 years.

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Two Our-Hometown Customers Win Awards
June 14th, 2010

Our-Hometown, Inc. would like to congratulate The Lakota Country Times on recently winning the 2010 South Dakota Newspaper Association’s award for Best Newspaper Website; and The Trinity Journal on winning first place in the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest (4,301-11,000 circulation category).

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Our-Hometown Adopts Drupal as its Content Management System for All Newspaper Websites
January 25, 2010

Our-Hometown has spent the last several months transitioning all of our customers to Drupal, a new, state of the art, open source content management system.

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The Derrick's Pay Wall a Success
January 25, 2010

One of our newest customers, The Derrick, has been featured in Editor & Publisher as an example that pay walls in the community newspaper business can be a success.

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