We believe that web hosting is more than just providing web space and
FTP access. Our aim is to provide individuals and businesses with
everything they need to express themselves on the internet, be that
through an idea or selling goods and services. Whatever you want to
create a website for, be it a small family photo album or a full powered
data base driven ecommerce website, your choice of web host is
essential. The right web host will make the difference between a slow
clunky site that has regular down time and a site that is always
available and blisteringly fast!
6 reasons to choose us for your web hosting
 |
1. Quality hosting
Our purpose built web hosting infrastructure is
unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability.
|
 |
2. Excellent customer service
Our support database provides the answers to the majority
of web hosting related questions and if you need to get in touch we are
on hand to answer any questions you may have.
|
 |
3. Value for money
Because all of our hosting technology has been developed
by us in-house we don't have any expensive licensing fees to pass on to
our customers. That means we can offer you more for less!
|
 |
4. We put you in control
We believe in developing highly automated systems giving
customers complete control of their web hosting. Our web hosting control
panel is one of the most advanced available today.
|
 |
5. You can grow with us
Our web hosting is ideal for a beginner starting their
first website through to SME's demanding their own powerful ecommerce
solution.
|
 |
6. Constant Monitoring and Security Upgrades
We take our customer's security very seriously and all
software is upgraded within 24 hours of new patches being released.
|
Our hosting technology
 |
Platform
We only use Dell servers in our web hosting platform. Our
platform is designed to be highly redundant and all data is stored in
network disk arrays.
Data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in
the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve
data to the servers with no downtime. Each array is also backed up each
night to a separate backup cluster which is then written to tape and
stored offsite.
|
 |
Data centre
We utilise uninterruptable power supplies and an n+1 generator setup
to ensure constant and clean energy to our infrastructure. The data
centre is protected by fire suppression, monitored by CCTV both
externally and internally, has 24x7x365 onsite security and the building
is surrounded by an 8ft perimeter fence.
|
 |
Security
We are automatically informed of new security patches via our vendor.
Patches are applied within 24 hours. Our own platform is scanned each
month for application vulnerabilities and we use a network scanner to
identify weaknesses in our network.
|
Managing your website
Our control panel is one of the world's most advanced web hosting
control panels currently available. Here is a quick summary of the great
features available to our web hosting customers...
- Easy to use file manager
- File backup & restore
- Webmail and POP3/IMAP
- Web stats & logs
- Google SiteMap generator
- MySQL and phpMyAdmin
- Schedules tasks
- Full Ecommerce software
- One click install scripts including WordPress
- Check your account performance at a glance
- Download log files
- More than we can list here!
iPhone control panel
Customers can also manage their websites and hosting accounts on the
move with our exclusive iPhone control panel which has all the same
functionality of the standard control panel. This is free for all our
web hosting customers.
- Manage your domain names
- Manage all your web hosting accounts
- Log in to your webmail
- View the system status updates
- View your Webalizer analytics statistics
- One click install CGI scripts such as WordPress
- View your invoices
- Backup & restore your website
- Conduct a WHOIS search for a domain name
- Set up scheduled tasks
- ...and much more!
We give you more!
We want our hosting customer's websites to be a success and with this
in mind we also provide our hosting customers with one of the biggest
CGI script libraries in the UK including one click install WordPress,
Joomla, phpBB, BuddyPress, OpenX & Drupal.
 |
WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software
available today! It's easy to install and use and will allow you to have
a great looking blog in minutes.
|
 |
BuddyPress is a suite of WordPressMU social networking
plugins and themes to empower you to create your own social network.
|
 |
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content
Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for
everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
|
 |
phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly
customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB3 has a
user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration
panel, and helpful FAQ.
|
 |
Drupal is a free software package that allows an
individual or a community of users easily to publish, manage and
organize a wide variety of content on a website.
|
 |
Openads is a hugely popular advert server designed for
web publishers. It gives you the tools you need to make the most from
online advertising. With Openads you will be able to manage
sophisticated advertising programs and stay in control of all the
advertising on your websites.
|
| |
& much more!
|
Web hosting terminology
New to web hosting? Here are some of the most common terms used...
Bandwidth
A term used by web hosts to describe how much data can pass from the
server your website is hosted on to people visiting your website. This
includes the files that make up your website as well as any data
downloaded from databases or media files.
ccTLD
A country code top level domain name. These domain names are
associated with a country or geographic location e.g. .co.uk (UK), .fr
(France and .cn (China). The ability to register these domain names from
another country depends on the registrar's rules. For example, co.uk
has no restrictions whereas .it (Italy) demands you are based in Europe.
Domain Name System
The system that maps domain names to the corresponding machine's IP
addresses. This system is essentially a phone book that translates human
friendly names into computer friendly numbers. Because this information
is stored across multiple computers any updates to a domain (including
registration and ownership details) can take up to 48 hours to work its
way across all of them.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Once you are ready to see what your website looks like online,
uploading the files to your web space is really easy and is often as
simple as clicking, dragging and dropping. The method you will use to
get your website online is called File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Don't be
put off by the name, all this does is take the files from your computer
and put them on to the web host's server for people to access. Simple!
In order to do this your web host may offer an upload function though
your account with them, but that means you have to log in every time. A
quicker alternative that most people use is FTP software. Some HTML
editors come with this built in (e.g. Dreamweaver & Microsoft
Expression Web) but even if yours doesn't there is the industry standard
stand alone (which is free) to download called FileZilla.
HTML
HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) is the first layer of a web page
and deals with the content (the text, any lists, tables, quotes...).
LAMP
LAMP is an acronym used to describe a set of open source software
used by many people and businesses to save money and to prevent platform
lock-in.
Linux: Operating system
Apache: Web server
MySQL: Database
PHP: Program
MySQL
MySQL (owned and developed by Sun Microsystems) is the world's most
popular open source database. It is also part of the open source
software stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
Sub-Domain
Sub-domain names are domains that are part of the parent domain name.
They are free to set up and can be useful if you have areas of your
site you want to categorise e.g.
dictionary.domain.com, thesaurus.domain.com
TLD
Top Level Domain Names have no association with any countries and
were amongst the first to be created. E.g. .com, .net, .org.
Web Space
The amount of space allocated to your website by a web host to store
all your files and data. The more web space you have the more
information you can store.
