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-
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 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.
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
is a suite of WordPressMU social networking plugins and themes to empower you to
create your own social network.
! 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.
is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-
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.
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.
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 web site. 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-
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-
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MySQL
It is also part of the open source software stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
Sub-
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.
Manage your domain names
Sub-
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.
MySQL (owned and developed by Sun Microsystems) is the world’s most popular open source database.
