Hosting your Web site (web space)

Hosting your web site is one of the important considerations you need to take into account when setting up your web site. We have spent many years hosting web sites and have always kept a strict control of quality whilst keeping good value for money.

What are the best features to have in a web hosting company?

It is important to have a good hosting facility, as if your site is unavailable for periods of time you may be dropped from search engines or lose valuable customer visits. A reliable web site host is central to a good Internet web site promotion campaign.

What makes us different from the rest?
We offer excellent value for money and a high standard of customer support, both pre and after sales. Importantly, you can phone us if you have problems or questions on a local rate number. Call on 0800 619 1852 to discuss your needs or contact us now.

We have a variety of web site hosting options. Click on the various options to see details.

Support

You can speak with us directly to place an order over the phone or to help you with problems, rather than e-mail support offered by other suppliers.

Real customer contact is important to us in maintaining a high standard of service and customer satisfaction. We are flexible and can often help advise you on problems not directly related to your hosting.

If you prefer to speak with a human straight away, rather than read on, please call free on 0800 619 1852 (UK land lines only). We are available 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday and there is no obligation on your part by contacting us.

International callers / trade / mobile, please call 01279 725345.

Look at this 'host' of services:
To view our hosting services in depth, click on each of the links below:

UNIX Web Space
POP3 Mailboxes
Unlimited Autoresponders
Unlimited Email Addresses
Unlimited Multi Recipient Addresses
CGI Scripting in Perl & C
Email Virus Protection (option)
SPAM Filtering (option)
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions
Graphical Web Site Statistics
Web Based Control Panel
webmail
Search Engine Submission
Telephone Technical Support
Online Knowledge Base
State Of The Art Data Centre
Daily Data Backups
Multiple High Capacity Connections
7 Day Money Back Guarantee (money back excludes charges for domain names)

Extra bandwidth
500Mb Extra data transfer capacity is available @ £10 per month required. Accounts are either upgraded to the next user level or have the appropriate charges levied per month of excess traffic, as required by you.

You already have a domain name - no problem, we should still be able to host your domain name! We'll tell you what you need to do... click here.

Acceptable use policy - Hosting.
We have an actively enforced policy for acceptable use of hosting so as to avoid slowing other web sites on the server network. Please click here for details.

Servers are UNIX as standard but we offer Windows 2000 servers also, at extra cost.

With our business hosting you can have unlimited pop3 mailboxes, auto responders and mail forwarding and default routing. Maintenance of these is available through your web browser, via a secure connection.

A variety of free CGI scripts are available as standard and you can either request us to install these for you or install them yourselves using our control panel facility, accessed via a secure link using your web browser. The CGI scripts include a powerful form facility, to allow you to collect information via your web site, a guest book with administrative facility and other facilities including jump menus.

You can point as many domains to the facility as you wish and we offer cheap domain names, for example £2.89 p.a. for .co.uk.

Please use our contact form to receive a quotation for web site hosting (please click here).

FrontPage 2000 Extensions
FrontPage 2000 extensions can be installed on any of your accounts enabling you and your customers to take advantage of the dynamic features and publication wizard in Microsoft's web page authoring software.

SSL Secure Server & PGP Encryption
Enable SSL secure transactions on your sites via our anonymous SSL server, securesiteserver.co.uk. Protect sensitive data sent in emails from your site using PGP.

Graphical Web Stats
View usage statistics for your web sites, see how many people are visiting your sites, where they come from, what search keywords they use to find you and more. You may also download raw log files for analysis using your own software.

Customised Error Pages
Replace the standard, uninformative page not found message of your virtual servers with a customised page of your choice encouraging surfers to stay on your site when an error occurs.

Password Protection
Restrict access to areas of your site, configure as many username, password combinations as you desire.

Databases

mySQL Database Server
Create and manage an unlimited number of mySQL databases for your own use or to resell to your clients.

Email

Unlimited Addresses
Configure as many email addresses at each of your domain names as required. Mail to any address can be sent either to one or more mailboxes on our servers or forwarded to an existing email address elsewhere. Mail sent to an address for which you have not configured a specific destination can be sent to a default catch-all location.

POP3 & SMTP Mailbox Access
Send and receive email using a mail client such as Microsoft Outlook. You can access our mail servers regardless of how you connect to the Internet overcoming the difficulty faced by many users of "wires only" broadband services which do not include access to an SMTP server.

Unlimited Auto Responders
Auto responders reply to incoming email with your predefined message instantly and automatically, ideal for informing people when you are on vacation or to reassure customers that their message has been received.

Webmail
Read your email and send messages from any computer with Internet access using our web browser based email client, ideal for accessing your email when away from your office or on the move. The client is unbranded enabling you to resell the service to your customers.

Other Features

The control panel is a web based administration interface which puts you in control of many aspects of your hosting. Instantly configure email and web site settings, view usage statistics, change passwords and view documentation.

Local Rate Dial-up
Business quality analogue and ISDN dialup Internet access via a UK local rate (0845) access number direct to our un-contended network. You can create an unlimited number of dialup accounts for your own use or to resell to your clients.

Exceptional Customer Support
We help to solve your problems and tend to your needs by telephone and email for no extra charge. Comprehensive, searchable documentation is available from your control panel.

Reliability & Performance
Your account is hosted on redundant, clustered servers. Data is protected by mirrored disks, daily tape backup and standby servers whilst uninterrupted connectivity is assured by our resilient network.

URL Submitter

Enter the URL of the page to submit and your email address and click 'Submit URL'. Your URL will be submitted to the search engines you select from the list.
URL
Email
Engines Altavista
Altavista UK
Infoseek
Google
Excite
Lycos
NorthernLight
HotBot

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