Website hosting

First of all - what is web hosting ?

Web hosting is your "home" on the World Wide Web. Your web host is providing you with the means to have your web site on display 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. To do this yourself would be very expensive as you would need to be connected permanently to the internet and you would need to provide enough bandwidth for tens, hundreds, and possibly thousands of visitors at the same time. It would also require a lot of maintenance such as hardware and software updates, and most importantly, security. You are effectively renting a portion of hardware and a permanent internet connection that your host maintains.

What other services can I expect ?

• Helm control panel: An intuitive, user-friendly control panel helps you find your way around and perform basic admin tasks.
• Livestats Web statistics: A comprehensive Web marketing tool, Livestats helps you analyse your Web traffic, track campaigns and create custom reports.
• Performance servers: Servers in our hosting infrastructure are highly specified and built to perform dedicated tasks, ensuring they operate efficiently and effectively
• Backups: A backup of changes to your files is made twice-daily and kept securely, off-site, for a period of two weeks.
• Firewall protection: The server your site is located on is protected by unified threat management devices, providing both packet level protection and intrusion detection technology
• Resilient and reliable: Unfortunately hardware failures do occur. To ensure any impact to your site is kept to an absolute minimum, we invest heavily in resilience and standby hardware throughout our hosting infrastructure, from network access to the server component level.