Hosting services

	Quality hosting Our purpose built web hosting infrastructure is unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability. Give UK visitors to your website a faster experience and benefit from an advantage in UK search engines.
	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.
	Value for money Quality UK based hosting with personalised customer support and great value packages including market leading, totally unlimited Pro Business.
	We put you in control We believe in providing our customers with full ownership and control. Our web hosting control panel is one of the most advanced available today.
	You can grow with us Our web hosting is ideal for a beginner starting their first website through SME's to large organisations demanding their own powerful ecommerce solution. Our packages can be upgraded with a host of add ons to cater for your needs as your business or organisation grows.
	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. All websites situated in state-of-the-art secure UK data centre, manned 24/7 for peace of mind.

 

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.

 

Hosting Control Panel

The Digital Nomads control panel provides you with all the tools you need to make the most of your hosting account.

 

Files

We provide you with full access to upload and download your website's files with our easy to use file manager.

 

To ensure you never lose any of your work, backing up and restoring your website can all be done in just a few clicks with the files stored on your local machine.

 

Email

We offer great email functionality including forwarders and autoresponders. Set up multiple addresses and access via your email client of choice and keep everything synchronised across different devices including smartphones, with the use of IMAP. Also access your mail from anywhere over the web using one of the most powerful and flexible WebMail systems.

 

Web Stats & Logs

Check the performance of your website and automate the creation of a Google site map.

 

Web Tools

The 'Web Tools' area provides you with access to a raft of great features for those with a bit more technical knowledge than the average user.

 

E-commerce

Our ProBusiness hosting is fully ecommerce enabled and comes packed with advanced features and scripts.

 

CGI scripts

Our customers can choose to install as many scripts as they want from one of the UK's most comprehensive list of one click install scripts.

We 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 and website software available today! It is easy to install and use and will allow you to have a great looking site in minutes.
	BuddyPress is a WordPress social networking plugin that can be used to build a 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.
	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.

 

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 Backup & restore your website Conduct a WHOIS search for a domain name ... and 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 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, for example .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)

Uploading and downloading files to your web space is really easy and is often as simple as clicking, dragging and dropping. The process involved is called File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Don't be put off by the name, all this does is allow you to transfer files between your computer, where you can edit them, and your hosted server space, where people can access them over the web. Simple!For beginner's it is entirely possible to build a website using a script e.g. WordPress and to manage the content from within the platform chosen. To perform more advanced editing and customisation it sometimes becomes necessary to use FTP. Our hosting accounts include a security lockdown feature which you will have to open from within your online control panel, before you can access your files via this method. There are a number of FTP software solutions but the industry standard (which is free to download) is 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 etc.).

 

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 systemApache:Web serverMySQL:DatabasePHP:Program

 

MySQL

MySQL (owned and developed by Sun Microsystems) is the world's most popular open source database. WordPress uses a MySQL database in addition to the WordPress core files.

 

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.

 

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