website hosting

Once you have bought a domain name, and have your website designed, built and ready to use, it needs a home and address on the internet in order to be viewable. This is website hosting. A quick look around the internet reveals a multitude of companies offering hosting, and a huge range of costs and options. Our standard hosting package includes 250Mb fast web space, 2Gb bandwidth per month and 10 POP3 email boxes, with basic spam filtering as standard. This specification is more than adequate for most web sites, and we can offer either Unix or Windows platforms. Our web hosting hardware is securely housed in state-of-the-art datacentres. With tightly-controlled access, uninterruptible power, protection from natural disasters and multiple points of connection, your data stays safe and your websites are constantly available.

Costs for hosting. Again these vary hugely. There are offerings from £24 to £240 per year for standard sites, and considerably more than this for e-commerce sites. Our costing is £120 per year for most sites, and included in this is telephone support, help setting up email, and occasional minor text amends to the site as well. For instance, one of our musician clients sends us his updated gig lists every two or three months and we upload and style these for him at no additional charge. The very inexpensive hosting offered by many companies is functional but largely unsupported, and it assumes you have a level of expertise to manage your site yourself. Also, available support is generally on premium rate phone lines. All calls to us are standard rate. If you are happy to manage your own site we can discuss lower hosting charges.

For more technical information on our hosting, please go to technical bits.