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Hosting, Email and Domain Names |
 WEBSITE
HOSTING
- from £40.00 per year
Includes:
Unlimited hosting on Windows or Linux servers
Unlimited traffic (no caps/maximum)
FTP account
ASP, PHP, Perl CGI and SSI scripting
Who would choose this?
Someone who is designing their own website and wants server space to
enable potential customers to view it on the world wide web.
 MANAGED HOSTING - from £80.00 per year
Includes:
Everything with Website Hosting above (except FTP account)
Annual update of items such as address and contact details
Annual update of search engine optimisation
Annual general update of website
Changes to email accounts at any time throughout the year
Who would choose this?
A customer who has had a website designed by us and also wants us to
manage their website for them.
 WEBSITE
HOSTING WITH SITEBUILDER - from £55.00 per year
Includes:
Everything with Website Hosting above
Access to Sitebuilder software
Who would choose this?
Someone who wants to design their own website but does not have the
technical knowledge to do so and also wants server space to enable
potential customers to view it on the world wide web.
 HOSTING
OPTIONS
Email facilities - £20.00 per year
FrontPage Server Extensions
- £25.00 per year
ASP.NET
– 30.00 per year
MySQL Database
– from £30.00 per year
Microsoft SQL Server databases
– from £199.00 per year
Password protected folders
– from £15.00 per year
Website usage statistics - £20.00 per year
 EMAIL
- £35.00 per year
Includes:
Two years registration of a domain name (co.uk)*
Unlimited email accounts
Direct access to add, delete or change email addresses
Access to Webmail
POP3 & IMAP access
Mail forwarders
Autoresponder
Who would choose this?
Anyone who wants to send and receive email.
 EMAIL
OPTIONS
Advanced mailbox
– £16.50 per year
Exchange mailbox
(includes Exchange Direct Push with ActiveSync) -
£100.00 per year
If there is an option you require that is not listed, please
contact us for
further details.
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This is where the files and images that make up your website actually reside.
It is important to have a host with an excellent reputation for 'up time' (this is a measurement, as a percentage, of how many times the hosts master computer fails, causing your website to become temporarily unavailable).
There is no limit to the size of the website you can store on this facility.
You can choose whether your files will be stored on a Windows or a Linux server.
There is no limit to the amount of times users can view your website.
The is sometimes referred to as bandwidth. Some hosting companies restrict the bandwidth you can use per month.
FTP meanss 'File Transfer Protocol' and refers to a method of transferring your files to an internet server (computer).
You need an address, user name and password to upload your website. These are all supplied with this option.
The uploading can be done through your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox etc) or via Windows Explorer.
These are all types of coding language. When you design your website, the types of pages you create may need different types of support.
For example, pages that end with .php require support for php.
Sitebuilder is easy to use software for creating your own website. The following features are included:
- Either use the simple "Express site" wizard, or create a design and website structure from scratch.
- Hundreds of ready-to-use design templates.
- Huge graphics archive and customisable options.
- Website automatically uploaded and published.
If you are using Microsoft FrontPage to design your website, you will need FrontPage Server Extensions to use some of the facilities within FrontPage, such as hit counters and email forms.
Create sophisticated web applications, with ASP.NET, the latest web development platform from Microsoft. Drawing on the benefits of the .NET Framework 3.5 and the Windows 2003 operating system, ASP.NET offers:
- Rapid application development and deployment.
- Your choice of C#, J#, C++ and VB.NET coding.
- Just in time compilation: optimised code performance and portability.
- Rich output caching: eliminate duplicated script execution and database access.
- Dynamic updates: upload new components even while your application is running.
- Target multiple devices with one application.
- 'Drop and run' application deployment.
- Comprehensive XML web services support.
- Use FrontPage extensions with Visual Studio.NET or FrontPage.
- DSN or DSN-less connections to ODBC data sources.
- Connect to SQL Server databases on your account or located remotely.
The MySQL relational database management system runs on our dedicated Dual Intel Xeon database servers, freeing processor and memory of resource-hungry web server software.
With InnoDB, MySQL is a fully transactional database server, offering:
- 150 MB with each database
- standard SQL support and MySQL extensions
- extremely fast operation, through memory-based hash tables, thread-based memory allocation and optimised one-sweep multi-joins massive scalability (according to your Fasthosts database storage allocation)
- transaction-safe (ACID compliant) storage engine
- commit, rollback, and crash recovery
- multi-user concurrency and performance
- Oracle-style consistent non-locking read in SELECT statements.
Microsoft's powerful SQL relational database management system runs on our dedicated Dual Intel Xeon database servers, freeing processor and memory of resource-hungry web server software.
Developed with real-world business applications in mind, MS SQL Server 2008 is a fully transactional database server.
- Advanced data warehousing functionality.
- Data mining.
- Sophisticated data analysis.
- Indexed views for maximum efficiency.
- English queries.
- Rich XML support.
- Graphical Enterprise Manager client access.
Enabling you to restrict access to specific areas of your website with a user name and password.
This is access to your email wherever you have an internet connection.
You can send and receive email just by entering an address in your favourite browser (user name and password also required), making it ideal for when you are away from the office or home.
POP and IMAP
You can connect to your Advanced or Standard mailboxes using both the POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). These methods of retrieving your emails work in slightly different ways.
POP (Post Office Protocol)
If your email software is set up to use POP, each time you connect to your mailbox your computer will download all the emails within the mailbox on our servers and create a copy on your computer. By default, it will then delete the mails from the mailbox on our servers to free up space for new emails to arrive.
- Advantages The fact that the emails are stored on your local computer is useful if you like to keep all your emails, as you can store as many as you like (providing that you have room on your hard drive). In addition, if you then want to view your emails at a later date, when you have no internet connection, they are on your computer ready for you. Once you have downloaded your emails, POP is the quickest way of reading them at a later date.
- Disadvantages If you have a number of computers all accessing the same mailbox, this can become confusing. If one computer downloads your emails and removes them from the mailbox, then you attempt to retrieve your emails from a second computer, the emails will have already been downloaded and deleted, so there will be no emails for the second computer to see.
IMAP (Internet Messaging Access Protocol)
If your email software is set up to use IMAP, each time your computer connects to the mailbox it will show you which emails are in the mailbox on our servers. It does not download the emails to your computer, and they will remain in the mailbox. If you then decide to read an email, it will download that particular email to your computer, leaving a copy within the mailbox. Also with IMAP, your sent mails and draft emails are sent from your computer to the mailbox, essentially synchronising your local computer with your mailbox.
- Advantages This means that if you have multiple computers connecting to the same mailbox on our servers, each computer will see the same thing in your inbox, sent and draft folders.
- Disadvantages You are now storing all your emails within the mailbox on our servers, rather than downloading them to your local computer, so you will need to keep an eye on the mailbox space you are using. In addition, as all emails are stored online, rather than on your computer, reading emails can be slower than POP, and you may not be able to read some emails while not connected to the internet. See our article for tips on keeping a local copy of your emails.
Mail forwarders redirect email from one address to another. For example, if you setup a forwarder from info@mydomain.co.uk to go to me@hotmail.com, any mail addressed to info@mydomain.co.uk will arrive at me@hotmail.com
Fowarders are also useful when you sign up with a website or service that may send you unwanted email sometime after you have received the genuine message. These websites always ask for an email address to send a confirmation message to.
Subsequently, you can be bombarded with unwanted email from them or 'associated' companies. You can setup a forwarding address especially for this 'signup' (e.g. downloads@mydomain.co.uk forwarded to realaddress@mydomain.co.uk), wait for the genuine confirmation message and then delete the forwarding address once you do not want any further contact from them.
Email autoresponders automatically reply to any email they receive, using text that you have written, before passing it to your mailbox as normal.
You may want to use email autoresponders when:
- you are out of the office
- you want assure the sender that you have received their email.
The Advanced Mailbox combines every feature you need for professional email:
- Roaming SMTP (Outgoing Mail Server).
- Virus scanning & Spam filtering included.
- 1GB mailbox space - ideal for large attachments.
- Individual mailbox control panel - assign your chosen level of admin and configuration rights to mailbox users.
- Industry-standard POP3.
Roaming SMTP (Outgoing Mail Server)
Roaming SMTP enables you to send mail using email software on your won computer, however you are accessing the internet. With many Internet Service Provider's, their outgoing mail server is needed to send email, but with ours you are not tied to a single broadband connection. For example, if you use email software on a laptop, you can send emails using different broadband connections when you are on the move, without having to change any settings.
Virus scanning
Using respected, industry-leading virus scanning software, our mail servers prevent harmful, malicious emails from reaching your computer(s). Accurate interception is ensured by regular, automatic updates of both the scanning engine and the virus definition file.
Viruses are intercepted in real-time, following heuristic scanning of all inbound and outbound email, to identify and remove suspect attachments and malformed messages. Even archived files are searched, ensuring your email is trustworthy.
Spam filtering
Multi-level, Bayesian spam filtering traps unwanted, unsolicited emails. Each email is checked against a set of criteria and depending on your chosen filter strength, is determined to be spam or legitimate email. You choose whether the filter adds "SPAM" to the front of suspect emails' subject lines, or deletes the email entirely.
Deploy the full collaboration and email power of Microsoft Exchange (a version of Microsoft Outlook on-line), without the outlay or administration of your own server.
Why choose Microsoft Exchange?
- Free Microsoft Outlook software download with each mailbox
- Virus and spam protection
- 2GB storage per mailbox
- Real-time Exchange "Push" mobile access
- Public folders - create as many as you need
- Shared calendars - make and check appointments with colleagues
- Shared address books - includes automatically populated global address list and offline address books
- Outlook Web Access - full benefits of Outlook, using a web browser
- Outlook Mobile Access - access using compatible mobile devices
- Mix POP3/IMAP and Microsoft Exchange mailboxes on same domain
- Hosted in a dedicated UK data centre with premium UK bandwidth and expert network engineers
This is your unique identity on the internet such as www.bbc.co.uk. The actual domain name is the part after www.
Generally speaking, the shorter the domain the more memorable it is. We can help you find a suitable domain.
Other available domains:
.com, .net & .org registered for up to 10 years at a time - add £4.00 (1 years registration)
.eu registered for 1 year at a time - add £4.00 (1 years registration)
.info & .biz registered from 2 to 10 years at a time - add £15.00 (2 years registration)
.name registered for 1, 2 or 10 years at a time - add £4.00 (1 years registration)
.tv registered for up to 10 years at a time - add £30.00 (1 years registration)
.mobi registered for 2, 5 or 10 years - £30.00 (2 years registration)
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